“After years of tough talk about taking on insulin makers, Republicans have once against wilted in the face of heat from Big Pharma.'
. That means those 14 percent are spending at least 40 percent of their monthly income on insulin.
Average insulin prices have more than doubled in the last 10 years, and the cost of Humalog, a fast-acting kind of insulin, has skyrocketed since it debuted in 1996 at $21 per vial. “Now [Humalog] costs more than 10 times that,” said Kasia Lipska, an associate professor at Yale School of Medicine. “This is not inflation, there’s much more going on.”
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