300 USD? That is incredibly expensive! In Germany, the general public can order a Libre 2/3 from their website for 60 EUR. That's 150 USD per month (assuming 26 devices per year). Though that's a purely theoretical price: As with insulin, the mandatory health insurance seems to pay for it anyway.
Even with import taxes/tariffs applied, I could imagine a vacation to Europe being massively subsidized by just bringing back one or two years of GCM supplies (obviously Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness[1] applies).
In Germany a Dexcom G6 sensor is 80€ per 10 days. A transmitter about 400€ per 90 days. TK pays for all of this if you can show nightly hypos and jumpy glucose values, which should be easy for any T1d...
Dexcom is the only one accurate enough to use with SMB looping. And the only one in germany that sends the glucose numbers to your phone with BLE. Libre 2 can be hacked to do the same though.
Hm, possibly? I mean, I luckily don't have diabetes and know the Libre 2 only second-hand (my Dad uses it to monitor his non-T1d). So I am not too familiar with the details, hence first of all thanks for the clarification of what that device can or much rather can not do.
However, I was under the impression that the GP [emj] was "only" considering good monitoring to improve their decision about insulin application. Not a closed loop system. But yeah, if they meant a closed loop and if the Dexcom is the cheapest option here, then the 300 US$/month is actually cheaper than the 380 US$/month you outlined.
Even with import taxes/tariffs applied, I could imagine a vacation to Europe being massively subsidized by just bringing back one or two years of GCM supplies (obviously Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness[1] applies).
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...