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More Americans can now get insulin for $35 (www.cnn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024.

Sanofi is joining the nation’s two other major insulin manufacturers in offering either price caps or savings programs that lower the cost of the drugs to $35 for many patients. The three drugmakers are also drastically lowering the list prices for their products.

The moves were announced in the spring, but some didn’t take effect until January 1.

Drugmakers have come under fire for years for steeply raising the price of insulin, which is relatively inexpensive to produce. The inflation-adjusted cost of the medication has increased 24% between 2017 and 2022, and spending on insulin has tripled in the past decade to $22.3 billion in 2022, according to the American Diabetes Association.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It still needs to be made 0$, or some symbolic price. One can't get high with an insulin. It's just a tax on people who were born into needing it to survive. I doubt taxes can't handle it. I don't think anyone can be against it with a proper messaging.

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Your comment reminds me of the Charlie Brown commercial where they all keep saying everything should be five cents...

I'm reasonably certain we could afford medications no problem if they were priced at say 150% of overhead or so. Profits could be had without any taxes needing levied to cover it.

Offering taxes as an answer is pretty much begging the med companies to gouge harder, because subsidies have pretty much become a blank check.

We need single payer so fucking bad... The guy that holds the patent wants his cut, the guy that makes the pill wants his cut, the guy that offers the insurance wants his cut, the pharmacy wants it's cut, the docs want their cut... Shit isn't cheaper in foreign countries because the sellers are discounting it, it's cheaper because there's a third as much shenanigans between the supplier and the purchaser.

I pay cash for one of my meds. It's $27 if I just pay for it. It's almost $150 if I go through insurance, and my copay for it is more than the bottle costs if I pay cash... That's clearly indicative of a broken system... Most of the others it's slightly cheaper for me to pay the copay, but my insurer is getting soaked on that deal, and that money comes out of our pockets somehow, somewhere (no, I don't pay cash for those... I'm paying for that fucking insurance... Ya know?)

[–] tartan@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone can be against it with a proper messaging.

You’d be surprised to find just how many cruel idiots there are.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Or you'd be surprised if there's a way to address cruel idiots and clowns directly. I don't know how. But it would be hell of a campaign, don't ya think? Mr Andrew's Deadly Insuline Circus, in your state, everywhere, shooting Ar-15 in the air wherever we go with a fresh batch of medicine. A welcome dose of madness.