Good news!  Diabetics aren't dying nearly as quickly as they used to!  That's great - if your goal is keeping more people healthy and alive.

But according to my read of this article, a certain CDC researcher thinks it would be cheaper to just treat complications rather than prevent them...

“The good thing is that people with diabetes are living longer,” said one of the authors, Sharon Saydah, a senior research scientist with the C.D.C. “But people with diabetes are at risk for a number of complications — cardiovascular disease, lower leg amputations, kidney disease, eye problems, dementia and other kinds of disability. Preventing all of these complications means that we will have greater health care expenses for people living with diabetes.”

I wonder exactly how much my sight, mobility, and heart are worth to this lady.  I wonder what impact that arbitrary figure will have on my heath care in the future. 

Dead people are cheaper than live people.  They also probably make better company than Sharon Saydah.