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"New findings . . show that Medicaid coverage had no detectable effect on the prevalence of diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, but substantially reduced depression, nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditures, and increased the diagnosis of diabetes and the use of diabetes medication among low-income adults."

MyHealthNewsDaily staff The percent of U.S. teens with diabetes is on the rise, a new study suggests. Between 1999 and 2008, the percentage of adolescents ages 12 to 19 with diabetes or prediabetes increased from 9 percent to 23 percent, the study found. Prediabetes is a conditio ...

Link to actual study: http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2011/04/04/db10-0979.abstract

If we do a book on public health, we should consider topics related to public health spending policy, like this one.