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California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin (www.theguardian.com)

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Bill denial for the prescription drug price cap called ‘a major setback’ for diabetics in the state

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Newsom created CalRX which is a California state based insulin producer that sells 10/mL for $30 to people with or without insurance to anyone in the entire country.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1164572757/california-contract-cheap-insulin-calrx

The state-label insulins will cost no more than $30 per 10 milliliter vial, and no more than $55 for a box of five pre-filled pen cartridges — for both insured and uninsured patients. The medicines will be available nationwide, the governor's office said.

Pick your battles.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are different types of insulin that work differently. Not only are there short, medium, and long acting insulins, but quite a few people have to take multiple insulins. The CalRX insulin will be great, but it's not going to be the answer for everyone. The insulin cap law would've helped.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just an FYI. The CalRx insulin is being produced by Civica Rx. They will be producing three insulins for the program. Glargie, Lispro, and Aspart. These are generic biologics that are interchangeable with Lantus (long-acting), Humalog (fact-acting), and Novolog (instant). Additionally, for the products where this makes sense, products will be available in vial and autoinjector formats. The $30 price is that of the vials and $55 for a box of five autoinjectors.

So main take aways should be CalRx will be producing analogs and will be providing a wide band of types for different needs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Humalog (lispro) is approximately the same as Novolog (aspart). There are rapid actings, they are Fiasp and Lyumjev.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

People with type 1 pretty much always take a long acting like Lantus and a fast like Novolog, unless you have a pump, in which case it's only fast acting. But I'm sure they've thought of that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you, this seemed out of character for the guy and the context helped