[steveklabnik]

These things are never cut and dry. This is presenting these absolutely clear-cut stories, but it's not like this sort of thing is accurately tracked in any way.

One in four people who have diabetes report that they take less than they should due to cost. This has knock-on long-term health effects that can cumulate in an earlier death than would otherwise happen. Those effects will never be captured in the way that lightning strikes can be captured.

Others die who were never formally diagnosed, and so wouldn't be captured in statistics like this.

It goes on and on.