According to National Health Insurance statistics for 1998, expenditures for the treatment of diabetics accounted for 11.5 % of all health care spending, and the average disbursement for medical expenses incurred by a diabetes patient was 4.3 times that of a non-diabetes patient.
根據一九九八年健保資料統計，糖尿病人的醫療花費支出佔所有醫療支出的 11.5％，平均每位糖尿病患者的醫療給付金額是非糖尿病人的 4.3 倍。