Correct Thom. See my response to Gloria. I am on Medicare and have no problem at all,other than my local pharmacy does not have a contract with Free Style and have to use Metric,.
Correct Thom. See my response to Gloria. I am on Medicare and have no problem at all,other than my local pharmacy does not have a contract with Free Style and have to use Metric,.
I'm not talking about glucometers and finger sticks. This is an arm patch with a sensor that measures blood glucose in real time and sends the info to the phone every 5 minutes 24/7.
AND anyone actively managing Type 2 or Pre-diabetes should have access to this kind of monitoring to establish a baseline and/or catch a situation in the process of building … Limiting access is JUST WRONG. And, sure, lobbying by the folks who have to pay for health services — since they collect payments to enroll in the insurance programs — is probably the crux of the issue … They want to collect the premiums and NOT pay for care.
We need BETTER people setting policies and making rules.
{Bernie would have been better — but this pre-dates Bernie. When Obamacare was originated, the R’s insisted on keeping insurance companies at the heart of it, convincing us that we needed them, and they put these obstacles in place, and then the R’s wouldn’t vote for the system ANYWAY. We got the system we got, an improvement over the way it worked before, but seriously flawed, still …
We need BETTER people making the rules, and better people in the Senate and Congress.
Correct Thom. See my response to Gloria. I am on Medicare and have no problem at all,other than my local pharmacy does not have a contract with Free Style and have to use Metric,.
I'm not talking about glucometers and finger sticks. This is an arm patch with a sensor that measures blood glucose in real time and sends the info to the phone every 5 minutes 24/7.
AND anyone actively managing Type 2 or Pre-diabetes should have access to this kind of monitoring to establish a baseline and/or catch a situation in the process of building … Limiting access is JUST WRONG. And, sure, lobbying by the folks who have to pay for health services — since they collect payments to enroll in the insurance programs — is probably the crux of the issue … They want to collect the premiums and NOT pay for care.
We need BETTER people setting policies and making rules.
{Bernie would have been better — but this pre-dates Bernie. When Obamacare was originated, the R’s insisted on keeping insurance companies at the heart of it, convincing us that we needed them, and they put these obstacles in place, and then the R’s wouldn’t vote for the system ANYWAY. We got the system we got, an improvement over the way it worked before, but seriously flawed, still …
We need BETTER people making the rules, and better people in the Senate and Congress.
Gee, I wonder how we make that happen.