Knock Knock Eye: Breaking down the American Diabetes Association Boycott

Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens · Oct 22, 2026 · 41m

This week I get into the No Surprises Act, starting with my own $20,000 out-of-network bill after my cardiac arrest and the nine-month fight to resolve it. The law was supposed to prevent exactly that, and from the patient side it works. But the arbitration system behind it is now processing millions of claims per year (not the 22,000 the feds expected), doctors are winning about 85% of the time, and insurance companies are lobbying hard to rewrite the rules.

Then the drama at the American Diabetes Association. The ADA published an editorial in Diabetes Care criticizing proposed NIH cuts…