Mrs. Antonia Ortiz has been dealing with diabetes for 42 years and injects herself daily with a dose to keep the level under control.
You eat breakfast like any other, when you eat another level then check again and that’s how the fight doesn’t end.
In Upper Manhattan, who, in addition to diabetes, has other health conditions, he visits his general practitioner.
Mrs. Ortiz has suffered from diabetes since she was 30 years old, a condition that is being seen more and more today.
“I’m also very careful when I eat, because you have to be careful with it, I like to eat a lot of vegetables, which mainly controls the sugar. If I eat rice, it already rises more. It’s the day I eat it,” said Ortiz, smiling.
“Before diabetes, the disease was born in people between 40 and 50 years old, and now there are children with diabetes, the work of obesity, overweight, inactivity, lack of education about eating food,” he continues. .
Even though Medicare has insurance, millions of Americans must pay for insulin out of pocket. However, with the high costs of this medicine up to $700 per month, it is not good for many.
Joseph Goris is a general physician and thinks prevention is better than cure;
And so they stop using medicine and the cost of the disease multiplies, because they will end up in hospitals, there have been serious complications, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, amputations, that is. It happened that the sad cost of insulin would benefit millions of people. “
Apparently, the pharmaceutical company LILY will reduce insulin prices in the United States by 70%.
The company’s announcement follows a long battle by US President Joe Biden to control drug prices.
Lilly records more than three billion dollars in profit from the sale of insulin in 2022
Dr. Goris says diabetes can be life-changing.
“When people are obese, you have to try to lose weight, because the most important thing is diabetes, once a diabetic patient, sometimes they are treated by oral medicine, sometimes they are treated. with insulin, but everything will require diet and exercise, as a way to help control diabetes, of course periodic and usual -ups”, Goris indicates.
And according to figures from the American Diabetes Association, there are at least 30 million Americans with the disease, 8 million of whom depend on a daily dose of insulin.
