Biden Retracts Trump’s Policies Lowering Insulin, Epi-Pen Costs

[Elderberry]

Legal Insurrection  by Leslie Eastman June 12, 2021

Biden administration is not moving swiftly on Trump plan for Canadian drug imports, either.

This week, it is being reported the White House is moving forward with removing a health care policy established by President Donald Trump designed to bring down the price of insulin and epi-pens.

    Biden’s bid to retract the rule was approved on Monday, as reported by Politico, with the expectation that the Department of Health and Human Services could publish the retraction within the coming days.

    The measure, signed off on under the previous administration in December, aimed to require some 340B community health centers to deliver savings to low-income patients for insulin and epinephrine in a bid to bring down unaffordable prices.

    Spokespeople for the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not return FOX Business’ request for comment.

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[skeeter]

My son’s father in law is a big anti-Trump guy and also is a full blow diabetic.

Nice going, Bill.

[Sled Dog]

Those diabetics who voted for the Rodents deserve to die.    Nature never really forgives stupidity.   It's often a fatal condition.

BUT....if they didn't before, I'm that they'll vote for Democrats after they're dead.

[mountaineer]

Reminder: it was Joe Manchin's daughter (then-CEO of Mylan Labs) who raised the Epi-Pen prices to astronomical levels in the first place.

[skeeter]

Reminder: it was Joe Manchin's daughter (then-CEO of Mylan Labs) who raised the Epi-Pen prices to astronomically levels in the first place.

so we should expect Joe to suddenly warm to removing the filibuster?

[jafo2010]

All part of the Biden MAKE AMERICA SUCK AGAIN policy.  Wrecking Ball Joe will leave little after four years of destruction.

[Hoodat]

My son’s father in law is a big anti-Trump guy and also is a full blow diabetic.

Nice going, Bill.

Make sure you let him know.  Every day.

[Sled Dog]

Insulin retail price is something like $600 a month without insurance.

Don't know what it used to be.   

They've been making insulin since the fifties.    Which means the patents as in public domain and someone should be tooling up to make some generic brand of insulin at much lower cost. 

Ask why Congress isn't asking why this isn't happening.

[libertybele]

so we should expect Joe to suddenly warm to removing the filibuster?

I say we can count on it.

[thackney]

Insulin retail price is something like $600 a month without insurance.

Don't know what it used to be.   

They've been making insulin since the fifties.    Which means the patents as in public domain and someone should be tooling up to make some generic brand of insulin at much lower cost. 

Ask why Congress isn't asking why this isn't happening.

The two doctors decided to find out why no one makes generic insulin. A University of Toronto medical team discovered insulin in 1921, and in 1923, the university, which held the first patent, gave drug companies the right to manufacture it and patent any improvements. In the 1930s and 1940s, pharmaceutical companies developed long-acting forms that allowed most patients to take a single daily injection. In the 1970s and 1980s, manufacturers improved the purity of cow- and pig-extracted insulin. Since then, several companies have developed synthetic analogs.

Biotech insulin is now the standard in the U.S., the authors say. Patents on the first synthetic insulin expired in 2014, but these newer forms are harder to copy, so the unpatented versions will go through a lengthy Food and Drug Administration approval process and cost more to make. When these insulins come on the market, they may cost just 20 to 40 percent less than the patented versions, Riggs and Greene write.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_people_with_diabetes_cant_buy_generic_insulin#:~:text=A%20University%20of%20Toronto%20medical,it%20and%20patent%20any%20improvements.

[Hoodat]

Insulin retail price is something like $600 a month without insurance.

It's also something like $600 a month with insurance.  The problem is that the insurance company has become the customer, not the patient.  And if there is no insurance company to pay, the patient gets stuck with the insurance company price.

Ask why Congress isn't asking why this isn't happening.

Are you kidding?  Congress caused this.  In 2010, they allowed Big Pharma to collude in drafting an insurance bill forcing people to carry insurance, with government not only subsidizing that insurance, but also setting the guidelines on which drugs get covered.  It allowed each pharmaceutical company to jack up the prices of select drugs, thus guaranteeing windfall profits for those portions of their overall portfolio.

The Big Lie of Obamacare was that it would bring down costs.  But in reality, it increased them.  By design.

For the consumer, the best thing the government could possibly do here is to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE HEALTH CARE MARKET!

[Sled Dog]

It's also something like $600 a month with insurance.  The problem is that the insurance company has become the customer, not the patient.  And if there is no insurance company to pay, the patient gets stuck with the insurance company price.


Are you kidding?  Congress caused this.  In 2010, they allowed Big Pharma to collude in drafting an insurance bill forcing people to carry insurance, with government not only subsidizing that insurance, but also setting the guidelines on which drugs get covered.  It allowed each pharmaceutical company to jack up the prices of select drugs, thus guaranteeing windfall profits for those portions of their overall portfolio.

The Big Lie of Obamacare was that it would bring down costs.  But in reality, it increased them.  By design.

For the consumer, the best thing the government could possibly do here is to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE HEALTH CARE MARKET!

Of course I was kidding.

Congress cares about getting big bucks from the phram-companies, not about protecting their constituents, and that is true regardless of (D) or (R).  Damn few of those people, who are all set on a fat government pension and benefits for live, actually care.