Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

Surprisingly, I'm with Ustwo here. I have a hard time caring about people with a disease they basically brought on themselves through excessive consumption, lack of exercise, and so on. It's really not too different from lung cancer or emphysema caused by smoking, or cirrhosis caused by drinking. These people knew the consequences of their actions.

So I suggest we take the same action we've taken with educating people about those diseases: let them know diabetes is a direct consequence of the choices they make not to take care of themselves. I think people see Type II diabetes as some kind of harmless, manageable disease, when obviously that is far from the truth.

Public education, not public-supported treatment, is the answer here.