{"id":2155,"date":"2006-04-19T14:50:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/more-on-the-cos\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T14:50:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T14:50:48","slug":"more-on-the-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/more-on-the-cos\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the cost issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"dLife Today: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlife.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/penny_wise_and.html\">dLife Today: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A recent UK decision highlights one of the problems with universal coverage, and interestingly enough, it isn&#8217;t that different from an issue faced by Americans under many managed care programs &#8211; cost pressures that deny life-enhancing drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This definately bit me in the rear when I first went on an insulin pump.  My diabetes care and my life has improved significantly since I started pumping insulin.  However, the HMO I belonged to, wouldn&#8217;t fund it, and I did it out of pocket.  I&#8217;ll probably have to do the CGMS system out of pocket too, I just have to decide if it is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dLife Today: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish? A recent UK decision highlights one of the problems with universal coverage, and interestingly enough, it isn&#8217;t that different from an issue faced by Americans under many managed care programs &#8211; cost pressures that deny life-enhancing drugs. This definately bit me in the rear when I first went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}