[Diabetes-talk] Fwd: FDA Warning Letter Issued to Prodigy Diabetes care

[Mike Freeman]

Me, too!
Mike

On Sep 2, 2013, at 14:48, "Veronica Elsea" <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com> wrote:

> I'm with you Bern! I'd pay pretty much whatever it took if I really got
> something for it. I'm worth it. <grin>
> Veronica
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Bernadette Jacobs
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 9:39 AM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Fwd: FDA Warning Letter Issued to Prodigy
> Diabetes care
> 
> On 9/2/13, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>> You assume that there is a common protocol for communicating data via USB
>> port. Without legislation dictating otherwise, I think it more probable
> that
>> each manufacturer would end up insisting upon developing its own speech
> box
>> and I deem this unlikely these days. We have the example of Roche which
>> supposedly was doing just this, making a combination of an AccuChek Aviva
>> and speech box. The meter was supposedly going to be a standard Aviva but
>> this didn't work out. Roche had to modify the meter and we have heard
>> nothing more of the effort for several years.
>> I agree with Dotty that we should be willing to pay more for our bg
> meters.
>> We would have to change our mindset. And people tend not to want to test
>> now, let alone if meters were more expensive. And the current marketing
>> model in the industry is that money is made on the strips, not the meters.
>> Fun and games.
>> Mike
>> 
>> On Sep 2, 2013, at 3:15, Cherylandmaxx <Cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Biosense should also
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S®4
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Dorothea Martin <bestsinger at samobile.net>
>>> Date: 09/02/2013  3:46 AM  (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Fwd: FDA Warning Letter Issued to Prodigy
>>> Diabetes care
>>> 
>>> Hello, All,
>>> If we want true fidelity in a music recorder, we pay $300 and something
>>> to buy the LS-100. But somehow we expect to get a complete kit for a
>>> low price and have it be accurate in testing our blood. There are
>>> accurate meters. |I think that the Bayer Breeze2 that I have used with
>>> sighted help is accurate, but half of its memory does not have to go
>>> into speech. I think it's time to move the speaking function back to
>>> another gadget, as with the Accu Check Voicemate or the IBG Star, where
>>> the iPhone does the speaking. What the good folks at |Prodigy should do
>>> is to make and sell such a device so that we could use almost any meter
>>> that has a USB connection.
>>> Dotty Martin
>>> 
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> Hey Gang:
> 
> I like where Mike and Dotti are both going with this one.  Most of
> these outfits are giving away their meters anyway, no matter which one
> of them for the very reason so that we don't have to buy it.  Could it
> actually be that these folks are giving away their meters because they
> are so inexpensive that the cost really doesn't matter to them.  So,
> if there was one out there that was more accurate, no matter the
> price, would they be so inclined to give meters away?  Don't worry.
> If the price was high enough, they wouldn't give any of it away.  They
> wouldn't really care whether or not anyone could afford it.  If it was
> high enough and if we really wanted it, we'd pay the price.  Right?
> That's the way most do it.
> We took the kids to the Grande Prix here in Baltimore.  For three
> slices of pizza, two hotdogs, and two cups of lemonade, we paid fifty
> bucks.  Obviously, those folks don't care what price they mark on
> things. They know that people are buying it because it's there,
> convenient, and they'd have to walk or drive too far to get anything
> else, so of course they're buying it.  We all gotta eat.  Huh? Just
> like all of us diabetics have to test our blood.  Huh?
> Bern
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