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wilyo70 t1_j9aujti wrote

If this can accurately monitor my blood sugar, my medical costs would go from $1,000+ every single year to a single watch payment. That’s pretty beneficial to me.

That doesn’t even include that it would take away the process of inserting and removing the thing every few days like I have to with my current device.

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SoUpInYa t1_j9b8m3t wrote

>process of inserting and removing the thing every few days

How difficult/painful is that?

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WhyTry32121 t1_j9bbtpg wrote

it is as difficult/painful as inserting and removing a small needle every few days. i'm sorry if this doesn't help, but i don't know how else to describe it.

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wilyo70 t1_j9bbst9 wrote

Looking at this from strictly a numbers perspective:

Diabetics are fucking expensive for insurance companies to cover. If this helps diabetics control things better, that leads to diabetics being less expensive to cover, which leads to lower premium pricing for everyone.

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[deleted] t1_j9bg3yr wrote

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wilyo70 t1_j9bgfjn wrote

It is related to the cost of medical care which is medically related.

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wilyo70 t1_j9bl6h0 wrote

See, just because YOU don’t see an immediate functionality improvement doesn’t mean that they were wrong.

If these features are able to help out medical costs for a lot of people, they will help out others, who don’t care about the feature, with the cost of their medical care.

I am also basing these benefits on people living in countries where you have to pay for healthcare.

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wilyo70 t1_j9bnea4 wrote

I don’t pretend to know about healthcare for every country in the world; I just know about where I live and how it could effect people here.

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wilyo70 t1_j9bqni7 wrote

There is nothing natural that people can do to fix Type 1 diabetes. It is due to a genetic mutation. We’re pretty much the shitty X-Men.

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