Cory Booker: “Type 2 diabetes alone... costs US taxpayers $300 billion a…”

“Think about this. Nearly one out of every three dollars in the federal budget now goes to health care. Type 2 diabetes alone... costs US taxpayers $300 billion a year in direct medical costs. And that's just diabetes. Cancer rates up, dementia rates up, hypertension up, heart disease up, kidney failure, fatty liver disease in children, all of it skyrocketing.” (03:50–04:03)

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