This is pretty upsetting, having family with type one (genetic, body does not create insulin at all) diabetes. The fact is more than 1 in 4 insulin users will never not need insulin no matter how much weight they lose, and even among t2 diabetics, many will never not have t2 diabetes because it has a huge genetic component as well.
Without insurance their insulin would cost $950 a month.
The worst part is that the discoverers of insulin for treating diabetes sold the patent for $1 saying that insulin “belongs to the world" until Eli Lily said "NOT IF I CAN HELP IT"
:youre-awful:
The worst part is that this bill doesn't cap insulin prices. It just subsidizes some copays of some insurance plans.
A long time ago in a shit town far far away, I spent a brief time contracting for Lilly UK. They had just settled a lawsuit out of court in the US and flew some bigwig in to the UK office to do a rally-the-troops meeting, which contained a phrase that stuck with me ever since:
:gulag: