| It's not just diabetes, it's the entire drug industry. Why does Tube A cost $90 a tube but yet the same thing Tube B which is a generic of A cost $10 a tube? It's because there's little control and the drug companies can charge what they want since they know you need their products.
Take insulin for example....in the past 10 years insulin has more than trippled in price. Why? There's no reason for it. It's not like demand outweighs supply.
Why does that BG strip costs 75 cents each? There's no more than 2 cents put into it.
The answer is all because they can, and that's why insurance rates are through the roof and alot can't afford it. Yet the government wants to complain and "force" (Massachusettes) health insurance on everyone yet they have done nothing to the drug companies for price gouging, which is EXACTLY what they are doing and getting away with it.
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●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
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~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
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