The New York Times discovers a hard truth of American medical institutions . . . In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay . . . diabetes centers at hospitals are closing because they can’t make money even though the number of people with diabetes in the city is at epidemic levels (one in eight New Yorkers have diabetes and the city has over 2000 preventable diabetes-related foot amputations each year). The thing is that the hospitals and doctors make money treating the complications of the disease not through preventing them. So successful prevention centers will not make money and will close down. Sucks but it is reality . . . especially in profit-motivated healthcare (the current US administration is all in favor of this sort of mentality what with the push to privatize all health plans). One in eight New Yorkers have diabetes . . . one in eight . . . that is just so profoundly amazingly scary a statistic. See other issues of this week’s New York Times for more coverage of the diabetes epidemic.