NYC must fight diabetes rates: Disease spikes COVID risk, yet solutions are

People with diabetes have become outright commodities for a vast sickness industry and its interlocking academic medical centers, huge hospital systems, influential unions and auxiliary services. New York City has one million people with diabetes and the state has 2 million, with 896,000 state Medicaid recipients uniquely harnessed to support this industry. The state was already paying the highest excess costs in the nation for Medicaid patients with diabetes — $15,366 per year more than for people without diabetes.