“Nice Diabetic Kid You Got There, Sport”
By Mitch Berg
“Sure would be a shame if you couldn’t afford insulin for her”:
“Pass my bill, and it can all go away…”
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February 11th, 2022 at 5:52 am
Want to lower the cost of insulin?
Put a $10 tax on Happy Meals
$50 on Popeyes tendies boxes (less piles of trash in Walmart parking lots; bonus!)
$100 on “Super size”
February 11th, 2022 at 7:26 am
BBB is Dead, Dead, Dead. Deader than Biden’s “For the People” election reform act. Deader even than those Afghanis who fell off the airplane during Biden’s Great Bagram Bugout.
This is what a failed president look like, expending his dwindling political capital pushing for laws that will never pass congress.
February 11th, 2022 at 7:40 am
This is what a failed president look like
Indeed. I don’t recall ever having seen something like this before. I’m sure the trolls are frantically copy-and-pasting all the examples when Trump, Bush, Reagan, et al acted like a mafioso don. I await their whatabouts.
However, this headline, Biden Stops Trump Order To Slash Price Of Insulin, EpiPen, seems important. It’s from 13, 14 months ago. Has the policy been changed? Or is this tweet what became of it?
February 11th, 2022 at 10:04 am
Isn’t that extortion?
Quid pro quo?
Pay for play?
What ever phrase the left would use to pounce on Republicans for a similar statement?
February 11th, 2022 at 10:24 am
“Isn’t that extortion? Quid pro quo? Pay for play?”
Does this also describe President Brandons interactions with the Chinese government?
February 11th, 2022 at 10:38 am
The new name for the bill is apparently “Build Crack Better.”
It’s worth noting that even in the weird universe of prescription drug prices, where makers and insurers make money by granting bigger “discounts” while jacking up overall prices, insulin is an outlier because the FDA for whatever reason, the FDA has more or less allowed or encouraged generics to go off the market. Otherwise, the stuff should be only slightly more expensive than the metformin, torvastatin, and licinopril I take every day.
But that said, Swiftee’s got a point that the scope of the problem WOULD be reduced if we did some common sense things like stopping corn and sugar beet subsidies. I actually calculated once that even corn farmers would benefit–they’d lose a bit in the price of their crop, but they’d get it back as their medical expenses dropped.
February 11th, 2022 at 4:41 pm
Funny thing, insulin. I have a kid with Type I, so I know a lot about this.
The biggest driver of cost? Convenience. Nothing more.
These fast acting types of insulin allow you to inject right before eating, and not worry about timing, etc. They replaced the 50x cheaper older types of insulin that are not under patent protection, so they don’t make Big Pharma the big bucks. Those required a little bit of knowledge that you wouldn’t be eating for 15 minutes, but given modern sensibilities, saving 15 minutes is worth it, isn’t it? /sarc
When these new types came up for approval the FDA hesitated, stating that approving these would cause massive cost increases. But the lobbyists prevailed, and these days even most diabetics don’t know that the older stuff is available.