Can anyone control the cost of insulin?

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U.S. insulin costs per patient nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016, to an average annual cost of more than $5,700, study finds

 

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It was way too much money before it doubled.

Congress can

Not until corporate greed is put in check. All drug companies must be regulated.

First they get them on the insurance premiums, then they get them again on insulin, testing strips, and equipment. Cost thousands a month to be a type 1 diabetic. Greedy Pharma Bro, meanwhile is chilling on his yacht sipping daiquiris.

It's all about population control and the pharmaceutical companies are getting richer. Its immoral and criminal. Where in Mexico or other countries gets it more cheaper. The system is corrupt

Hey, it's capitalism, baby. Happy dying if you can't pay. 😡😡😡

Check cost in Canada. Then order insulin online.

Donnie is all over it, give him a piece of the action, watch it happen lol

Costs a lot for all the lobbying, kickbacks, and congressmen votes...

Totally ridiculous and Narcan is free.

Abolish pharmacy benefit managers

Non gender assuming pronoun person appears to need more than insulin to help ratings and image. NoCollusion maga2020

Insulin: $32 in Canada with universal healthcare vs $300 in the US. Wonder why Americans are desperate for a better system? Fairer costs for prescription meds?

Barbaric

Lots of cheap insulin in Canada. Thank goodness we have socialism.

Obummer Care....

I guess that's a way to control the population. Close the border...kill healthcare...raise medicine prices...poor people die...middle class die also...may take a little longer...Old fat slug white dudes rule the country!!! 😎😂😡😂😎

Trump’s message is clear: if you can’t afford your medicine, go ahead and die already.

Yes the government

MarkMeadows and Jim_Jordan told Big Pharma not to cooperate with the hearings. As long as the GOP covers for them in exchange for huge campaign donations, what hope do we have?

Why didn’t OBAMA lower the price?

But as long as big pharma makes money it’s justified. Disgusting

How’s that whole Obamacare thing workin out? 🤦‍♂️

I believe that would be during the Obama administration.

But trump fixed healthcare, better healthcare for less money, just like he promised... right

When GOP controlled both houses of Congress

Wasn't the affordable care act supposed to fix this?

It's cartel price setting between three firms. The FDA is staged by Pharma hacks who won't approve generic insulin. If we made price setting illegal and force a generic into the market, the prices go down. This would also disappear with monopsonistic Medicare price negotiating

And there is absolutely o excuse for it. Insulin has been around a very long time and is not expensive to produce. Back when I started in nursing in the 1950s it was dirt cheap even for the time. It is a disgrace and immoral.

Thanks Obama

Absolutely criminal greed! Insulin should be free or on a sliding scale. We need Universal Health Care.

Easy: stop eating sugar, bread, pasta and cabs and you won't need insulin!

thankstrump

Thanks Obama and the reps who have sold us out to pharmaceutical lobbyists.

Seems like racketeering to me

You can, metrosexual guy with glasses!

We are being ruined by drug lords. And they own the senate.

Just like tuition, that’s the side effect of insurance: money is available and they take it. Clever, isn’t it? NoHateJustTruth

Because of Obamacare. Read Joseph Stiglitz. Sweet deal for the Obama administration's corporate masters.

That's absolutely suspicious and unbelievable overcharging

If John Brennan is found guilty of wrong doing what does that do to MS DNC credibility

Hmmm, and yet OBAMA did NOTHING! 😂

How can that not be a death sentence for some?

No. American drug prices are for profit and market driven .

Let's change the subject about spying on the Trump campaign!

THANKS OBAMA

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