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Diabetes is an expensive disease - Carolyn McClanahan
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This Is The Shocking Cost Of Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is all consuming. The stigma of misinformation. The inescapable quest for medical perfection. The 65,000-plus injections per lifetime (a lifetime which tends to be slashed 12 years from average as soon as you’re diagnosed).
The autoimmune disease takes hold of young bodies and never lets go. Without reason. And with no warning of the ever-expanding costs.
A day in the life of a diabetic is an uphill battle. One that requires constant cognizance of the individual’s food intake, energy output, blood sugar levels, general health, and equipment (glucose meters, needles, insulins, food) that keeps them alive.
I know because I’m one of the millions…
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Over-The-Counter T1D Challenge
Rob is going all-in for a mini-documentary series where he's going 100% on over-the-counter diabetes meds. As all of us living with diabetes know, diabetes medications and supplies are expensive. Unaffordably expensive, insurance or not. Rob felt, though, that while there's plenty of documentation out there about living life with diabetes on insurance, there's little to none regarding life without it, much less managing diabetes solely on over-the-counter supplies. So he's changing that.
A PWD's Personal Breakdown of Diabetes Costs
Not many of us have $11,000+ on-hand ready to drop for diabetes costs. So what do you do when your company's benefits change? Or you lose your job? Or insurance simply isn't cutting it?
Insulin Costs Are Skyrocketing. This Is Why.
For some, the cost of diabetic supplies – particularly insulin – can lead to negative health consequences. In the last several decades, insulin prices have skyrocketed.
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Depending on whom you ask, you'll get a different response for why insulin prices have risen so high. Some blame middlemen — such as pharmacy benefit managers, like Express Scripts and CVS Health — for negotiating lower prices with pharmaceutical companies without passing savings on to customers. Others say patents on incremental changes to insulin have kept cheaper generic versions out of the market.
The Strange Marketplace for Diabetes Test Strips
Some clinicians are surprised to learn of this vast resale market, but it has existed for decades, an unusual example of the vagaries of American health care. Unlike the resale of prescription drugs, which is prohibited by law, it is generally legal to resell unused test strips.
Managing The Cost Of Your Diabetes
The epidemic of obesity will only make these costs more staggering in the future. What can we do to improve these dreadful statistics? Importantly, if you have diabetes, what can you do to cut the cost of your illness?
11 Ways to Save on Diabetes Supplies
Don't let diabetes supplies, such as test strips and insulin pumps, drain your wallet.
6 Ways to Save Money on Your Diabetes Medications
IT CAN BE EXPENSIVE TO keep up with your diabetes medications. Many of the newer meds are expensive, thanks to all of the research and development that goes into them, and there’s no generic insulin. So, you likely empty your pocketbook to pay a portion of your medication costs.
Cutting-edge tech makes diabetes management easier (and less painful) than ever
As it happens, there has never been a better time to have this chronic disease — not because it’s anything you’d wish on another person, but because medical technology has advanced to the point where managing the disorder has never been easier.
The Frustrating Process of Obtaining Expensive Diabetes Supplies
I have had parents tell me that they had to sell their homes to pay for high tech diabetes supplies for their kids as they want their child to have the very best chance for a healthy, good life and so they must make that choice. Now add a complication to the already astronomical cost of just staying healthy and the numbers become staggering.
The Hidden Cost of Diabetes Devices to Patients
Diabetes devices are life-enhancing. For the most part they give us remarkable capacity to better manage our health. But we must recognize that new technology also adds effort, frustration, discomfort, confusion and expense to patients' lives.
This Is The Shocking Cost Of Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is all consuming. The stigma of misinformation. The inescapable quest for medical perfection. The 65,000-plus injections per lifetime (a lifetime which tends to be slashed 12 years from average as soon as you’re diagnosed). The autoimmune disease takes hold of young bodies and never lets go. Without reason. And with no warning of the ever-expanding costs.
One Drop
We have diabetes, too! And we know how hard it can be. So, we work relentlessly to remove ALL barriers between you and the care you need. Get on-demand personalized support and supplies, without any of the hassles. No prescriptions or insurance required.
Advanced Diabetes Supply
Advanced Diabetes Supply provides diabetic testing supplies to people with diabetes.
Diabetes Store
DiabetesStore.Com is fast-becoming the leading online retailer of diabetes-related products by offering high quality diabetic testing supplies, name brand sugar-free foods, and essential accessories for diabetics.
Diabetes Supply
DSCM makes every day a little easier by being your one-stop, full service pharmacy for all your family’s medications & diabetes supplies.
Nova Diabetes Care
NovaMax glucose monitors.
The Diabetic Diet
The Diabetic Diet is a scientifically designed program that guarantees to naturally increase your energy, stabilize your blood sugar and burn stored body fat.
The Diabetic Shoppe
Our mission is to provide diabetic patients with their diabetes testing supplies. We offer a variety of our diabetic products online (by mail order) throughout the United States; delivered directly to your doorstep.
Total Diabetes Supply
Total Diabetes Supply offers discount diabetes supplies at 20-85% off retail prices. We carry brand name glucose test strips, glucose monitor kits, lancets and devices, blood pressure monitors, glucose control solutions, urinalysis test strips, and much more.
ADW
American Diabetes Wholesale (ADW) provides affordable, brand-name diabetic supplies directly to the consumer at 30-60% below retail prices.
Edgepark
Founded in 1928, Edgepark Medical Supplies is the industry leader in home delivery of disposable medical products, serving the chronically ill, and the growing aging population.
Extend Nutrition
Our innovative low-glycemic formula is now available in fifteen delicious flavors of four different products sold in a wide selection of retail stores and websites around the country.
Fifty 50
We contribute half of the profits from the sale of all our products to diabetes research.
Focus Medical Supply Pharmacy
Mail pharmacy featuring diabetic supplies and equipment.
GlucoseMeters4U.com
At Glucosemeters4u.com we provide quality diabetic diagnostic products at great low prices. All our products are supplied by a UK registered pharmacy and we only use the highest quality brands.
Just Home Medical
Just Home Medical has a large selection of diabetic supplies for sale online.
Medtronic
We pioneered the idea of continuous insulin delivery, introducing our first insulin pump in an effort to find a "better way" to deliver insulin for people with diabetes.
Pump Wear
Making insulin pumps more attractive.
Unique Accessories
One site with two totally different companies. Hard to find products for tiny dogs and Insulin pump accessories for people with diabetes .
US MED
Providing the best medical supplies and accessories.
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