Why are insulin pumps so expensive?

Why are insulin pumps so expensive?

For diabetic patients, if they want to be well treated and live a high-quality life, using an insulin pump is indeed the best choice (insulin pump A device that injects insulin into the human body by simulating the physiological pattern of a healthy pancreas secreting insulin. The insulin pump automatically releases a small amount of insulin every four minutes, called the basal rate, to keep blood sugar stable between meals and during sleep at night. At this time, the pump is programmed to quickly output a larger dose of insulin, called a large dose, to cope with the amount of carbohydrates contained in the food, thus effectively reducing postprandial hyperglycemia), whether it is long-acting medicine or injection. Insulin or regular insulin are not as refined as this.

The fees that people with diabetes need to pay include three parts: tangible equipment and consumables; services; and information. In today's society, many people have gained the greatest benefits by taking advantage of information asymmetry. In fact, the services, many of those who receive this benefit, are not even provided with shit. At the same time, the equipment, for such a small thing, costs 3,000 yuan. Of course, we need to use as many Chinese people as possible who should use insulin pumps, so we can definitely buy equipment at this price. As for our services, we provide individual services because diabetes is a long-term matter. As a chronic disease management, we should pay correspondingly higher fees. And this is the funny problem in China. Equipment manufacturers and distributors (taking advantage of information asymmetry) take what they shouldn’t!