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Reduce Insulin Costs

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  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Breena G. from Sussex, NJ writes:
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    Stop putting profits over people!
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  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Someone from Burke, VA signed.
  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Thomas F. from Massena, NY writes:
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    I recently had to go to Canada to buy my insulin because I was told by my insurance that I had fallen into the gap. Walmart in Massena NY wanted to charge me over $300 for a bottle of Humalog manufactured by Lilly . I called Walmart in Cornwall Ontario and they said yes they have it and to sell it over the counter with no script it was only $25 American. What's wrong with this picture? ? Same pharmacy, same insulin produced by the same company. Just different country. This is shameful and an embarrassment to our country. I've written my senator Chuck Schumer but I doubt I'll even get a response. Tom Forget
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  • Nov 18th, 2016
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  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Debi W. from Morris Plains, NJ writes:
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    It now will cost my 26 year old type 1 diabetic son $800-$1000 PER MONTH CO-PAY for his insulin. Our only alternative is to take him off insurance all together. This is an outrage and is deeply unfair. Please take a moment and stand up for affordable insulin. What a shame that a young man who volunteered so many years advocating for diabetic rights with the American Diabetes Association can't even afford his own insulin now. #mylifeisnotforprofit
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  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Debi W. from Morris Plains, NJ writes:
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    It now will cost my 26 year old type 1 diabetic son $800-$1000 PER MONTH CO-PAY for his insulin. Our only alternative is to take him off insurance all together. This is an outrage and is deeply unfair. Please take a moment and stand up for affordable insulin. What a shame that a young man who volunteered so many years advocating for diabetic rights with the American Diabetes Association can't even afford his own insulin now. #mylifeisnotforprofit
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  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Jea A. from Portland, OR signed.
  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Someone from Stony Brook, NY writes:
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    The costs must come down or thousands will die. I am a type 1 diabetic, and if I do not get my insulin, I die. It is that simple. Medicare part D has over a $4,000. donut hole and the two types of insulin needed cost almost $800. a month at minimum. This cannot continue.
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  • Nov 18th, 2016
    Allison E. from Lexington, SC signed.
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    Michael H. from Charlotte, NC signed.
  • Nov 17th, 2016
    Matthew D. from Hilliard, OH signed.
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    Diane G. from Columbia, SC signed.
  • Nov 17th, 2016
    Kathy L. from Oak Creek, WI writes:
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    Diabetes is a hard enough disease without the stress of the life saving medicine we need being unaffordable for everyone who needs it! What if it were someone you love who was in a situation where they could not afford their insulin, and you were lower middle class and couldn't help them? Would you want someone you love to be in that situation? Neither do the families of all of us out here struggling to get our insulin!
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  • Nov 16th, 2016
    K D. from Denver, CO writes:
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    Something needs to be done now. My father is retired on social security and his part D is no longer covering his insulin it will cost him $800 a month for each of his 2 subscriptions. This is insane that we are letting these drug companies rise these costs so much they have taken all generic or lesser older priced forms of insulin off the market so no one even has a choice for a lower priced medicine. So many people are going to die because of their greed.
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  • Nov 15th, 2016
    Matthew C. from Austin, TX signed.
  • Nov 14th, 2016
    John S. from Delmont, PA signed.
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    Connie D. from Randolph, MA signed.
  • Nov 13th, 2016
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  • Nov 12th, 2016
    Someone from Malvern, PA signed.
  • Nov 11th, 2016
    Kara O. from Chesterfield, VA signed.
  • Nov 11th, 2016
    Lindsey L. from Tahlequah, OK signed.
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    Toni H. from Tahlequah, OK signed.
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  • Nov 11th, 2016
    Someone from Overland Park, KS writes:
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    Insulin and other medical supplies are approaching the price of my mortgage. Do I keep my child healthy and alive or a roof over my family's head? PLEASE put the care back in health care and stop people from getting rich off our battle.
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  • Nov 11th, 2016
    Someone from Buffalo, NY writes:
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    Yet another situation that shows a growing disregard for the very people of the country that are the HEART of what once made the United States great. This behavior is not only wrong, it is shameful, and I refuse to believe that our governing bodies do not know of it. Let the rich get richer, and watch the poor that are the reason those who have money, just get more money at the expense of lives. A business does not profit solely off of having a product or service to sell, bit makes money by the hard work and long or in recent times, ever increasing shorter hours of work that the middle class and poor do. But the ones who profit, do not see that their truly strongest asset are those they hire to work for them, they only see the 'bottom line'. Money... WE THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE used to be something this country stood tall for. Now, they are just words and the middle class and poor suffer for the chosen few. FOR SHAME on this behavior... For SHAME!
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  • Nov 9th, 2016
    Someone from Berthoud, CO writes:
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    Hundreds of percent increase in the last 3 years when manufacturing costs remain the same is criminal. There is no explanation other than price gauging by greedy Novo Nordisk and other insulin manufacturers.
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  • Nov 9th, 2016
    Bryant P. from Ponca City, OK signed.
  • Nov 8th, 2016
    Amanda D. from Groton, NY signed.
  • Nov 8th, 2016
    Someone from lewisburg, TN writes:
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    Anyone with Diabetes should be able to get this medication with little or no cost, you are killing people because they aren't rich enough to afford it? Where is the humanity and care this nation was built on?
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  • Nov 7th, 2016
    Merisa S. from Las Animas, CO writes:
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    Merisa singer shares with lower the cost
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  • Nov 7th, 2016
    Jennifer H. from Canyon Country, CA writes:
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    It was cheaper to have type 1 diabetes on Medical then having "real" insurance.
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  • Nov 7th, 2016
    Jennifer H. from Canyon Country, CA signed.
  • Nov 6th, 2016
    Robert R. from Penfield, NY writes:
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    Only one insurance company out of 6 researched will cover my insulin, Apidra. In addition the retail price has more than doubled in the past 5 years. I am a type 1 insulin dependent pump user. This is madness, greedy madness.
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  • Nov 6th, 2016
    Someone from Grand Rapids, MI writes:
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    $500+ per month is outrageous.
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  • Nov 5th, 2016
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  • Nov 3rd, 2016
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