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CT Medicare enrollees could see savings under insulin price cap

Avatar photo by Lisa Hagen January 24, 2023 @ 5:11 pmJanuary 24, 2023 @ 5:21 pm

More than 11,000 Medicare enrollees in CT would have seen an average $590 savings if there was a monthly insulin cap in 2020.

Posted inHealth

Insulin, telehealth bills headed for governor’s desk

Avatar photo by Jenna Carlesso July 28, 2020 @ 7:37 pmMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:36 am

The state Senate approved a pair of health bills that would cap insulin costs and extend telemedicine’s expansion through March.

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Lawmakers will debate two health care bills today. Here’s what they would do.

Avatar photo by Jenna Carlesso July 23, 2020 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:34 am

On the agenda for the special session are bills tackling the cost of diabetes drugs and boosting access to telemedicine.

Posted inHealth

Insulin bill would cap monthly supplies of drug at $50

Avatar photo by Jenna Carlesso February 13, 2020 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:21 am

The measure is more aggressive than similar efforts in Illinois and Colorado, which capped insulin costs at $100 per month.

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CT lawmakers bring guests to Trump’s SOTU to send a message

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat February 3, 2020 @ 2:48 pmMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:23 am

Guests at the State of the Union speech have one thing in common – they are involved in issues high on the Connecticut lawmakers’ political agendas.

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Blumenthal says Lilly’s Lispro is a ‘bait and switch’ insulin for diabetics

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat January 3, 2020 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:20 am

When Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren surveyed the nation’s pharmacies they found most of them failed to stock Lispro, a lower-cost insulin.  

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Best of 2019: Diabetics taking desperate measures as cost of insulin skyrockets

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat December 30, 2019 @ 5:01 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:24 am

A precipitous rise in the price of insulin is forcing many Americans to ration the drug or go without.

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CT lawmakers hail U.S. House approval of prescription drug bill

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat December 12, 2019 @ 5:30 pmMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:19 am

The most controversial section of the bill would direct the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to directly negotiate with drugmakers on the price of medications covered under Medicare.

Posted inHealth

Diabetics taking desperate measures as cost of insulin skyrockets

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat June 21, 2019 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:12 am

A precipitous rise in the price of insulin is forcing many Americans to ration the drug or go without.

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