Who is the leader of the Sugar Police in NYC?

NYC Department of Health requires clinical laboratories to report A1C (levels of blood sugar for diabetes) test results.
Who has been leading the sugar police in New York City (all boroughs)? It is Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since January 2002.(NYC DoH is one of the world's oldest and largest public health agencies, the Department has a budget of $1.5 billion and a staff of 6,000.)

Frieden implemented the smoking ban in the Manhattan, and has now decided that diabetes self-management is his next big cause for the welfare of public health. His work ethic and philosophies about public health are indeed honourable. But this new odd outreach programme for diabetes seems way off-the-charts for how far Constitutional boundaries are being pushed. Is this about finding the undiagnosed? Sort of, but it is also about checking on people with diabetes to see how their blood glucose control is being maintained. What is most disturbing is that Friedman doesn't feel that patient consent is necessary! C'mon - what has happened to the the radical, rebellious American voice. Does diabetes exclude you from putting up a fight for your rights! It is not as if the Department of Health is paying for your healthcare in return for the information. That would be a different story altogether!

Is this an infrigement on patient rights? Probably. What is the logic behind this? The following power point presentation states the reasons in 10+ slides: 1.) epidemic proportions of diabetes; 2.) annual cost to the City = 8.3 billion and 3.) public healthcare interventions will lessen the severity of the two former - population and cost.

Why doesn't the programme have a name? I find this strange! Why didn't Frieden's staff write a normal run-of-the-mill Press Release for public information. The New York Times story seems to be one of a handful of (non)official news sources of information. I spent an hour on the Department of Health's website and found nothing officially written about the Board's approval of the "programme" (which occured one week ago). I think there are a lot of questions that no one is asking. Is this new policy in keeping with Amendment XIV in the Constitution? It is so easy to allow healthcare to be the one area for the State (here the State of New York) to demand private information from it citizens. What's next? Was there or is there an AIDS programme like this? Even the American Diabetes Association is keeping quiet.

There is opposition:

Those opposed to the plan, including the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the National Lawyers Guild and the National Libertarian Party, express concern that the registry could lead to higher insurance premiums for patients or denial of life, health or car insurance coverage.

See story by Henry Goldman, Bloomberg News "New York City to Register, Monitor 500,000 Diabetics (Update2)"

The way I see it, this is a Constitutional issue that needs to be addressed by the United States Supreme Court.