Quote Originally Posted by Grace View Post
What things cost these days is disgusting. Anyone else a diabetic? The cost of the strips for checking my glucose is insane. You can get a meter for nothing - because the money is in the strips. The place I get strips bills Medicare $100 for 100 strips. Medicare only pays about 55-60% of that amount - so my other insurance pays the rest. The worst part - I can go to Amazon.com and buy 100 strips for less than the 55% Medicare pays. What a rip-off!!
And if you could buy those strips in one of those countries ...such as Canada...they would probably be even cheaper!

Insurance companies want to insure those who are healthy. That is how they make money. Every claim they must pay is an expense they don't want.

And so those who cannot afford health insurance wait until they are REALLY sick before making that trip to the emergency room -- costing those with insuarance (and medicaid/medicare) even more as more advance treatment is needed.

We ALL pay the price of medical care - directly or indirectly. To me the issue it to make it more equitable and less wasteful.