| I used to use the freestyle and had to switch to a One touch because of insurance issues. Personaly, I prefer the freestyle system. while the Ultra-Smart that I have is very nice, there is one big drawback to it's testing method that Freestyle has taken care of. When the Freestyle obtains enough blood it then starts the test count-down, and not until then. I forget how long you have but if the first drop isn't big enough I used to just milk my finger more and add enough until it beeped. With the ultra-smart it starts the count-down the second it notices the blood entering the little cappilary. a lot of times it doesn't draw enough blood and the test fails. I wind up throwing away quite a few strips because of this. Except for that, I like both systems equally. Although now that I think about it the Freestyle I used took 8 seconds for the test and the ultra-smart only takes 5, but what's 3 seconds compared to the 2 minutes my first glucometer used to take back in '84! | 
