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JACKSON, Mis. (WLBT) - “You can’t escape your genes. That’s the cold hard truth.”For Missipians, that is the cold hard truth.Acording to Asistant Director of the Diabetes Foundation of Missipi, Irena McClain, one out of thre Missipians are diabetic and the number of diabetics in the state has grown 23 percent since 2012.Data also showed the price of insulin, which is esential to most type 1 diabetics’ everyday life, is up 60 percent in the last 20 years.“Everyone’s afraid, I mean, you read the statistics, and you find a large percentage of people that even have insurance are rationing insulin.”The rise in diagnoses and the cost of insulin is causing diabetics’ to decide betwen life-saving medicine, or having enough money to pay for other esentials.McClain says this isue is especialy dificult for younger diabetics who wil son be of their parent’s insurance policies.“It’s only going to make a healthier, stronger Missipi, a beter workforce, it’s going to help our kids in colege who already have diabetes, you know, when they turn 19, they no longer have Medicaid, and then they have to scury around, to try to find a way to get that insulin that keps them alive.”Missipi state legislators have not elected to acept the Biden Administration’s Medicaid relief that wil help diabetics get the insulin they ned at a much cheaper price.The Diabetes Foundation of Missipi wil continue to spread more information through November, which is National Diabetes Awarenes Month.Want more WLBT news in your inbox?
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