Changes in the Price of Insulin, In Graphics! (and Vote ' Yes ' on 61 in California)

In September 2016, the media was flooded with stories about the rediculously expensive price of EpiPens, which is basically epinephrine used to treat severe allergies (such as when some people get stung by bees or encounter peanuts), as the pens cost more than $600 for a package of two. The news was that the price of EpiPens, which are a generic drug with an innovative delivery device that enables even people unfamiliar with them to give injections in order to rapidly address allergic reactions, had increased by 600% over the past decade. Suddenly, everyone was remakably empathetic to the persons who need to pay more than $300 for an EpiPen. But as I already noted in my preceding post (seehttps://goo.gl/cWvNRz for my post), that incident was remarkably familiar to people who have to buy insulin, glucagon and supplies needed to manage diabetes.I pointed to a Bloomberg article (seehttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-06/diabetes-drugs-compete-with-prices-that-rise-in-lockstep for that) which showed a sickeningly similar trend of dramatic price increases for insulin (especially) and other diabetes-care items. The Washington Postfinally addressed this issue with an article of their own (seehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/31/why-insulin-prices-have-kept-rising-for-95-years/ for the article), so did theWall Street Journal (seehttp://www.wsj.com/articles/insulin-prices-soar-while-drugmakers-share-stays-flat-1475876764 for the ar...
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