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CNN's Health.com reveals to us that nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes, with another 57 million likely to get it in their lifetime.

But what they don't reveal is how affordable health insurance could play a part in lowering those numbers.

In their segment titled "8 common diabetes questions answered" they address a common concern among those at risk for this life threatening disease: how will I know if I have diabetes?

The answer is deceptively simple - you ask a doctor.

But what do you do if the lack of affordable health insurance in America makes that an impossibility? Of the 47 million uninsured Americans, how many of them will die from diabetes complications because they couldn't afford coverage?

Diabetes and its treatments cost us billions of dollars a year, but by making affordable health insurance available to citizens, those costs, and diabetes-related deaths, could be drastically reduced.