[Blue Jays]

If someone is going to DIE within the span of 72 hours and a commonplace and simple injected medication will keep them alive while insurance issues are resolved...yeah, I think we do need to examine avenues.

Denying some insulin-dependent kid insulin would only serve to make conservatives look like complete maniacs.

[redcatcherb412]

-—If someone is going to DIE within the span of 72 hours—

The gist of the complaint seems to be the supplies, not the insulin. Type 1 diabetes requires insulin and is covered by private and gubbmint insurers. The supplies maybe not for some insurances. But even then insulin and supplies for my grandaughter would be about $1000 a month bought retail, a far cry from $2500. Again not supplying insulin is equal to a hospital trip for DKA which would cost the medicaid the equivelant of many years of insulin for just a 6 day hospital stay.

[Mears]

Contacting the Joslin in Boston may give her some leads.

http://www.joslin.org/

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[RC one]

I have sent plenty of people home from my ER with insulin pens. I have also seen many people admitted to the ICU for diabetic ketoacidosis when they stopped being compliant with their insulin for whatever reason. I think it’s always cheaper to just send them home with the pen. If you don’t, they’re going to show up in DKA later and it’s an automatic ICU admission which costs many thousands of dollars and ties up a lot of resources. And if they can’t afford their insulin, they sure as heck aren’t going to be able to pay for their ICU stay so the hospital ends up absorbing the cost.