Health Stats

Medicare Advantage insurers made nearly 53 million prior authorization decisions in a year. Most denials are never appealed, and the large majority of those that are get overturned.

The statistic that most American adults are metabolically unhealthy comes from a 2018 NHANES study, not from glucose monitors. Evidence that CGMs benefit people without diabetes remains weak.

The United States spent $14,775 per person on health in 2024, against a peer country average of $7,860. US life expectancy was 79.0 years, compared with 82.7 across the same countries.