Like Don Quixote Chasing Windmills, I Aim to See Financial Remediation for Patients Still Suffering in a Predatory U.S Healthcare System

Sometimes, I feel (if you pardon the metaphor) a bit like Don Quixote chasing windmills with my efforts to see true financial remediation introduced in the predatory U.S. healthcare " system " (and I am glad to see that the term " predatory " is now being used by a growing number of medical doctors, which I think is great). I envision a type of financial remediation whereby patients will be able to get access to the care they need without having to face financial predators trying to pick their pockets with illegal discount bribes standing in the way of their getting access to things they need like insulin, CGM senors and related treatments.Until March 2023, patients with autoimmune Type 1 diabetes suffered insane price inflation on insulin which they needed for their very survival. Many people have heard stories, such as the one about Alec Smith, a Minnesota young man who died in 2017 of DKA (at age 26) when he was no longer eligible to be covered under his parents ' healthcare insurance. Because Alec made too much money as a waiter to qualify for Medicaid, and his job did not provide health insurance, he was forced to pay more than $1,300 a month for insulin and supplies, which was almost half of his salary. So he rationed his insulin in an effort to make it last just a little bit longer, but ultimately succumbed to DKA because of that. His mother has done an excellent job of keeping his story alive.I recently wrote a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ( " FTC ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 CGM Formulary Exclusion insulin PBM Source Type: blogs