Post by Admin on Oct 24, 2021 7:54:33 GMT
My insulin hasn’t changed, but the price has risen more than 600%
I was fortunate to be invited to the White House to share my story with President Biden ahead of his recent speech on drug pricing reform in which he called on Congress to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices.
That day in the Oval Office, we discussed that if Medicare were able to negotiate drug prices, it would drive down all drug prices and provide real relief to patients across the country. So many Americans depend on innovation for future medicines, but those medicines must have prices that everyone can afford.
I have lived with type 1 diabetes since I was 11. To people living with type 1 diabetes, access to insulin is like access to water. Without it, we die.
In the nearly 50 years since my diagnosis, the biggest hurdle has always been affording my insulin, which my body needs to survive. Novolog, the insulin I buy from one of three companies that sells insulin, costs less than $6 a vial to make but is priced at $289 for each vial. The price of prescription drugs in this country isn’t just expensive, it’s outrageous.
coloradosun.com/2021/10/16/medicare-drug-prices-diabetes-insulin-opinion/
I was fortunate to be invited to the White House to share my story with President Biden ahead of his recent speech on drug pricing reform in which he called on Congress to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices.
That day in the Oval Office, we discussed that if Medicare were able to negotiate drug prices, it would drive down all drug prices and provide real relief to patients across the country. So many Americans depend on innovation for future medicines, but those medicines must have prices that everyone can afford.
I have lived with type 1 diabetes since I was 11. To people living with type 1 diabetes, access to insulin is like access to water. Without it, we die.
In the nearly 50 years since my diagnosis, the biggest hurdle has always been affording my insulin, which my body needs to survive. Novolog, the insulin I buy from one of three companies that sells insulin, costs less than $6 a vial to make but is priced at $289 for each vial. The price of prescription drugs in this country isn’t just expensive, it’s outrageous.
coloradosun.com/2021/10/16/medicare-drug-prices-diabetes-insulin-opinion/