Drugmaker Eli Lilly caps the cost of insulin at $35 a month, bringing relief for millions

This is the result of strong anti trust enforcement finally. I keep preaching to the choir the solution to America is strong anti trust enforcement to Crack down on corporate greed

 

I'm diabetic. I have type 1, I produce no insulin. There are 2 types of insulin, one that functions over a period of time, one that acts quickly to bring down blood sugar immediately.

Walmart sells both types for $25. I don't know why they don't advertise this more. They've been selling it at this price for about eight years. Both are about a month's supply. Some people might run through the fast acting insulin more quickly but not that much more quickly.

Another poster, a diabetic said some people might not like the faster acting insulin but I would say it would just be a matter of adjusting.

I'm not making any qualitative judgements other than I don't understand why people don't know about Walmart prices.

My mother a retired RN but just an informed person told me about it. I don't go to the doctor as much as I should but they seem not to know. Insulin is just insulin, it's a replacement of something your body produces. All the synthetic insulins are pretty much all the same

 

There are more than two types. There is the long acting one that you mentioned and the short acting insulin that you mentioned.

There is a also the Humalog or Novalog that is also quick acting but different than the short term.

There might be other types as well.

I'm also type 1 diabetic, but my treatment path might be different than yours.

 

From CDC



https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type-1-types-of-insulin.html

The. The different types of insulin. The differences are just in the times they kick in. The doctor can adjust to you lifestyle but it's just about eating habits.

 

To understand why this happened read this thread. If you listen to libertarians @Space Ghost regulatory regulations are bad when in reality its the polar opposite. Allowing monopolies and corporations to dictate our lives isn't "capitalism" by any means.

Bullying corporations works every time.

 

WTF are you talking about? I support FAIR and meaningful regulation and encourage it. Safety and building codes are paramount. We need to dismantle the whole medicine cartels, starting with insurance companies.

Beating up a company because you don't like their political beliefs is very unfair.

 

You thought the DOT bullying airlines into booking children for free was "unfair" cmon ! Libertarians like yourself and anti monopolist like myself have alot in common if you dig into it.

Corporate America is screwing us

 

their political beliefs that their FRREDOM !! to charge whatever they like regardless of how many deaths it causes ?!

 

Well you would think, but their simplistic near religious belief is that markets are always self regulating. and After all, the diabetics are free not to choose to buy insuline. If too poor that was due to their choices also. They only got to simple supply and demand Econ, monopolies were not covered.

 

Which is all different than rapid acting insulin.

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/diab...d-acting, which starts to,last up to 18 hours.

 

This is from the CDC and lists several different types of insulin. More than the two you are talking about.

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type-1-types-of-insulin.html

 

I know that but the only difference is time. That's an easy adjustment for someone to make if they had to.

They are all fast acting, just how fast

Edit: I don't mean to continue that past conversation but you were responding to me like I'm unsympathetic to people's different reactions to different fast acting insulins when it's a simple adjustment if you have to. One acts in fifteen minutes, one in 30 minutes. A fifteen minute adjustment.

 

Except, that isn't the only difference. There are different peak times. Depending on people's work schedules, lifestyles, family requirements, etc. It can make a huge difference in getting blood sugar under control.

I know because I've lowered my A1C by more than 1.5. I do see my physician with the regularity that I should as well as my endocrinologist.

I'm not a physician and neither are you. But I do live in the United States and deal with controlling my type 1 diabetes.

 

The peak time is the same thing I'm referring to. All it changes is the time you take it. If your blood sugar is 300 or 250 or whatever, you adjust the amount. Depending on the time it peaks, you take it at the same time every meal. Not a hard adjustment

 

Do you have insurance or do you pay out-of-pocket?

 

I have insurance but at $25 I pay out of pocket. I just don't see the doctor but your insulin intake really doesn't change. It's really based on weight.

 

So it's OTC?

Why would someone want prescription insulin if they can get it OTC?