KevinMD December 28, 2025
Three weeks after giving birth, you are hit with a blinding headache and fading vision. The next available appointment with your doctor is two weeks away. You finally go to your doctor, and your blood pressure has already reached a dangerous level without you even realizing.
The solution is straightforward. A home blood pressure monitor costs between $69 and $169. Yet most insurers will not cover it because many states do not require them to. The result is predictable: People continue to face life-threatening complications even though they are very much preventable.
Problem magnitude
Hypertension affects roughly one in three American adults and costs the nation $131 billion each year in health care services, medications, and lost productivity. The risk...
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