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by phkahler 2689 days ago
Can they just sell direct to consumers? Cut out the pharmacy and the insurance companies. You guys could earn more while the patient pays less.
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90% of diabetics are insured. If we stop selling to insurance and try to sell directly to these patients we would end up being more expensive than competitors and lose those customers. I mean you could argue that if they are paying their own insurence they could cancel and perhaps have a net saving on the insulin, but that seem very risky considering potential comorbidities of diabetes, and you’d lose all other coverage.