Eli Lilly’s move to cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin to $35 is expected to force other drugmakers to follow suit. NBC’s Berkeley Lovelace, Jr. reports.
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#EliLilly #Insulin #Drugmakers
This is called “Corporate Patriotism”.. thank you.. follow through.
More like Biden’s efforts
Trump lowers insulin cost for seniors, Sleepy joe rescinds it, then he lowers cost for insulin and says look at me! 🤣
“Trump lowers insulin cost for seniors, Sleepy joe rescinds it, then he lowers EVERYBODIES cost for insulin and says look at me!” 🤪
@graphosxp Yeah, it’s pretty much the same plan as Trumps. The inflation reduction act did not apply to EVERYONE. 🙄
Stop lying you stupid fool!
@graphosxpStop lying cretin
that which is *capped* by the corporation can be *uncapped* by the corporation! Price reduction needs to be set by Congress to stick!
Yes, we know. But someone, “corporations r people” had to step up to do the right thing.
Joe Biden is the best! He looks after old people.
It was at 35 from Trump. Biden undid it then put it back again. Whatever.
$98 dollars wtf lol
Corporate welfare pimping the country and it’s citizens. Amerikkkan. SMH
Those prices were from 2018!! What GREED!!! Not sure the %of Americans with diabetes 🤔 but probably pretty high, with the amount of obesity, not being the only factor, but!!! Time to start making healthy food costs more affordable ,than fast food
America doesn’t care about its citizens. The main goal in the states is to keep its citizens filled with lies, separated by racism, fat from rubbish for food and sick with poison from medications and harmful products, sadly the people are too braindead to realise this. Carry on..
Can this be codified so they DON’T hike it up again?
Why the anger at Eli lily. They actually stepped up.
Guess after their stock plummeted when a fake verified twitter account said “insulin is now free” damaged them so much since then they had no choice but to lower it. At least the public will be happy if not their fat stock holders.
So they were pressured into doing the right thing. What do they want? A parade? How about we just regulate these greedy companies into the dust?
Probably because people will start getting their insulin form Mark Cuban’s company at a much cheaper price… imagine the greed; $98 is crazy
It was costing families Way More than $98. This $35/month cap is a good thing.
And they are still gonna make Millions off it
Billions or Trillions
NBC’s legacy will forever now only be known for being a regurgitating bought and paid for mouth piece for a tyrannical fascist regime. LMFAO How the mighty giants fall. BOW DOWN.
Just like the US Government came out said they made fusion yet everyone still pays for electric huh?
Twitter vigilantes start making those profiles for other companies to do the same. Guess Eli Lily knows if their patients are dead so is their profit.
No. Fluffin. Way!
Still more than twice the amount of the next highest country. We’re still suckers.
Cmon. $35/month. Uninsuranced Americans were dying cuz they couldn’t afford their insulin. This is a Good Thing.
They didn’t have a f’ing choice! No thumbs up for any Pharma slime company!!
NBC’s legacy will forever now only be known for being a regurgitating bought and paid for mouth piece for a tyrannical fascist regime. LMFAO How the mighty giants fall. BOW DOWN
How is THIS fascist?
That’s great!
Eli lily doesn’t deserve any thanks for this news
Elon Musk on the other hand…
I don’t think any one is thanking Eli Lilly, it was Biden who pressured them. However, how does Elon Musk play into this?
@Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis when he took over twitter and introduced the Twitter Blue subscription to make your account “verified,” someone make a fake Eli Lily account and paid for the verification to tweet out that insulin would be free. Eli Lily then had to put out a statement that insulin would not be free and it increased their negative publicity. Elon doesn’t deserve any actual praise, it’s just a domino effect due to his greed.
Thanks for the Trump regulation …
Now do it to the internet. In Europe people don’t pay constantly changing absurd prices for an essential service.
Thank you President Trump… Your hard work & business acumen negotiating with drug companies is finally paying off! ❤️🙏
Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump didnt do anything!!! Stop giving that conman credit for something he had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH!!!! This is all President Biden and Democrats doing. Dont forget all but 12 Republicans voted against capping insulin at $35 for seniors just last year. ALL BUT 12!!!! It was a stand alone bill!! And now that President Biden has gotten it down to $35 for all Americans you want to credit trump??? Get a life!
Congress passed the Inflation reduction act which the G.O.P. opposed without the Democrats pushing it through we’d still be paying full price!! I wonder what the G.O.P. congress will do for Americans maybe raise insulin prices?
Now that we’re being forced to….I don’t believe for one second they are doing it because they want to.
Forced to? By whom?
Trump had it capped at 35 then Biden changes it then he capps it and takes credit.
That is actually a pretty misleading claim. In fact president alone don’t have the power to lower insulin price. So basically biden repeal a Trump-era regulation that sought to lower the cost of insulin at federally funded health centers and in case you wonder the regulation was never implemented and experts say its impact was expected to be limited. All of this is back up by AP (Misleading claims cite Biden for insulin price increases). Also btw if you want to lower insulin price it needed to be done by congress and thank to republicans filibustering everything to this very day insulin is never capped on 35. The only thing congress managed to pass regarding insulin is to capped it at $35 for people with Medicare who have diabetes. So this news regarding Eli Lilly capped it at $35 for everyone is not because of any law pass by Congress it just that Eli Lilly chose to Capped it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump NEVER did that! He talked about it and promised to do it but never followed through. President Biden and Democrats passed a STAND ALONE BILL to cap insulin for seniors at $35 and all but 12 Republicans voted NO! ALL BUT 12!!!! Presdient Biden now got the $35 cap for ALL Americans. Stop trying to give trump credit for something he had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with!!
Where are the replies? Did you delete them?
Eli Lily caps insulin for all at $35/month and Walgreens stops selling safe and effective abortion pill nationwide – pandering to politics and endangering women. It’s been quite a week.