Shout-Out Against Insurers’ Cost-Cutting: Skimping on Insulin Packs
Does your insulin always come packed carefully in ice? Or perhaps not anymore? Medical insurers, notably CVS/Caremark, are cutting costs by skimping on packaging used to keep insulin safe during shipping. And a bunch of PWDs are mad as hell about it.
T1 writer and advocate Riva Greenberg wrote to me not long ago saying:
“What they are doing is cutting costs by not packing insulin in cold gel packs anymore if they determine the…