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Today, we were trying to get some quotes for new health insurance. You know, I mean, obviously,

you know, health insurance is like a massive thing for type 1 diabetes and like trying to get

these plans. And it's it's so

um predatory is the only word I can think of like I don't really use health insurance like I get

I get my blood work done but like this like I use a service like I don't really get sick like I don't

really have like I wouldn't even need health insurance I've never really I mean I mean, and so like this stuff, you know, Kate had cancer twice,

you know, and then Cash has got the type one and now like a killy sprained her ankle and like,

you know, so it's just like this between Kate and Cash, like it's the exorbitated costs of like

type one are just like insane.

I actually did a cost calculation. So when I transitioned jobs not too long ago,

I went without health insurance for a period of time. I was doing the cost calculation and it would have cost me like $6,000 a year, six to seven for me to do my standard stuff without

health insurance because the out of pocket

costs are so much cheaper the second I got insurance and then I'm paying all the co-pays it would have

jumped almost instantly to $16,000 to $18,000 minimum for just me and that is an account for all

the expenses that would accrue for my family just to have it right because they're not going to going to really use it that much. Like my kids, yes, because they're going through, depending on how sick they get that year, they might go to more pediatric visits. So wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So you had no health insurance and your out of pocket was probably around six grand. Like, and then once you got insurance, the cost was probably like 18 grand so it was almost it nearly

tripled and I've calculated this many times because just to have the insurance alone costs way

more than a cost to manage diabetes depending on how you do it right so if you're using these these

devices they get very expensive but like let's say the cost is even lower if you do it with

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