Price rise impacts diabetes patients
The unsubsidised price of strips is absolutely ridiculous. Companies are making millions out of people who are unfortunate enough to have diabetes. My son uses up to 15 strips a day being type 1 diabetic, I have friends who are type 2 and only use as little as 2 a day. Still none-the-less someone has to pay - really don’t see how they can justify the price in the first place though.
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- Trina Hook Redgwell
What about all the other poor unfortunate people who have other illnesses, who have to pay ridiculous amounts for their medications that have never been on PBS. Yes, it's very unfortunate, but welcome to the life of others like mine, who have to go without things in their daily life to keep themselves alive.
- Mac Dawson
Wonder how many politicians’ lives, families, have to do this testing on a regular basis, will be getting my strips on Friday, plus my husbands too.
- Sue Coutman
If Shorten had of said this before the election, he would have been scaremongering.
- Arnie Jones
Why does this have to happen. These peoples’ lives depend on these.
- Carol Cooper
Disgusting indeed
- Leanne Crawford
This is completely misleading! The strips will continue to be subsidised by NDSS for people with type 1 diabetes and those with type 2 will get 6 months at the subsidised rate and after that they will need to see their Dr or diabetes educator to get a letter stating that they still need to test daily and they can then continue to get the subsidised strips.
- Gavin Krebs
Companies make enough off the strips. I'm type 2, but on insulin, it’s not the only problem with the way Medicare has been (attacked), I can't afford to take the only oral medication that along with insulin keeps my levels consistently acceptable because I'm on insulin, that's right folks if I wasn't on insulin it would be free.
- Mark Lightfoot