US diabetes patients turn to 'black market' for medications, supplies: Study

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NEW YORK: Diabetes medications and blood-test supplies are sold, traded and donated on black markets because the US healthcare system isn't ...

NEW YORK: Diabetes medications and blood-test supplies are sold, traded and donated on black markets because the US healthcare system isn't meeting patients' needs, a study shows.

"While there are risks to using medications and supplies that are not prescribed to them, there are also risks to rationing or not taking medications or using supplies at all," Litchman told Reuters Health by email. "The current healthcare situation in the United States is substandard for many people with chronic disease," said Mary Rogers of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, who wasn't involved in the study.

 

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stacyherbert How uniquely American that is.

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stacyherbert Been going to Mexico for as long as I can remember.

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stacyherbert Considering that vials of insulin are 1/10 th the price in Canada on the open market there being 20 or 30 dollars versus 300 dollars plus in the USA if not more. The US and FDA are a racketeering enterprise they should be prosecuted under RICO statutes

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