Low Cost Diabetic Supplies Including Low Cost Test Strips
Are you a diabetic and have no health insurance? I pity you since the average person with diabetes spends somewhere in the neighborhood of ,000 a year on health costs. Compare this with the ,500 a person without the disease spends and you can see why we are between a rock and a hard place with out health insurance. Obviously finding low cost diabetic supplies is mandatory for us.
I was personally turned down for health insurance coverage because I was considered “pre-diabetic” because it runs in my family. Every once in a while I will check my blood sugar with my wife’s glucose monitor and I have always been in a good range. I wonder how many others are stuck with no insurance or inadequate insurance to cover the high cost of their diabetes supplies. There must countless thousands in the same boat as I am. If I ever do come down with diabetes my insurance will not cover it.
I mentioned that I used my wife’s monitor, she does have diabetes and needs to check her glucose levels daily and as you may well know sometimes three or four times a day.
The Glucose monitors last for a long time but finding low cost test strips can be a chore especially when you go through better than 50 a month. We have found that it is best to stay stocked up on them so that we do not have to run out to the pharmacy to grab a high cost bottle of test strips. Finding medical supplies that are in the affordable range can be very difficult and I have found that there are many folks who just figure that they are stuck paying the high costs.