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> they started rolling out in Switzerland last year Wow, do you know why this is? The Dexcom G4 is already 5 years old and is absolutely a life-saving system.
by ng12 9y ago
> they started rolling out in Switzerland last year
Wow, do you know why this is? The Dexcom G4 is already 5 years old and is absolutely a life-saving system.
- pimeys 9y agoThat's because there are so few of us Type 1 diabetics and not enough political pressure to get the new stuff faster. There are some activist doctors and nurses that help in Germany, but we also got the G4 for free only on last November. The insurance companies are conservative and see the systems as very expensive investments and the technology is something scary in a country which is still very suspicious about Internet and computers in general.
- acoster 9y agoThere were also some privacy/bureaucratic slow downs (my girlfriend had to sign a monster of T&C regarding data sharing with her doctor).