Sad. But you should never try to save money on medical things. Your life is too important.
Cut back on your cell phone, your cable, anything, but not on things affecting your health.
Some years ago I have been there. I needed some expensive meds and the insurance would not pay.
So I paid for it myself and it was worth it.
But have no problem with paying hundreds of dollars a month for a cell phone. Which is bandwidth & storage not a product produced, labeled, stored & distributed under cGMPs.
Use a landline & email for g*ds sake.
He made 16.50 an hour. His grandfather died from diabetes I.