We Need Get Insulin Added to the National " Preventive Medication Coverage " List

For 2018 World Diabetes Day (which is on November 14 of each year, the date of discoverer Frederick Banting ' s birth), I avoided much " celebration " or even acknowledgement. Its not that I don ' t care -- indeed, I can remember my involvement of working to get Congressional recognition of the day and helping to persuade the then-UN representative with written letters to that the United States ' citizens actually supported the day ' s (and month ' s) creation way back in the early 1990 ' s. Prior to that, diabetes wasn ' t even acknowledged outside of the medical profession.That said, in many ways, I hate these honorary " days " or " months " because they really marginalize all of the other days and months that we must go on without so much as an acknowledgement, and frankly, there are some huge problems with diabetes treatment in the United States, perhaps more so than elsewhere in the world.One of the most disgusting developments in recent years has been the runaway prices for insulin, which if I ' m being frank, are simply greed-driven price hikes for decades-old drugs whose development costs were recuperated years ago. Years ago, I addressed biosimilars and the bogus reasons they hadn ' t emerged (see my coverage athttp://blog.sstrumello.com/2007/01/business-of-diabetes-real-story-behind.html) but today, the distribution and payment hierarchy have added vastly to the prices people with diabetes pay for insulin.Without getting too wonky, the main issue that gets insuffici...
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