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OK, I got lazy…I liked the look of the chart. Note that this is a FOUR YEAR OLD IMAGE and the current cost is more like $300 a dose. It’s not like it is new and expensive to make – a vial costs less than $10 to make according to virtually every source I could find dated 2021-2022 (older sources quote lower) .<\/p>\n

Amid the proposed changes to the plan was to set the $35 per month cap on insulin, the pricy medication needed to treat diabetes. Seven Republican senators voted with all 50 Democrats to keep the price ceiling in the legislation: Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cindy Hyde Smith of Mississippi, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Dan Sullivan of Alaska.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Now, one of the few things I like in the Dem’s new Spend Money Like Coke Whores act is that they are giving Medicare the right to negotiate prescription prices. Like most of us, I know people who are having to choose between buying prescriptions and buying other essentials (disclosure: ONE of my wife’s meds lists at $14,000 a month, another $6,000) and the thought that the single largest Pharma customer, Medicare, has been forbidden to negotiate pricing is ridiculous.\u00a0 I remember the wage and price controls in the ’70s, when prices were artifically controlled at less than cost and shortages occurred. But with a profit margin of 2800% I don’t see that happening with insulin.\u00a0 Hope someone out there can give a reasonable explanation of why voting against this was a Good Thing.<\/p>\n

Update before publication – believe I mentioned the other day the Republicans were going to use the “Byrd rule” to challenge non-budget spending items in the proposed bill – looks like this is one of the items they chose, claiming the Democrats are making poitics over a minor point.\u00a0 Okay… so what are all those D and R meatheads going to DO about insulin pricing?<\/p>\n

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