In the US, outcomes for people with type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent) really have not improved substantially against other countries. In many ways, we have regressed. I personally have type 1 diabetes and care is so much different abroad.
This is just one symptom of our malady within the US healthcare system: it is about profit and not about improving the health, livelihood, and longevity of the general population.
I naturalized as a citizen with universal healthcare over stuff like insulin prices, although this was not the primary reason. I studied healthcare systems for hundreds of hours to figure out where I would need to establish myself. If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile.
The cost of insulin is not the only expense diabetics face. I have a Freestyle Libre Continuous Glucose monitor. Instead of finger sticks to put a drop of blood into a monitor, I have a sensor attached to my arm, and a reader that can read glucose levels by swiping the reader over the sensor as often as I want. When I was doing finger sticks, I was testing glucose approximately four times a day. Now that I have the CGM I test approximately 20 time a day. The improvement in my glucose control is significant.
I have Medicare and supplemental insurance, so my costs are all covered. If I didn't have insurance the uninsured cost of sensors used to be $350 every four weeks. Late last year the uninsured cost went up to $1074 every four weeks. This is just my most visible awareness of how badly healthcare in the United States is broken.
There were open source firmwares for a popular brand that lasted a few years but the company discontinued the hardware in favor these more disposable ones with crap batteries.
> If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile.
I'll be emailing you. My wife and I are starting to work on a shortlist of countries to consider as immigration targets. I'm not interested in my children growing up in a "free market" healthcare system.
Yeah instead of “unit of insulin” he meant “vial of insulin”.
A standard vial of insulin is 10 mL. Generally speaking, the most common concentration of insulin is 100 units per milliliter. So, typically, a standard vial of insulin contains 1,000 units of insulin.
In my lil girl’s 147 ICU stay, $333,000+ of the $2.5m bill was IV medication. I wish they broke it down by medications because I would be really interested in seeing what makes up the $333k. She’s been both hyperglycaemic and hyperinsulinemic, really I’m just interested in what they charged for essentially sugar water.
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[ 22.3 ms ] story [ 2233 ms ] threadIn the US, outcomes for people with type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent) really have not improved substantially against other countries. In many ways, we have regressed. I personally have type 1 diabetes and care is so much different abroad.
This is just one symptom of our malady within the US healthcare system: it is about profit and not about improving the health, livelihood, and longevity of the general population.
I naturalized as a citizen with universal healthcare over stuff like insulin prices, although this was not the primary reason. I studied healthcare systems for hundreds of hours to figure out where I would need to establish myself. If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile.
I have Medicare and supplemental insurance, so my costs are all covered. If I didn't have insurance the uninsured cost of sensors used to be $350 every four weeks. Late last year the uninsured cost went up to $1074 every four weeks. This is just my most visible awareness of how badly healthcare in the United States is broken.
It’s a racket and it’s killing people.
I'll be emailing you. My wife and I are starting to work on a shortlist of countries to consider as immigration targets. I'm not interested in my children growing up in a "free market" healthcare system.
1000 units per vial. Even in America where our prices are bananas, the cash price of a vial of insulin is not 100k.
I believe the overall pricing trend, though. Maybe this is the cost per vial? It isn't even the cost per cc!
A standard vial of insulin is 10 mL. Generally speaking, the most common concentration of insulin is 100 units per milliliter. So, typically, a standard vial of insulin contains 1,000 units of insulin.
https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26497816
In my lil girl’s 147 ICU stay, $333,000+ of the $2.5m bill was IV medication. I wish they broke it down by medications because I would be really interested in seeing what makes up the $333k. She’s been both hyperglycaemic and hyperinsulinemic, really I’m just interested in what they charged for essentially sugar water.
For those who use the public health system it is free.