Thank you, Rep. Norm Thurston, for sponsoring H.B. 207 to reduce the price of insulin. I am diabetic and elderly, living on Social Security of $1,171 each month, after my Medicare and Medicare Advantage premiums are deducted. I am very thankful for both Social Security and Medicare.
I am prescribed two different insulins. I pay a co-pay $135 each month for one kind (my insurance pays another $432) and my co-pay for the second one just increased in December, from $45 to $245 per month (with my insurance plan paying another $209.) Why?
Insulin was first used as medication for diabetes in 1921. What new research and development costs have suddenly justified the cost to jump from $45 to $245?
Nelda Bishop, Bountiful