On 07/02/10, Jeff Snyder quoted Sean Dennis: Meter.

SD> That's one of the most expensive meters on the market.  Did your daughter's



Actually, she can use any glucose meter that she likes, but after using the
FreeStyle for so many years, she switched to the Accu-Check Compact Plus. It
may have had something to do with her insurance -- her employer switched
providers and health plans -- or it may be that the local SDA Clinic no
longer carries the FreeStyle. At any rate, she is working, and paid for it
out of her own money, so that is that. If she could afford it -- which she
obviously can't on a minimum wage job -- she'd go for an insulin pump as
well, instead of taking her daily injections.


SD> Because I'm insulin dependant (I take Lantus and Novolog), I can get as
SD> many strips as I need.  Veterans that are on pills only, on the other hand,
SD> get a single bottle of strips per month which I think is kinda pushing it
SD> if you want to get better control of your diabetes.


Being a Type 1, my daughter is also insulin dependent. She'd be dead without
her injections. My daugther also got screwed with her diabetes supplies.
When her company switched to a different health plan, she spoke with the new
insurance provider's representative, and she was assured that the insurance
would cover whatever amount of test strips she needed each month.

Well, lo and behold. The clinic began to hee haw around about it, and told her
that they would make a special case for her, since she has been going there
since 2001, and allow her to get one 100-count box of test strips every
fifteen days. However, the last time she went in, they told her that the
insurance only provides for one box a month, which is NOT enough for her to
maintain proper control of her diabetes. According to my daughter, she even
had the clinic contact the insurance honchos in the States, in order to make
a case for her, but they aren't budging. So, she gets one box of strips
through her insurance, and the other she has to purchase. So basically, they
told her one thing, but are now doing another, now that they have her hooked
on that insurance plan.

So yeah, we live in a real rip-off world!  :(



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