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I think it was when I learnt that in America even a child's insulin has to be paid for or the child goes without that I really grasped how appalling the situation really is.

That's sad man. May not be the best option for everyone out there, but several countries (like here in Brazil for example) will give you insulin no matter where you from or what your status. Go to the hospital, make sure they understand what you're saying and that's it, free insulin. We may not be rich, but we try to help everyone

This is what happens when the people responsible for making policies are privileged enough to be completely unaffected by the problems they are supposed to be solving. Unconscionable that this happened, and continues to happen.

It's very sad because other countries have excellent health coverage for their citizens. In America everything seems based upon money or profit, someone please correct me if this is not the case, thank you. We should take a look at what Canada is doing, just a thought!

That's our government for you. They have a system of legalized bribery and get top shelf health insurance with the job. They have no incentive to change anything because they got theirs.

Insulin for my dad cost's him 37$ a year in Australia. If I make a dessert or something with lots of sugar (bad for diabetics) he shrugs and says he'll just take more insulin. Really shows you just how f****d up America is.

The rest of the developed world can't understand how the US can do this to it's people - esp while still claiming to be the best country in the world.....

America is rich on nothing but debt

this hurts to read

Snopes says this is true (although his name was Alex Smith). This angers me so f**king much!!!!!!!!!! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alex-smith-died-couldnt-afford-insulin/

And Elon Musk has $400 billion. And Republicans refuse to raise his taxes. In fact they give him, and his irk, tax relief. Does anyone see what's wrong with this?

As the wife of a diabetic, it hurts my heart to read something like this. My husband pays 30 euros for his insulin every 3 months.

Another fishy story. You can go work for target, home depot , Starbucks you name it and get health insurance with pharmacy coverage.

We are NOT ran my government, we are strictly ran for the 1% along with corporations. Nobody gives a flying f**k about the rest of us in this disgraceful pathetic country.

We have his blood on our hands.

There are so many programs to provide cheap or free insulin to people that need it. My brother has type 1 diabetes and hasn't had insurance in years. He worked for non-profits at a very low wage and so he got insulin from the companies for a very low monthly cost or free with proof of income. He literally had a dozen hacks and sources for the insulin.

How many others?

This is so incredibly sad.

The creaters of insulin gave up the royalties so everyone could have access to this life saving med.

Considering that the Canadian doctor (Banting) who developed insulin refused to patent it because it should be free to everyone who needed it ..... well - I'm sure the good doctor is turning in his grave.

I can't afford my diabetic medication beyond the generic oral tabs. $800 per month is out of my safety zone.

He died in 2017. The price of insulin, the only product that keeps diabetics alive, has jumped 585 percent over a period of 14 years prior. That represented an increase for one-month’s supply from $170 to $1,400, prices that are not justified given the fact that makers didn’t invest in research and development for the product and don’t advertise. Part of the problem is that only three manufacturers make most of the insulin in the U.S. and all have been able to prevent the substance from being available to generic manufacturers by slightly changing its formula over the years, a wrinkle in U.S. patent law that isn’t the case in Europe, where diabetics do have access to the lower-cost generic versions. Some legislators in state Congresses had introduced bills to help diabetics to get their insulin at an affordable rate. However, as soon as President Trump got behind that, they dumped those patients on the ground and left them there, just to not support anything Trump thought was good.

you know what is even more effed up? Banting and Best (in Toronto)- charged NOTHING for the copyright on insulin as they felt it was life-saving and should be available to everyone

Why do you USAians put up with this!!!!!

This is so far beyond travesty. I just can't. Life saving drugs should be affordable, regardless of anything else.

America needs a revolution...

The worlds largest banana republic USA!! USA!!

Again, welcome to the USA !

Let's talk about that $7,500 out-of-pocket deductible, something absolutely unheard of until Obamacare, because no person in their right mind would ever agree to that. He was forced by the government to pay $6,000 in health insurance, and still had zero access to healthcare. However, due to reforms from BEFORE Biden took office, you can now get a month's vial of insulin from Walmart, for instance, for $73.

I used to get health insurance for $400 per month. Then the federal government said they were going to "help". They instituted Obamacare. My insurance premiums went to $700 per month and my deductibles and co-pays sky-rocketed. Thanks, Mr Obama. Obama promised that he was going to cut health insurance premiums by an average of $2,500 per year. Instead mine went up by $3,600 per year. He swore, "If you like your present health insurance, you can keep your present health insurance. Period." Then he made the policies that I and many other Americans had illegal and we were forced to get new, more expensive policies. Are there problems with American health care? Absolutely. Did government efforts to fix it make it better? No, just the opposite. Do greedy insurance and pharmaceutical companies put profit over human life? Yes. But government officials put ideology and political power over human life.

And yet we give out narcon shots like they were candy. Talk about f'd up!

Did a little checking and I am left very disturbed. How the heck can insulin, a medication that costs peanuts to make, be 7 times more expesive in the US as in the next most expensive country (Japan). But in Japan they have universal healthcare so it essentially is free there. This is a life or death medicine. (Shakes my head).

A life saving medicine should be free, along with epi-pens. Yes, I'm a dreamer.