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USTX4 - Diabetic Health Coverage and Drug Information
| Make diabetic health coverage more affordable and drug information more accessible. | |
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Description
I'm a diabetic (type I) that was formerly with an HMO and now I'm with a PPO at a much higher cost ($3,000 deductible). I had to upgrade to a more expensive insurance because I was not getting the best information available. I'm now talking to an education professional regularly to review my glucose readings and work out the best option to keep me alive.
Paying the $3,000 deductible has made me aware of how much insulin and glucose testing equipment really costs. I have already burned through the deductible. The current system allows drug companies to price gouge and makes everything more expensive. The gouging needs to stop. I can barely afford insulin, glucose and doctors appointments even with insurance.
Paying the $3,000 deductible has made me aware of how much insulin and glucose testing equipment really costs. I have already burned through the deductible. The current system allows drug companies to price gouge and makes everything more expensive. The gouging needs to stop. I can barely afford insulin, glucose and doctors appointments even with insurance.
Arguments
Juvenile diabetes is the perfect illustration of John Rawl's "veil of ignorance" test. There is nothing you can do to prevent it, and nothing you can do to get rid of it. About 1 in 400 children get it. Treatment costs ~$7k/yr, perhaps $3k/yr with a typical insurance plan. If you knew these facts (in some hypothetical sense) before you're born and you have a say in the world you're going to be born into, would you have everyone contribute equal amounts to pay for juvenile diabetes or would you risk it and have unlucky diabetics pay their own costs?
Counterarguments
Conventional medicine is controlled by drug companies who make maximum profit from maximum ill health and ignorance. Alternative health care is largely health-promoting, while conventional health abuse is largely health-sapping. Alternative care can cure most diabetes, but conventional medicine pretends there is no cure, just life-long treatment.
Any health insurance that doesn't cover alternative health care isn't health insurance; it's health abuse insurance.
See http://mercola.com, http://curezone.com etc.
Any health insurance that doesn't cover alternative health care isn't health insurance; it's health abuse insurance.
See http://mercola.com, http://curezone.com etc.
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