This all sounds quite fair to me. True we cannot help falling prey to diabetes but there are some that work damn hard at working with the medical profession to get it under control and then there are others who so obviously do not. As is the case of some patients with lung cancer who wont give up smoking, liver disease who wont stop drinking, morbid obesity who wont stop stuffing anything and everything down their throats and wont or cant get off their rear ends at least once a day to keep mobile etc etc. Help should be for all at diagnosis and early treatment but in these days of financial combustion, those that 'obviously' do not play their part in the control and stabilisation/recovery of their predicament should have further treatment withdrawn. Look at George Best a while back. A lovely guy with a big big problem. Fell foul of the alcohol and had an organ replacement to save his life. It could so easily have been given to someone who would still have been alive with it now! It was wasted! I know this is a report about Hungary - but I feel this should be common practice worldwide! If you are told your going to die within the year if you continue to smoke/drink or whatever, you work at giving up don't you. If you don't then why should someone else be deprived of help whilst you waste it.

About 370 million people in the world are diabetic and about 1 billion have metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes. The cost of diabetes treatment and lost productivity is $1 trillion a year out of a world GDP of around $60 to $70 trillion.

It is easy to reverse pre-diabetes with a few simple steps:

http://www.diabetesrisk.net/

I think that almost everyone here is missing the point. Isn't it strange how we now so readily cast the first stone?
Because we live in a society that is easily swayed by Government "experts" (whoever they are), we "take our eyes off the ball", to coin a cliche, and allow ourselves to be manipulated into blaming a new "enemy" for our social ills, rather than see the true picture.
The fact is, that the "New Europe" needs to sort the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, in order to rescue the concept of the single currency, and all that it has cost, by cutting back on "unneccesarry" expenditure. In this case, diabetic people who happen to have a "poor diet". Poor diet is as a result of deprivation, as much as it is a result of affluence.
Wake up, you ignorant sheep!

I dont suppose any one will agree with me but the epedemic proportions of type 2 diabetes in the west is almost entirely due to the bad dietary advice promoted by our own governments. Eat lots of grain, healthy cerials etc. |But cerials convert directly into what? yes sugar. I have brought my own HbA1c level down from 15 to 6 by eating meat, eggs, dairy products and veg and by completely cutting out bread (whole grain or not) cerials and most carbohydrates.
The NHS advice is based on American research sposored by the American agricultural board who wanted to sell sell sell GRAIN and we swallowed it. (all puns intended).

one of the biggest causes of diebetes is the bad new varieties of potatoes they are full of swugar and the wrong sort of sugar the french are researching into this at the hospital in laval the new varieties are brede for quantity not quality
stick to maris piper, king edward ,majestic, diseree ,and you will be betterthe others are develped fom potatoes grown to produce sugar
also try and buy and use cane sugar not from beet or potatoes

My husband has been a type 1 diabetic for 25 years, since the age of 17. He eats a healthy diet and does a lot of exercise but for the majority of this time his blood sugars have fluctuated considerably giving him above average HbA1c results. HbA1c does not indicate what foods are being eaten, only what the average blood sugar of the person is over a period of time. He has been on many different insulins over the years and they seem to work great for a period of time and then his body stops responding so well to them, leading to the higher blood sugars. Despite seeing lots of different specialists, he is no nearer to getting his diabetes well controlled. At best it is adequate. Type 1 diabetes in particular is very complex, insulin dosages need to be adjusted according to what is eaten. One person may need to take a certain amount of insulin for a sandwich eaten, whereas another may need triple that amount. Its not an exact science and control will vary. How on earth can it be decided from the blood results whether someone is a junk food fanatic or whether they just are unlucky enough to have particularly hard to control diabetes?

My Grandson is Type 1 and needs insulin 4 times a day if he does not have this he will die as his pancreas has shut down, he is now 12 years old and been Type 1 since he was 7. He did not get this through eating the wrong things this is an organ in his body that has shut down through no fault of his own. I wish people would think before they start judging other people.

We the Enlish must be the laughing stock of the world it seems we can afford money for anything and everyone providing it's nothing to do with England or the English.I have no time for any individual or organisation even the government who suggests withholding treatment for any other reason than they have never paid tax or national insurance in this country.They are quick enough to treat those who have never payed a penny towards their treatment while those of us who have paid into the "the system"( In my case for 50 years) have to have the approval of a bunch of control freaks.Who I believe have no integrity or honesty as in taking money off us for a specific purpose namely treatment by the NHS then withholding that treat ment for any reason whatsoever namely drinking alcohol smoking or being obese but to name those" reasons"that come to mind easily thats before think of something else.THE ONLY FAIR OF DECIDING WHO GETS TREATMENT IS HAVE YOU EVER PAID ANYTHING TOWARDS IT?

You only have to go to the supermarket checkout to see who the candidates for diabetes are!

Is this not a form of pre-meditated murder against diabetic sufferers,

I cant help having type 2, i watch what i eat and drink, and it goes up and down. didnt get it till i was 48 always did the gym, sports, still got it,, it aint funny, god help them and if it ever happens here(GUY FAWEKES) and i will do it myself.

I have type 2 Diabetes as have been in a crash I can not do gym . You may be surprised how much added sugar is in most processed food these days even the ones that are so-post to be healthy as the one that is good for you stomach. there is natural sugar in fruit , vegetables all have different names Then there is added water to meat , ready meals loaded with extra salt and sugar cereals as well. Take away food the same there is a lot of rubbish out there pretending to be good food. If you are poor how are you going to buy better . Any government anywhere in the world the same targets the sick and the old . None of any world governments have done anything about the banks which made the fiance mess we have now and we are back in double dip recession.

That is the worst thing I have heard in a long time. Both my parents and my grandparents and three of my dad's sisters had type two diabetes and my brother now has it. The possibility of me developing the condition is greatly increased 'through no fault of my own' but if this was introduced I could be denied treatment if my sugar levels were higher than normal. This abnormality can be caused by other things other than poor nutrition, it can be caused by other medical treatments that diabetics and non diabetics receive from time to time. Also deny a patient insulin and you cause more medical problems, like kidney failure, heart disease, gang green, problems with eye sight, which will cost the NHS even more money to treat. Or would those other treatments also be withdrawn because they had had their insulin held back. Who are they to decide if a person is not following a healthy lifestyle, how dare they. My comments do not convey how angry I am feeling at this moment.