Health Care Marketplace | Diabetes Cost U.S. $174B in 2007; Cases Continue To Rise

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"Diabetes cost the U.S. $174 billion in 2007 in both direct care and lost productivity, an increase over $132 billion in costs related to the disease in 2006, according to a report released on Wednesday by the American Diabetes Association, Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (Smith, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1/24).

About one million people are diagnosed with diabetes each year, the report said. The condition costs almost as much as cancer, which totaled $206.3 billion in 2006, but fewer people die from diabetes than from cancer, USA Today reports."

Way to go fat people!

If you are weary of paying for these diseases of choice, be heard.