Diabetes: Wanted to Share/I'm Overwhelmed/Quite Long

Don't hold your breath! The same pharmaceuticals as well as health insurers are involved in the creation of the current "health care reform." No single payer system is even on the table! The state of Wisconsin has had its own SeniorCare program that has been hanging by a thread, contingent on federal whim. But the problem with this program is that it, too, has a very low, poverty-level requirement. Most on Social Security don't qualify unless they first spend down. Also, drug companies can opt in or out as they wish. The manufacturers of Lantus, Levemir, NovoLog, Humalog and Apidra have either opted out or are in the group of drugs that require one to go through NPH and Regular unsuccessfully in order to qualify. That is NOT acceptable in my estimation and does not a create a basic national health system... not even for seniors. And the existing Plan D "benefit" was created for the single purpose of bankrupting Medicare at an accelerated pace. And in that it IS very effective.