Stop the increase of INSULIN price for patients.
Insulin is a vital drug, necessary for SURVIVAL for insulin dependent diabetics.
Insulin prices have soared more than 400% during the past decade, making access to this vital drug, without which Type 1 and Type 2 insulin dependent diabetics cannot survive, a real life-or-death plight.
Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, all makers of insulin as well as its distributors, insurance companies, benefits managers and retailers must find new ways to keep INSULIN available to all patients that need it.
People with diabetes who cannot afford to pay the current prices, sometimes reaching an expense of more than $1000.00 dollars a month on INSULIN ALONE, are being forced to choose between paying for food, rent or being able to maintain their health with the correct dose of insulin required DAILY to manage their condition. No human being should be subjected to that. This price gouging has to stop. Patients forced to go without insulin or to ration it, face dire consequences, such as blindness, kidney failure, a range of vascular diseases and the breakdown of organ functions due to ketoacidosis, coma and ultimately death. This profoundly alters the life not only of the person with diabetes, but their entire FAMILIES. In terms of our communities, we are looking at the face of a public health DISASTER.
We must all take action, to keep insulin available to ALL. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, all makers of insulin as well as its distributors, insurance companies, benefits managers and retailers must find new ways to keep INSULIN available to all patients that need it.
People with diabetes who cannot afford to pay the current prices, sometimes reaching an expense of more than $1000.00 dollars a month on INSULIN ALONE, are being forced to choose between paying for food, rent or being able to maintain their health with the correct dose of insulin required DAILY to manage their condition. No human being should be subjected to that. This price gouging has to stop. Patients forced to go without insulin or to ration it, face dire consequences, such as blindness, kidney failure, a range of vascular diseases and the breakdown of organ functions due to ketoacidosis, coma and ultimately death. This profoundly alters the life not only of the person with diabetes, but their entire FAMILIES. In terms of our communities, we are looking at the face of a public health DISASTER.
We must all take action, to keep insulin available to ALL. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
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