christel marchand aprigliano, she is the ceo of the diabetes patient advocacy coalition. our topic is the rising cost of insulin. we welcome your phone calls. if you are a diabetic or parent of a diabetic, the line is 202-748-8000, for those of you who aren't, 202-748-8002. some baseline figures on diabetes in the u.s. from the center of disease control, about 5% of people have diabetes. the pancreas doesn't make insulin or very little, so insulin is needed to be taken every day by many diabetics to survive. anrently, prevention is curable -- it is currently on an curable or unpreventable disease. 90% of theabetes, people with diabetes have this type of diabetes. the body doesn't use insulin well, it develops over many years and it can be delayed or prevented with a change in lifestyle. the average medical expenditure or people with diabetes about $13,700 last year, about 7900 of this amount was attributed to diabetes. more than 30 million americans have the disease. we welcome your phone calls and comments. we go first to albert in augusta, georgia. good morning. caller:

we are joined this morning from tampa by christel marchand aprigliano, ceo of the diabetes patient advocacy coalition. tell us your story, how you were founded and why. aprigliano, ceo of the diabetes patient advocacy coalition. tell us your story, how you were .ounded and why guest: we were founded for an half years ago because we found there was a gap in the policy area of diabetes. many other organizations, the

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at 9:00 a.m., christel marchand aprigliano talks about the rising cost of insulin. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ host: as more democrats join the 2020 demo -- presidential race, health care including substantially larger government programs like that to care for all are becoming key parts of their platforms. good morning and welcome to "washington journal" for tuesday, april 16. we begin the program taking a look at some of those plans and asking you if you would support or oppose a medicare for all type plan. here is how to be part of the conversation. if you would support that, call 202-748-8000. if you would oppose a medicare for all type program, that line is 202-748-8001. postsl also look for your on our facebook page, facebook.com/cspan. and send us a tweet @cspanwj. the issue came up last night during a town hall with bernie sanders on fox. we will show you some of his comments announcing the pla

then we will talk about the rising cost of insulin with christelle marchand of the diabetes advocacy washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. the complete guide to congress is now available. it has details about the house and senate for the current session of congress. contact and bio information about every senator and representative, plus information about congressional committees, state governors, and the cabinet. the 2019 congressional directory is a handy spiral-bound guide. order your copy from the c-span online store for $18.95. announcer: white house national economic director larry