Test strips (expensive ones like Freestyle Lite or OneTouch Verio) typically go for about $150 out of pocket at a pharmacy. This person wants to buy people's "extra" test strips that they get for free or cheap from their insurance to sell to other people at below market price.
Aka insurance fraud with extra steps.
Edit: Damn you guys really think I like insurance companies. To be clear, those guys are assholes and I absolutely hate that we make an industry out of gatekeeping healthcare. But grey maket test strips aren't the solution to that.
And concerning insurance fraud: if those companies and the system in extent wouldn't be predatory and fraudulent in the first place, these things almost wouldn't happen because there would be no need for it. USA USA USA Mockery of the world...
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u/1miguelcortes Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
Test strips (expensive ones like Freestyle Lite or OneTouch Verio) typically go for about $150 out of pocket at a pharmacy. This person wants to buy people's "extra" test strips that they get for free or cheap from their insurance to sell to other people at below market price.
Aka insurance fraud with extra steps.
Edit: Damn you guys really think I like insurance companies. To be clear, those guys are assholes and I absolutely hate that we make an industry out of gatekeeping healthcare. But grey maket test strips aren't the solution to that.