Kentucky bill would cap cost of insulin at $100 per month
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Kentucky bill would cap cost of insulin at $100 per month
Ten-year-old Bryce George knows how lucky he is, he said Friday night.
Although he’s had type 1 diabetes since he was a toddler, his family can afford to take care of him — both his parents have insurance, allowing them to purchase the insulin he needs to balance his blood sugar for only about $100 each month.
If they didn’t, they would be even more at the mercy of a pharmaceutical pricing system that’s raised the price of the life-saving drug by more than 300% in the last 20 years.
