Insurance companies avoid aggressive diabetes treatments.
We all know that diabetes complications are caused by uncontrolled blood sugars. Most of us assume it only makes sense that HMOs and PPOs would want to prevent diabetes complications in their clients by helping them keep their blood sugars normal. But many are asking why this isn't happening. All of the tools, like blood sugar meters, insulin pumps, and very convincing research results, have been available for 20 years, with the indisputable DCCT research results being reported in 1993. Yet everyone in the diabetes field knows good control has not happened.