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Diabetes is really rough on the organs. Especially once the kidneys go, you need dialysis 3 times per week and the treatment takes hours. If a substantial fraction of the population needs that treatment, it's going to be rough. Plus the eye surgeries for glaucoma, and other kinds of organ failure.

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> Especially once the kidneys go, you need dialysis 3 times per week and the treatment takes hours.

My grandpa went through this in 2020. He was a tough navy guy, and even he said "This is a half-assed way to live", stopped the dialysis, and passed away a few weeks later. Once you're on dialysis, there's not much of a chance of going back to a life without it.

can't decide if it's good or bad then that we somehow have universal care... but only for kidneys, lol https://www.npr.org/transcripts/131167638

Oh wow, thanks for the link. I had no idea that we covered kidney disease that way.

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