CNN is reporting that "all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs." But that's not really true. They aren't "offering" anything. They fought tooth and nail against this but were essentially forced by Joe Biden to cap their prices via rebate provisions of the American Rescue Plan that would otherwise have cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Credit where it's due, please.
Starting this week millions more Americans can get cheaper insulin. Never forget that when Democrats capped the price of insulin every single republican in Congress voted no and voted to tell Americans to drop dead. pic.twitter.com/NCxT31ILh6
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) January 2, 2024
reading their report:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap/index.html
It is quite difficult to see that this is the work of Democrats. It really looks as if written by soembody that wants to make sure not so show Democrats in good light.
Fox don't currently mention insulin in their health page:
https://www.foxnews.com/health
This is one of those things that sucks about our current political state. I doubt 90% of Republicans wanted to vote against this but they got strong armed into it because giving Biden a win just simply could not be countenanced.
This is no way to run a country.
Oh get real.
I doubt that even 1% of Republicans wanted to vote for it, because it would mean lower profits for exploitative corporations.
Jeebus, you're right. Talk about burying a lede (literally almost 20 paragraphs down):
That’s because the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act made a major change to the rebates that drug manufacturers pay annually to state Medicaid programs – a change that kicked in on January 1.
Damn, that took some work. And the writer *still* couldn't bring themselves to write "Biden" or "Democrats".
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Watch a bunch of diabetic MAGAts go off their insulin just to stick it to Biden. That'll show him!
ETA: Also, what's the over/under on how long it takes a Congressional Republican who voted against this to claim credit for it during a town hall or something?
They probably already did.
the law should have required pharmacies to offer insulin for two prices explicitly by name, the 'biden price' of $35 or the 'trump price' of $300
Great comment!
It/s what the Defendant would have done. Or Bush Junior.
Neither Biden nor Democrsts will ever receive credit unless these things that affect people in such a personal way are repeatedky mentioned publicly over & over not just by tweets but by news items, but in campaign ads. They don't see infrastructure progress in a personal way, especially with the Republicans taking undeserved credit .
Wonder just how many people in red states have diabetes? And of those, how many have struggled to pay for insulin - or had to reduce their dosage?
Right. They need ads like the "Harry and Louise" ads the Republicans used to kill health care reform in the 90s. Instead, with actual people who use insulin instead of actors who pretend to.
State Diabetes Profiles from the CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/programs/stateandlocal/state-diabetes-profiles.html
My husband developed insulin-dependent diabetes when he was 16 years old. When we married in the early 1970s, he paid $2.32 a vial at the local Eckerd Pharmacy in Florida. Before he died several years ago, costs were outrageous. Sure wish he could have enjoyed this price cap. So glad Joe got this for others who suffer.
Was he still doing vials and syringes several years ago or had he shifted to pens?
At that time he passed, he was doing pens. He’d order several months’ worth at a time, and paid about $1500 each time.
"in the early 1970s, he paid $2.32 a vial . . . ."
Assuming it was 1973 and adjusting for inflation, that would be $16.75 today.
This helps illuminate the insanity of pharmaceutical pricing in the US. The Biden Administration had to fight tooth and claw just to get the price down to merely double the overall inflation rate.
In the early 1970s it would have been all vial and syringe. Now does anyone even still use vials and syringes, or is it all pumps and pens?
My husband used pens late in his life. Still…
The pumps and pens are all proprietary which allowed manufacturers to raise the price whenever they wanted (up until now)… like how printer ink is pretty cheap but the cartridges are proprietary. Good for Dems. But they need to crow about it… nobody appreciates things you do that they don’t know you did.
"This is bad for Joe Biden."
The message hasn't gotten through. Need more ppl to RT.
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Is California still going to produce insulin itself (via partnership)? When I went searching I came across: https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/gavin-newsom-vetoes-insulin-copay-cap/
So the Federal cap isn’t terribly novel.