Positive Results That Mean The Whole City Wins
I was reading an article today from The New York Times that brought good news about a program for people with diabetes in the town of Asheville. The article explains:
“In the last 10 years, the city of Asheville has given free diabetes medicines and supplies to municipal workers who have the condition if they agree to monthly counseling from specially trained pharmacists. The results, city officials say, have been dramatic: Within months of enrolling in the program, almost twice as many have their blood sugar levels under control.”
The good news is that not only has the program helped the people involved, it’s also meant that for every dollar spent on the program, the city has saved $4 on things such as dialysis and emergency hospital visits. That means the whole city wins, because the money saved can be spent on providing better health care services.
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