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The insulin pump is a definite game changer, I've known several people who use this technology to live their lives almost like diabetes isn't the life threatening disease they've known all their lives.
There is a whole new generation of pumps out there with continuous glucose monitors. Medtroic had one of the first. Tandem has come out with an even better one. The units give feedback every few minutes where your blood sugar is. Alarms for high and low. Allows adjusting of insulin rate based on current blood sugar value. This has been a real game changer for quality of life for those with type 1 diabetes.
Now cost of diabetes is a whole 'nuther matter. When Obama care happened , it all but bankrupted us as we are self employed. its not just the insulin, pumps are $8K, supplies for it are out of this world. Just paying the deductable and other out of pocket cost plus insurance was over $20K a year for one person. AND that's if nothing else went wrong.
Now we have graduated to medicare and costs are not bad at all.