BALTIMORE — Maryland Medicare patients are paying 4.4 times more for brand-name diabetes medications than patients in Australia, according to a new report prepared by the staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
They also found that on average, uninsured patients buying a popular insulin, Novolog Flexpen, will pay $650 for a month's supply compared to $28 in Australia.
Diabetics need insulin to survive, but for some people, they just can't afford it at today's prices.
Dr. Sherita Hill Golden, Executive Vice-Chair for the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has seen patients ration their supply to make it last longer or stop using their medications.
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5 comments:
Thanks big pharma.
Eating and life style habit changes like getting up and moving and loosing 40 lbs would make this a non-issue. I was told I was diabetic and had high blood pressure and onset COPD whatever that is and I just got up and started walking then jogging and running and I feel and look like I'm 40 again.....ok 50 but at 70 I would prefer to blow out a knee or break a hip than be stuck on pills. I just planted 15 trees on my property with yes a SHOVEL. Get up and move people don't be a compliant victim. If you wake up and manage to waddle out of bed you can change your life. It's something to do if nothing else. I feel like I have a second life !
I have the luxury of 2.5 million in my retirement account but that's not the point. Get up and get get jiggy MOVE PEOPLE.
People with type 1 diabetes (juvenile)don’t have that choice, they have to have insulin to stay alive.
Our representatives in Congress could fix this problem on all the drugs that we need, not just Insulin. We pay more for drugs than any other country. But big Pharma has 2 lobbyists for every Congressperson and I'm sure the "benefits" provided to not upset the apple cart keep our representatives well able to continue to pay out the a** for these drugs. It is such a coincidence that when they get elected they are just regular "middle-class people" and yet, when they leave office they are "multi-millionaires." Their salaries for being in Congress did not lend itself to the millionaire status. Don't they understand that like all good "Ponzi schemes" it will collapse when we all die off because we can't afford the medicine. Then there will be nobody to "make a killing off of."
but w can provide narcan for addicts.
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