Paying To Prevent Diabetes Is Cost Effective

Sixty million Americans, nearly one-third of the U.S. adult population, are pre-diabetic. A study published in the June issue of the journal Diabetes Care has found that it would be cost effective for Medicare to pay for diabetes prevention at age 50 rather than to deny prevention benefits until age 65 when many individuals will have already developed the disease

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