Diabetes like an iceberg to sink Medicare, John Brumby tells conference

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FORMER Victorian premier John Brumby has warned that diabetes will "be to Medicare what the iceberg was to the Titanic" and a more costly problem for big business than workplace accidents.

Addressing the Securing the Future conference co-hosted by the Melbourne Institute and The Australian, he said that the major driver of health spending was usually preventable.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...tells-conference/story-fng387xs-1226509350709
 
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