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<blockquote data-quote="Xan2cv" data-source="post: 943404" data-attributes="member: 172718"><p>Its all about the cost of test strips that's all no matter what testing machine you have and companies give them away we know that from this website they just want you to buy the test strips for £25 a box and 3 boxes a month equate to £75 per patient if your on insulin then there is the rest of drugs they want to pump down your neck for cholesterol and conditions caused by the diabetes, I go to the hospital once a week for an INR test because I am on anticoagulants to stop my blood clotting the machine they use is portable and it costs £600 to save that journey and sitting in the waiting room to have a finger prick test for two hours this machine would make a lot of peoples lives easier especially on a Friday afternoon when traffic is bad.</p><p></p><p>But the test strips are £800 for a pack of five to the public, doctors would never allow you any test strips on prescription.</p><p>let alone pay for the machine.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately this world is all about greed and greedy people, many of us would invent something for diabetes and virtually give it away if it made peoples lives better but big corporations don't see it as helping people they see it as making a profit.</p><p>This is what angers me about the price of wheelchairs and electric scooters. its taking advantage of the sick.</p><p></p><p>Sugars test strips should be relatively cheap now but the companies are holding the prices high deliberately and GP's are always being told to cut the cost of prescribing drugs and equipment, I have just gone through a cost cutting exercise with my new doctors same drugs less than half the price they work just as well shame we don't have the same choices with blood sugar meters and test strips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xan2cv, post: 943404, member: 172718"] Its all about the cost of test strips that's all no matter what testing machine you have and companies give them away we know that from this website they just want you to buy the test strips for £25 a box and 3 boxes a month equate to £75 per patient if your on insulin then there is the rest of drugs they want to pump down your neck for cholesterol and conditions caused by the diabetes, I go to the hospital once a week for an INR test because I am on anticoagulants to stop my blood clotting the machine they use is portable and it costs £600 to save that journey and sitting in the waiting room to have a finger prick test for two hours this machine would make a lot of peoples lives easier especially on a Friday afternoon when traffic is bad. But the test strips are £800 for a pack of five to the public, doctors would never allow you any test strips on prescription. let alone pay for the machine. Unfortunately this world is all about greed and greedy people, many of us would invent something for diabetes and virtually give it away if it made peoples lives better but big corporations don't see it as helping people they see it as making a profit. This is what angers me about the price of wheelchairs and electric scooters. its taking advantage of the sick. Sugars test strips should be relatively cheap now but the companies are holding the prices high deliberately and GP's are always being told to cut the cost of prescribing drugs and equipment, I have just gone through a cost cutting exercise with my new doctors same drugs less than half the price they work just as well shame we don't have the same choices with blood sugar meters and test strips. [/QUOTE]
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