re: #247 Obdicut

The incidence of type II diabetes is expected to rise something like 200% in the next few decades.

re: #233 SixDegrees

Many do go without, because it is a patchwork. Or they’ve never even been diagnosed.

Possible, I suppose, for Type II, which comes on gradually. I’m not familiar with it personally. Type I is also referred to as “sudden onset diabetes,” and in most cases hits the patient like running into a brick wall at top speed does - find and dandy one day, sick as a dog and near coma (if not already in one) within just a few days. Diagnosis is certain in such cases, although sudden death is also a distinct possibility, though not for lack of health insurance so much as lack of warning about what’s suddenly gone wrong with every system in your body.