Posted on 09/17/2021 7:32:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
While the California recall, Nicki Minaj’s thoughts on the COVID vaccine and testicles, and General Milley’s insane rogue operation are dominating headlines, the Biden administration is quietly moving ahead with a plan that will cost many taxpayers a lot at the pharmacy.
This follows the media’s complete ignoring of Mississippi launching a lawsuit against insulin makers for actions that allegedly held insulin prices up artificially high, the media’s constant depiction of Democrats as the only party focused on drug prices even though a bunch of proposals Democrats are now pursuing actually emanated from Donald Trump, the media ignoring Sen. Charles Grassley having a lengthy history of going after pharmaceutical companies over high prices and even everyone bar CNN— for the duration of a live interview anyway— ignoring Mitt Romney saying he wanted to work with Democrats on drug pricing literally right after Election Day 2020.
Roughly 10 percent of the American public has diabetes, and a new report indicates that the country’s three major insulin makers are jacking up their profits by refusing to sell it at a discount to a bunch of community pharmacies. The federal government has already slapped the companies for doing this, said it’s unlawful, and told them to knock it off. But of course, they are litigating because according to Eli Lilly (one of the big insulin-makers), they’re earning higher revenue while their discount-denying policies remain in effect.
For the record, Lilly started cutting off the discounts in question in July 2020.
Between 1999 and 2019, the report says, insulin manufacturers increased product prices by 1200%. They also seem to have worked in tandem to hike prices in a way that seems like it might violate antitrust laws (but even if it doesn’t, was pretty ruthless for diabetes patients). A 2020 Senate Finance Committee report showed that when one company increased its insulin price, then the other two would follow suit. This pattern applied with these 340B discounted sales: According to this new report, Lilly started cutting off 340B discounts in July 2020, then AstraZeneca did the same in October 2020, and Sanofi did it in March 2021.
So, why the media silence? Largely because it’s boring. They can pursue an agenda with the fallout of the California recall. They can check off a lot of interest boxes with the Nicki Minaj story (especially since Tucker Carlson is now involved). They can continue making Ron DeSantis their chosen opponent in 2024. But, there just isn’t anything that sexy to them where the quite-possibly-impending insulin price spike is concerned. It doesn’t interest them, and it doesn’t really interest the politicians.
But it should interest you, because at the end of the day it’s you or your family that has to pay for the price hike. And that will be yet another thing that falls on the Democrats’ shoulders because they are the ones in power. And the Republicans can at least say they did something when they were in power – the Biden administration is, after all, reversing a Trump-era rule, which is the catalyst for the upcoming price hike.
This affects you. You should really let your Representatives and Senators know it affects you.
HUH? So all meds are NOT free during the CONvid-19-2.0 scamdemic? (Yeah, I know for sure they aren’t!)
Diabetes disproportionately affects black people. They are sometimes the least able to afford insulin. I volunteer at a free clinic, and often see patients with serious, preventable complications because they could not afford insulin, prior to Trump’s changes.
Of course he is. That’s why he tore Trump’s EO, in the matter, up.
WE’ve never had a tyrant in the Oval Office but have certainly had our share of despot wannabes and screw-ups.
I wonder how long before the masses of sheople realize they been conned yet again.
Perhaps as the camp gates slam behind them, they will have an epiphany.. a little late maybe but..
FauXChi makes Hannibal Lecter look like a nice guy when it comes to his ghoulish nature, someone you would enjoy going out to dinner with, just don’t stick around if he orders chianti.
The frog is about ready to boil...................
How about having real free trade so people can legally buy medication from foreign sources? I’d like three months of insulin, a big bottle of horse dewormer and some malaria medication for all of those globull warming mosquitoes.
Not downgrade any illness or treatment but, look at the price at the pump and my grocery bill has gone through the roof, my coffee cream alone has gone $1 in the past 3 weeks. This is insanity!
Well, they voted for this. Or at least they tolerated a suspicious election. These things have consequences. There is no helping the wide swath of stupid in this country anymore.
You know what’s going to happen.
Black folks with diabetes will start dying in huge numbers and the Dems will blame Trump for it................
Trump fought to being insulin prices down. But the ads for the 2020 election said that he was going to RAISE insulin proces, with the usual sob story actor pedding fear porn.
DemonRats have always been in Big Pharma’s back pocket.
Government-enforced monopolies - its the progressive way
And not a single frog will jump.
“Heather Bresch, Joe Manchin’s Daughter, Played Direct Part in EpiPen Price Inflation Scandal
Heather Bresch, the former president and CEO of the drugmaker Mylan, worked directly with the CEO of Pfizer to keep prices of the company’s EpiPen product artificially high, according to new documents released as part of an ongoing lawsuit.
The documents also show Bresch approving a scheme to force customers, captured by the company’s monopoly, to purchase two EpiPens at once, regardless of medical need. The EpiPen is an auto-injectable device that injects epinephrine into the body and can be the difference between life or death for a person suffering a severe allergic reaction”
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/07/joe-manchin-epipen-price-heather-bresch/
Or fava beans.
Recently, my wife's employer changed insurance carrier. The new carrier did not cover the insulin that she had been using successfully. The pharmacy presented a bill for $300 for a week of insulin. A call to the carrier allowed identification of what the do cover. The prescription was updated. Fully covered again, but the new insulin is less effective. It has taken months to dial it in again.
The advent of the vax mandates may drive both my wife and myself to exit employment and retire. The increased insulin costs are going to have an impact. I had planned to work another year. My employment is not worth being forced to take the clot shot.
Not Old enough for Medicare?
or
Not Poor enough for Medicaid?...................
Trying to appease Joe Manchin.
They simply do not care about people and their health.
It’s all about money.
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