Eli Lily caps insulin at $35 a month! This is pretty amazing. Kudos to Bernie and everyone else who worked so hard to make it happen. Thinking today of those who already died because they couldn't get enough insulin. There are 68,000 people who die each year from lack of healthcare in the US. 18 million people cannot afford to fill the prescriptions ordered by their doctors. Insulin capped at $35 is huge and important, but it's just the beginning. The goal is universal healthcare in America, just as there is in every other advanced democracy.
Bernie Sanders
 @BernieSanders
2 Mar 2023
In 2019, I traveled by bus up to Canada with a group of diabetics to purchase insulin for a fraction of what they were paying here in the United States. Today, Eli Lily has significantly lowered its insulin price to $35 a month. Grassroots pressure works. Let's keep going.

Mar 2, 2023 · 11:47 AM UTC

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Now get it down to $0 and put Eli Lily out of business.
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Wouldn't have happened without Bernie. But make sure they keep the deal, not wait til the pressure goes away and raise prices again.
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He just jumped on the coattails of other senators doing actual work.
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It was 68,000 ten years or more ago. There is exactly NO DOUBT the number is up to 100,000 by now. Probably more.
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Charles Dickens patting himself on the back and here you are cheerleading for him. There's no doubt you'll be endorsing Joe Biden in 2024 after sheepherding your low-intelligent following.
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Richest country in history and this what u celebrate. All democrats are corporate democrats, if you think there are genuinely progressives in the most powerful corporate owned political party in the world, you're an idiot
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Trump already did that. Did you forget, or did you think that I had?
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Now let's see him take on AbbVie, a company that makes Armour Thyroid, a common thyroid medication for women that has been around for decades. In 20 years the price has gone from $8/mo. to $55/mo. It's criminal. This mainly affects women--who still have less money than men, BTW.
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seriously as someone forced to find alternate health care for my diabetic husband this has been no easy or inexpensive path #healthcare forward
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