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Thread: Desperately wondering any cheap way to get hooked onto a pump besides going on insura

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10-25-2006, 09:42 PM

poodlebone poodlebone is offline

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JasonJayhawk

If you look at the actual design of the pump, the actual cost of manufacturing it is probably less than $50 of materials and foreign labor.

Aren't most of the pumps (except the Spirit) made in the USA? I remember seeing some TV show not too long ago that visited the Cozmo factory. Don't recall where it was, but it was definitely in the USA and the workers they showed seemed American to me!

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Type 1 dx 4/1987
Minimed Paradigm 722 6/2008 + CGMS
Minimed Paradigm 715 5/2005 - 6/2008
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Last A1c: 10/08/08: 5.6