Total costs—direct and indirect	$174 billion
Direct medical costs	$116 billion—after adjusting for population age and sex differences, average medical expenditures among people with diagnosed diabetes were 2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes
Indirect costs	$58 billion—disability, work loss, premature mortality

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Diabetes Fact Sheet: national estimates and general information on diabetes and prediabetes in the United States, 2011. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.

This is supposed to be my quote; the author just put it in a chart form. I have recently learned that people with diabetes have to pay almost two times more medical expenses than those who do not have diabetes. Endocrinologists make a big difference in a diabetic’s life, but so do their materials and necessities. Insurance companies are no longer providing central glucose monitors, (CGM), and are attempting not to cover test strips, but it is required of them to do so as of right now. The problem is that they are not covering enough test trips. Test strips may sound like they are not important, but really a diabetic uses them all of the time. If insurance companies manage to get it to where they do not have to provide money for test strips then the costs parents have to pay even more then what they already are.