I'm likewise a T2 Diabetic but I live in Luxembourg. The difference here is that at the pharmacy the till ticket shows the retail cost of the medication then the cost I have to pay (with most diabetes medication that is 0.00€). If I had to pay for the 4 drugs I have to take myself, it would cost me 100s of Euros a month
@Paulos_the_fog our government is on the precipice of claiming there's only one model, the American model, and it will doom a lot of people.