Wrong blood glucose monitor readings can have deathly consequences, as you base your insulin intake on it. It makes sense to be more careful there. On the other hand, how OTC monitors can introduce more risks is not exactly clear to me either.
The glucose monitors out on the market right now are **ing terrible anyway. They're regularly off by a huge amount compared to the readings you get from poking a fingertip. Getting really sick of being woken up in the middle of the night because my SO is about to die from low glucose, we check her finger, and it turns out she was completely fine. I'd personally be happy to try out a free market approach at this point
That makes sense. Although I was under the impression that these monitors are fairly robust