The high cost of insulin has led to a flourishing black market

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To save money on insulin and diabetes equipment, people are turning to online groups where strangers offer their extra supplies.

Nally, who has had Type 1 diabetes since childhood, said that “every year for about one month, I have to contact insurance and durable medical equipment companies over and over again to get my supplies.”

“I would have boxes and boxes of sensors, but I couldn’t use them without the transmitter. That was the first time this began,” Douds said. “I needed a solution to this, and I didn’t know where to find it.” He first tapped into the network in 2017, when he was riding his bike across the U.S. Because insurance coverage changes by state, he was often left without the diabetes supplies he needed. Douds remembers meeting up with someone he met online, a prominent diabetes blogger, in a parking lot in California to get transmitters for his glucose monitor.

When he got back to the U.S., Douds started work as a full-time freelance videographer in Denver. For nearly two years, he has struggled to find affordable health insurance because he doesn’t have health benefits through work.

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