&gt; except the government paid the bill, not the patient, a bit more civilised but still the problem stay the same (...)<p>God I hate those moral high ground stances seeping everywhere in HN comments.<p>You think it&#x27;s more civilized, I think it&#x27;s barbaric to forcefully take something from someone. Just like that, you made it that much harder for me to take anything from what you&#x27;ve written.<p>&gt; (...) second, most people are uneducated about diabetes, they think it concern only fat people or other countries, and other BS like that (...)<p>And the NYTimes article you linked immediately after starts by saying &quot;The prevalence of diabetes has been rising in rich countries for several decades, largely driven by increases in the rate of obesity.&quot;<p>Are they totally clueless?<p>&gt;finally, why it is disgusting and criminal for pharma corp to make ppl pay for insulin ? it as simple as that: if you don&#x27;t take insulin you die, period.<p>Well, gee, it sure sounds like food, water, vitamins, or a bunch of other stuff that are sold for profit everywhere.<p>&gt;It&#x27;s not curable, there is no alternative diet, nothing, zilch, nada<p>Except that type 2 (the one that is the rise, by your linked article) is preventable. There is a high correlation between type 2 diabetes and sugar intake.