Exactly--limb amputation, heart attack, stroke, and blindness.
That's where the government needs to focus over the next decade, making sure those people stay healthy. Otherwise, this not only threatens the sustainability of our health care systems across Canada....
We'll be in Newfoundland at the end of the month to release that model. It's by far the worst result in the country, and it will really threaten that province's ability to afford health care going forward if the province does not take aggressive action to stem the tide and to provide services for people living with diabetes.
In Alberta, for example, they don't cover test strips for people with diabetes, the means to be able to monitor their performance. That's one of the things the province needs to do.