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Post by sportsrancho on May 4, 2017 15:01:02 GMT -5
Don't get to excited....back down to .72c last I looked. This appears to me to be a bone thrown to the shareholders just before the ASM in hopes the pitchforks will be left at the door. How long has it been before we've heard anything from the company? And all of a sudden a tid-bit of news? Maybe I'm just cynical in my old age but I've see this rodeo before. . Yes or Orlon you are being cynical it's not like mankind called one touch yesterday and said hey let's tie shareholders over for 10 days would you want to do a collaboration? I'm guessing these things take many many months from start to finish it coincides more in my opinion with the start of things that Matt said are complicated and things take time You are right. It's been awhile. Look back on Twitter to when they first met. We knew this was in the works.
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Post by sportsrancho on May 4, 2017 15:09:20 GMT -5
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Post by sportsrancho on May 4, 2017 17:14:31 GMT -5
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Post by me on May 4, 2017 18:25:41 GMT -5
Jeff Dachis, the One Drop founder, was also the founder of Razorfish, a cutting edge digital marketing ad agency. My daughter worked for them in Manhattan. With his expertise One Drop should get great exposure with early adopters in the diabetes category. With Afrezza as part of the mix, we should get greater awareness. Perhaps this could be an opportunity to get greater coverage of Afrezza's advantages. For you downers out there, have some vision. I see this as a huge plus. Maybe even game changing. You've gotta have vision if you want to win big. Full disclosure I have been averaging down and bought more today. Good luck all. Facts, you're always a winner with me with that avatar! And, you're in the perfect stock if you like to average down, the opportunities apparently are boundless! Agree with your vision comment, however, I'm gonna need some expensive night-vision googles for this one. ( anybody ever use those things, I mean good ones? Incredible!) Cool trick: While wearing high-end NVGs, shine a standard Army-issue flashlight with the red filter attached, in any direction you wish. At that moment, you hold in your hands a super high-powered spotlight that lights up everything in its relatively narrow beam for miles! I have identified tanks ( not in defiladed positions) on mountainside roads a couple of miles away in the dead of night, using only NVGs and a red-filtered flashlight. (Sorry about the off-topic post, but babaoriley made me do it!)
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Post by agedhippie on May 4, 2017 18:38:00 GMT -5
Don't get to excited....back down to .72c last I looked. This appears to me to be a bone thrown to the shareholders just before the ASM in hopes the pitchforks will be left at the door. How long has it been before we've heard anything from the company? And all of a sudden a tid-bit of news? Maybe I'm just cynical in my old age but I've see this rodeo before. . Yes or Orlon you are being cynical it's not like mankind called one touch yesterday and said hey let's tie shareholders over for 10 days would you want to do a collaboration? I'm guessing these things take many many months from start to finish it coincides more in my opinion with the start of things that Matt said are complicated and things take time Just to point out - this is OneDrop and not One Touch which would have been a lot more interesting (they are owned by JNJ).
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Post by peppy on May 4, 2017 18:57:08 GMT -5
I wish the collaboration had been/would be one free month of one drop with an afrezza prescription.
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Post by boytroy88 on May 4, 2017 21:44:49 GMT -5
Jeff Dachis (CEO of OneDrop) is creating a potentially huge community of PWD's that can reinforce each other's journey and solutions, communicating seamlessly and confidentially. He seems a solid, smart, highly commited dude in this interview (http://onedrop.today/about/press/) and the technology seems to be faultless and sophisticated. Nice going, Mike Castagna! This is exactly the right kind of partnership we need. Says in his bio that he's Type 1 LADA....wonder why that hasn't been "high lighted"?
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Post by agedhippie on May 5, 2017 7:50:17 GMT -5
Jeff Dachis (CEO of OneDrop) is creating a potentially huge community of PWD's that can reinforce each other's journey and solutions, communicating seamlessly and confidentially. He seems a solid, smart, highly commited dude in this interview (http://onedrop.today/about/press/) and the technology seems to be faultless and sophisticated. Nice going, Mike Castagna! This is exactly the right kind of partnership we need. Says in his bio that he's Type 1 LADA....wonder why that hasn't been "high lighted"? It's not particularly relevant to the product. What matters is getting strips into the hands of Type 2 diabetics because today the insurers try to keep that to about one strip a day. One of the costs for insurers in moving patients to insulin is that they have to give them a reasonable number of strips, on non-insulin meds they don't.
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Post by centralcoastinvestor on May 5, 2017 8:31:08 GMT -5
Says in his bio that he's Type 1 LADA....wonder why that hasn't been "high lighted"? It's not particularly relevant to the product. What matters is getting strips into the hands of Type 2 diabetics because today the insurers try to keep that to about one strip a day. One of the costs for insurers in moving patients to insulin is that they have to give them a reasonable number of strips, on non-insulin meds they don't. aged, I never ever would have understood how hard the insurance companies make for PWD to actually effectively deal with their diabetes. Very sad.
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Post by ssiegel on May 5, 2017 8:45:54 GMT -5
Jeff Dachis (CEO of OneDrop) is creating a potentially huge community of PWD's that can reinforce each other's journey and solutions, communicating seamlessly and confidentially. He seems a solid, smart, highly commited dude in this interview (http://onedrop.today/about/press/) and the technology seems to be faultless and sophisticated. Nice going, Mike Castagna! This is exactly the right kind of partnership we need. Says in his bio that he's Type 1 LADA....wonder why that hasn't been "high lighted"? Does he use afrezza?
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Post by nadathing on May 5, 2017 10:06:31 GMT -5
Says in his bio that he's Type 1 LADA....wonder why that hasn't been "high lighted"? It's not particularly relevant to the product. What matters is getting strips into the hands of Type 2 diabetics because today the insurers try to keep that to about one strip a day. One of the costs for insurers in moving patients to insulin is that they have to give them a reasonable number of strips, on non-insulin meds they don't. One strip a day? I can get as many as I want. I usually get more than I need. I told my doctor I test up to three times a day and she prescribes 300 strips for a three month period. Never had any issue with insurance. In fact, my insurance company offers me free coaching and half price copays on supplies if I participate in a wellness program. Insurance companies have figured out it is cheaper to keep us compliant and healthy than pay for the long term health consequences of not taking care of ourselves.
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Post by alethea on May 5, 2017 10:38:45 GMT -5
It's not particularly relevant to the product. What matters is getting strips into the hands of Type 2 diabetics because today the insurers try to keep that to about one strip a day. One of the costs for insurers in moving patients to insulin is that they have to give them a reasonable number of strips, on non-insulin meds they don't. One strip a day? I can get as many as I want. I usually get more than I need. I told my doctor I test up to three times a day and she prescribes 300 strips for a three month period. Never had any issue with insurance. In fact, my insurance company offers me free coaching and half price copays on supplies if I participate in a wellness program. Insurance companies have figured out it is cheaper to keep us compliant and healthy than pay for the long term health consequences of not taking care of ourselves. My insurance (which denied me Afrezza) and is generally very cheap, chintzy or at least cost conscious, allows me 4 strips per day. I have never heard of anyone being limited to one strip per day. I don't believe that.
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Post by dreamboatcruise on May 5, 2017 10:46:27 GMT -5
It's not particularly relevant to the product. What matters is getting strips into the hands of Type 2 diabetics because today the insurers try to keep that to about one strip a day. One of the costs for insurers in moving patients to insulin is that they have to give them a reasonable number of strips, on non-insulin meds they don't. One strip a day? I can get as many as I want. I usually get more than I need. I told my doctor I test up to three times a day and she prescribes 300 strips for a three month period. Never had any issue with insurance. In fact, my insurance company offers me free coaching and half price copays on supplies if I participate in a wellness program. Insurance companies have figured out it is cheaper to keep us compliant and healthy than pay for the long term health consequences of not taking care of ourselves. Interesting. I've heard about restrictions on test strips from when I started following MNKD years ago. I wonder if at least this one thing has started to change for the better, only if perhaps because the volume and cost of production has dramatically changed. From what I've seen of a test strip, I'm guessing it is something that as volumes increase, specialized machines could be made to crank them out ever faster and more cheaply. I do wonder how OneDrop is showing such dramatic improvements in A1C. It is very dramatic. Few drugs show that large of an A1C drop. Factors that might contribute: - some patients that don't currently have unlimited test strips are getting them more affordably with the subscription - the app is better than what is available and is proving useful (don't other meters have links to tracking apps?) - the social media aspect of the app actually has meaningful clinical benefit - the expert help available - the effect of self selection... those that find and are motivated to buy OneDrop rather than simply using whatever meter that is made available by their insurance are patients that are making a decision that they are ready to be very proactive in managing their diabetes and might have done as well with any other meter. As you state, it seems insurance is addressing the strip access problem. The next two of my points would be pretty easy for the big boys of meters to copy even if they didn't want to wade into the business model of providing the expert help. Will be interesting if OneDrop starts to eat someone's lunch that isn't nimble enough to keep up... but OneDrop doesn't have much of a protective moat around their business.
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Post by dreamboatcruise on May 5, 2017 10:50:47 GMT -5
One strip a day? I can get as many as I want. I usually get more than I need. I told my doctor I test up to three times a day and she prescribes 300 strips for a three month period. Never had any issue with insurance. In fact, my insurance company offers me free coaching and half price copays on supplies if I participate in a wellness program. Insurance companies have figured out it is cheaper to keep us compliant and healthy than pay for the long term health consequences of not taking care of ourselves. My insurance (which denied me Afrezza) and is generally very cheap, chintzy or at least cost conscious, allows me 4 strips per day. I have never heard of anyone being limited to one strip per day. I don't believe that. Perhaps he meant one per day for those not yet on prandial or not even on basal.
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Post by alethea on May 5, 2017 11:00:07 GMT -5
Even the mildest T2 diabetic needs to monitor blood sugar more than once per day. Upon awakening, bedtime and at least once or twice during the day.
Again, I don't think 1 strip a day is anywhere near correct for the vast majority of even T2 diabetics.
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