Health Aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The Inflation Reduction Act is the Biden administration’s marquee plan to lower health care costs and fight climate change, but as Michael Sainato reports, it won’t tackle the high price of insulin in the United States – thanks to Republicans: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Erin Connelly had to ration insulin while transitioning to a different health insurance plan. When Connelly heard the Biden administration was planning to cap the price of the life-saving drug, she was delighted. She was soon to be disappointed.

The prices of insulin has soared in the US in recent decades and is more than eight times higher in the US than in 32 comparable, high-income nations, according to a Rand Corporation study.

With an average list price of $98.70 per unit in the US, compared with $7.52 in the UK, US insulin sales account for nearly half the pharmaceutical industry’s insulin revenue, though the US makes up only about 15% of the global market.
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/12/insulin-bill-price-cap-republicans-vote-against

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Get your insulin in Mexico or Canada folks!

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Well if government is fucking with the economy instead of allowing it to do it’s own thing it always gets worse and health care prices always go up.

 

[Webster]

Well if government is fucking with the economy instead of allowing it to do it’s own thing it always gets worse and health care prices always go up.

Tell that to someone who needs insulin for their type-1 diabetes...

The prices of insulin has soared in the US in recent decades and is more than eight times higher in the US than in 32 comparable, high-income nations, according to a Rand Corporation study.

Why is it most every other industrialized Western country can cap insulin costs but Americans have to pay full freight for it? Is that supposed be part of the "tender mercies" of the free market?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Tell that to someone who needs insulin for their type-1 diabetes...

Give me someone to tell, their insulin is expensive because of a government fucking up the free market healthcare system.

Why is it most every other industrialized Western country can cap insulin costs but Americans have to pay full freight for it? Is that supposed be part of the "tender mercies" of the free market?

It was the deal our government made with big pharma when they did the research and development here.
The Big pharma that the left hated and despised more than a conservative and taxes before the pandemic. But then during the pandemic it was such a love affair liberal women were getting wet panties and liberal men couldn’t keep their hard ons in check.

 

[Webster]

But then during the pandemic it was such a love affair liberal women were getting wet panties and liberal men couldn’t keep their hard ons in check.