Dems just capped Insulin prices

[RhysWirral]

https://www.healio.com/news/endocrin...t-35-per-month

“Among the bill’s provisions, beginning in 2023, Medicare Part D and private group or individual health care plans cannot apply a deductible or charge more than $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin. For Medicare Part D, plans could charge no more than $35 for whatever insulin products they cover in 2023 and 2024. In 2025, all insulin products will fall under the cap under a drug negotiation provision also included in the bill.”

Fair play in my opinion. This will help millions of Americans.

[r0bo]

Good start. Some of the brand name insulins are insanely expensive. Medicare sets the tone for a lot of pricing

[r0bo]

Still shtty. Until someone can walk in and buy insulin for $5 a bottle without insurance it is a scam.

Insulin is classified as a chemical, not a drug. Therefore it's patent does not expire and a generic form cannot be made.

Second part isn't true. Not sure where you read that.

[vickissick07]

Trump already gave us rock bottom insulin prices only for Dems to fuk it up. Congrats they fixed something they broke.

[stevebec]

Still shtty. Until someone can walk in and buy insulin for $5 a bottle without insurance it is a scam.

Insulin is classified as a chemical, not a drug. Therefore it's patent does not expire and a generic form cannot be made.

Chemical patents expire in 20 years. Human insulin is not patented, and most of the synthetics have either expired or will expire soon.

https://haiweb.org/wp-content/upload...ulinpatent.pdf

Generic insulin was just approved this past summer:

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/...eneric-insulin

[ymer]

Chemical patents expire in 20 years. Human insulin is not patented, and most of the synthetics have either expired or will expire soon.

https://haiweb.org/wp-content/upload...ulinpatent.pdf

Generic insulin was just approved this past summer:

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/...eneric-insulin

So prices were bound to drop without their intervention and they decided to take credit for it.

[Sal29]

Democrats cap medication prices for real Americans while Conservatives and Republicans cap taxes for billionaires and corporations that already steal trillions of taxpayer money in subsidies and tax fraud.

[rocketfish]

can't hate on lower prescription prices

[Cleveland33]

Democrats cap medication prices for real Americans while Conservatives and Republicans cap taxes for billionaires and corporations that already steal trillions of taxpayer money in subsidies and tax fraud.

it's not tax fraud if it is legal

[Mr Beer]

Imagine the richest nation on Earth charging people $100s for basic life-saving medication, what a joke.

[Sal29]

it's not tax fraud if it is legal

Tax Evasion is NOT LEGAL but 99.9999+% of Billionaires and Giant Corporations do it.

[NYPat]

Democrats cap medication prices for real Americans while Conservatives and Republicans cap taxes for billionaires and corporations that already steal trillions of taxpayer money in subsidies and tax fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4OfD-wmGs

[arn710]

Still shtty. Until someone can walk in and buy insulin for $5 a bottle without insurance it is a scam.

You can walk into any walmart and buy a bottle of generic insulin for cheap. Its $25 here

If you want designer drugs, you have to pay for them. That's how innovation works

[AdvancedDreamer]

Considering that more people will get diabetes in the near future, this makes sense.

[RhysWirral]

Republicans have to come back with something better than CRT because if I’m paying less taxes next year, I’m voting blue.

[azzspankr]

Why isn't insulin free? The v a x is

[leafs43]

Insulin pricing is insane, but somehow our friends at Big Pharma will just say they can't produce it at that cost.


The patent law is the only way to change the pricing on insulin.

[bubba g]

https://www.healio.com/news/endocrin...t-35-per-month

“Among the bill’s provisions, beginning in 2023, Medicare Part D and private group or individual health care plans cannot apply a deductible or charge more than $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin. For Medicare Part D, plans could charge no more than $35 for whatever insulin products they cover in 2023 and 2024. In 2025, all insulin products will fall under the cap under a drug negotiation provision also included in the bill.”

Fair play in my opinion. This will help millions of Americans.

Trump was gonna get the price so it was like water. When he pressured pharmaceutical companies into complying with the favored nations clause...

Then the election occured..

[John Promise]

2023? So diabetics have to wait more than a year before they can afford their medication?

[Sal29]

Trump was gonna get the price so it was like water. When he pressured pharmaceutical companies into complying with the favored nations clause...

Then the election occured..

Fake News just like when Deep State Donald claimed he was against the Iraq War even though he was the biggest supporter and cheerleader of the Iraq War in the US.

[ImBunky]

https://www.healio.com/news/endocrin...t-35-per-month

“Among the bill’s provisions, beginning in 2023, Medicare Part D and private group or individual health care plans cannot apply a deductible or charge more than $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin. For Medicare Part D, plans could charge no more than $35 for whatever insulin products they cover in 2023 and 2024. In 2025, all insulin products will fall under the cap under a drug negotiation provision also included in the bill.”

Fair play in my opinion. This will help millions of Americans.

Doesn't sound like the price of insulin is going to go down, just that billed by the insurance companies to the insured. Likely insurance costs will go up for everyone, or taxes in the case of Medicare.

[Realclout]

https://www.healio.com/news/endocrin...t-35-per-month

“Among the bill’s provisions, beginning in 2023, Medicare Part D and private group or individual health care plans cannot apply a deductible or charge more than $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin. For Medicare Part D, plans could charge no more than $35 for whatever insulin products they cover in 2023 and 2024. In 2025, all insulin products will fall under the cap under a drug negotiation provision also included in the bill.”



Fair play in my opinion. This will help millions of Americans.

Didn't trump do the same and they repealed it day one JUST lol.

[StoliFun]

Two more weeks. Imagine the smell. Wheaties, breakfast of champions.

[StoliFun]

I was told this by a pharmacist that is partly autistic and extremely anal about making sure details are correct. I should have double checked him as it appears other miscers are posting sources that it is not true.

You should go piss on his car door handle. Then don't tell him until weeks later.

[GreatOldOne]

Fake News just like when Deep State Donald claimed he was against the Iraq War even though he was the biggest supporter and cheerleader of the Iraq War in the US.

He changed his public statements about the Iraq war when it started wrecking his junk stocks.

[Polaris]

Two more weeks. Imagine the smell. Wheaties, breakfast of champions.

[Dogkrack]

capped what? in their fantasy bill thats doa in the senate? just fukin lol at you pathetic sacks of **** trying to eek a win out of legislation that will NEVER be law.

just fukin L O L

[Dan_S]

Didn't trump do the same and they repealed it day one JUST lol.

Yes.

If you really want a conspiracy theory, this whole thing was because he fuked with the pharma profits and so they released covid-19 to oust him and then make record profits.

[Realclout]

Yes.

If you really want a conspiracy theory, this whole thing was because he fuked with the pharma profits and so they released covid-19 to oust him and then make record profits.

I agree completely, THOUGHT I was the only ONE that saw the IRONY in this.

[RhysWirral]

Didn't trump do the same and they repealed it day one JUST lol.

Yesterday, President Trump announced the White House had struck a deal with drug manufacturers to cap the price of insulin at $35 for diabetic Medicare enrollees. The Trump administration’s move, however, is nothing more than a political stunt designed to place a band-aid on a bullet wound. With more than 40 million people nationwide in need of affordable insulin, this proposal only does so for about 3 million Medicare-participating seniors.