Insulin is cheap but diabetes is enormously expensive. Nytimes has an excellent series of articles http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907e2da1f30f9

Insulin is cheap but diabetes is enormously expensive. Nytimes has an excellent series of articles http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907e2da1f30f93aa35752c0a9609c8b63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=5 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907e2da1f30f... The articles describe diabetes patients as floating "shipwrecks": a rudder broken here, a sail there, no one at the helm. It's a good analogy because, when you have diabetes, almost anything can fail without warning.