Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2019
FDA must fast track insulin for the millions of Americans living with diabetes
17 October 2019 - Diabetes is a disease which has grown to become a major public health crisis in the United States. In May 2019, the Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) reported that more than 110 million Americans are living with diabetes (30.3 million) or prediabetes (84.1 million).
On April 2, 2019, media group France 24 reported that insulin rationing in the United States has led to the deaths of at least six diabetics over the past three years. The Yale Diabetes Center states that one in four American diabetics are now rationing their insulin.
According to IBM Watson Health, the price of insulin in the United States jumped over 600% from 2001 to 2018. The American Diabetes Association estimates that diabetes accounted for $237 billion in direct medical costs, including an average of $9,600 per person in medical expenditures just for their diabetes care.
