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.
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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Replying to @marwilliamson
At 350% markup? Imagine how cheap insulin would be at 100% markup.
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Actually Biden froze Trumps $35 insulin plan... and then Biden made it his own, you're all wrong.
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I like to think @DrJohnAbramson’s book “Sickening” had a lot to do with it - exposing Eli Lilly’s cartel-like behavior in its egregious pricing of a product that is no better than the insulin of 50 years ago.
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Still sold at a 350% markup
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Trump actually brought the price down which big pharma was angry then Biden reversed it
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What are the details on that? Capped for whom? For people with Medicare or insurance only? That means insurance pays the rest ofvthe exorbitant price and the uninsured are screwed.
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Insulin sales make up a shrinking proportion of Lilly’s business...as investors focus on the company’s new obesity & diabetes drug, viewed as a potential mega-blockbuster, & an Alzheimer’s disease therapy currently under review by the FDA. #Insulin4all barrons.com/articles/eli-lil…
Replying to @marwilliamson
I notice you didn't give credit to the originator of this, Trump...