Whether by research or by training, I'm never going to argue against the value of having better and more current information. However, I am confident that any study you would do would find that people living with diabetes face significant barriers to accessing their medication, just as Ms. Harris indicated. We did a study in 2015 asking people about their ability to access medication, and 23% of people living with diabetes said they couldn't take their medications as prescribed because they couldn't afford them. We know that diabetes is not an equal opportunity disease. It clusters in low-income communities, and so a disproportionate burden of this very expensive illness is borne by people who can't afford to manage it.
On September 22nd, 2016. See this statement in context.