Posted by Sarah on October 05, 2004 at 11:49:24:
Well after reading all about the accu check active/go meters I rang Roche here in NZ to see when we were getting them. How much they'd be etc. Well turns out that our lovely (not) govt wouldn't subsidise them a year or so ago as they thought to many options were not good for us. So they wouldn't subsidise the strips. After talking to the rep here in NZ she said she would send me a free sample of the meter and a few boxes of strips. Yay. bummer is once the strips are finished I will not be able to get them.
But who would say no to a free meter.
The other thing I found out is the govt wants to reduce the numbers of glucose testing strips they subsidisse to only two types. URG.