re: Cost of 90 day supply of insulin went from $300 to $2800 in one month

may I suggest changing insurance?

or, if your plan requires you to meet your deductible first, I could see that as well. my old insurance was like that. huge payments in early part of year then everything 'free after that

If it were only that easy. My company sponsored choices include several levels of High deductible and a PPO that out would require changing all of our long time doctors to our choice from a list of mostly Patel’s who are scattered around in run down buildings. Aetna classifies Dexcom and Omni as DME, then happily takes my premiums like a fricking Soprano

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this the thread where Republicans advocate for gov’t intervention into the free market? 

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We don't have a free market. The government makes sure of that.

And the suppliers get federal funding.

This was no different then getting states to raise drinking age. You get funding, you raise the age.

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The consequence of Biden's order is that if your son happens to be a low income, non-commercially insured patient who goes to an FQHC for medical care and that FQHC participates in 340B, you'd be, for two months, paying the same for insulin as you paid for the entire Trump administration instead of an indeterminately discounted amount.

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So basically the people that have been dealt a bad hand by white supremacy. Which is part of the Democrats base.

Congrats I guess.

This is mainly for Manchin and his vote when they need it.

His daughter is the CEO of Mylan who just released a new longer lasting insulin drug in September 2020.

They also produce the epipen.

Republicans claim to be for the little people while nickel and dining them out of existence.

Democrats claim to be for the little people while enjoying the company of elites and excluding everyone without at least $1MM.

If you think either side is actively working to help you, you haven’t been paying attention for at least as many years as you claim to be old.

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That will teach all those Right wing trump supporting diabetics.

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Probably more truth to that than you think.

Not that race should be a factor, but the map you showed doesn’t support your stance. Urban areas, where the vast majority of these are located, aren’t typically white in terms of demographics.

For someone on limited income it is huge. They wrote my wife a script for 1200. We cannot afford that kind of expense.

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Not that race should be a factor, but the map you showed doesn’t support your stance. Urban areas, where the vast majority of these are located, aren’t typically white in terms of demographics.

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Yeah. I wrote "supremely disproportionally likely to be serving rural communities." The disproportion I'm writing about is regarding population. Look at these two maps.





If FQHCs tightly tracked urban areas, these two maps would look the same, but they don't, so they don't. If you had given more than a few minutes of thought to the financial model of primary care practices or if you knew anything at all about rural medicine in the US in the last twenty years it would be blindly obvious why FQHCs are the backbone of primary care for many areas that could not support private physicians.