In Episode #2: The Diabetic Case for Socialism, Nick & Dan discuss the current diabetes epidemic, the rising sentiment of some US citizens looking to the Federal Government for answers, and our prediction on how they might intersect.

 

Links to data discussed on this episode:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-24/spain-tops-italy-as-world-s-healthiest-nation-while-u-s-slips

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/worldwide-economic-burden-diabetes/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(17)30100-6/fulltext

http://www.diabetes.org/advocacy/news-events/cost-of-diabetes.html

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/communication-programs/ndep/health-professionals/practice-transformation-physicians-health-care-teams/why-transform/current-burden-diabetes-us

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-neighborhoods/how-neighborhoods-shape-life-with-diabetes-idUSKBN1F631X

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-healthcare-sweden-canada/

https://fee.org/articles/france-is-the-socialist-future-america-must-avoid/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_States

https://www.jdwoodstock.com/mycommonsense/you-have-been-selected-to-be-diabetic

https://www.jdwoodstock.com/mycommonsense/ascending-diabetes