The lifespan of a person with insulin-dependent diabetes who is not receiving insulin can be measured in days.
Optics on this one are bad....
Yeah right, she shouldn’t have to pay anything for her child when welfare from the taxpayers can pay right?
We’re becoming a nation of stupid Lemmings.
What pump is this child on ? My grandaughter has an insulin pump and her infusion sets are $160 a month and insulin reservoirs are $50 a month if you buy them with no insurance. Other then that the only things required is a glucose tester and test strips and lancets, syringes for manual shots, and the insulin itself. Insulin being the medication and the most expensive item I cannot see any insurance/especially medicaid not covering insulin, my grandaughters insulin if bought retail would be about $700.00 a month. But $2500 a month just for the supplies listed above is way off the chart.
It says in the article that the woman’s husband’s diabetes meds are covered by his insurance. So, why doesn’t the insurance cover the daughter?
Also, I wonder if the woman contacted any diabetes associations for help? Many companies offer low-cost medications for people who cannot afford the full price.
(Of course, those low-cost meds end up costing the rest of us more...)
This is a special situation. There should be a private charity that can help with this. As was said , insulin dependent diabetes is dangerous. Especially for a kid, so there has to be a way. This is a lousy situation for all sides
This “bootstraps” nonsense is obsolete. Nomatter the cause, this economy is clearly not working for many people willing to work hard and get educated.
I see people every day who are engineers and earn the top 5% of salaries in the country. Yet they have less purchasing power (while working more hours) than a factory worker several decades ago.
When I first started in the business, engineers could afford a house and children well before they turned 30. Today they live with parents or studio apartments at best.
Clearly something is very wrong
Nichols responded to Guice by detailing how much each portion of her daughter's medication costs, which amounts to about $2,500 a month,
Nichols' husband also has Type 1 diabetes, but he has not had any problems receiving medication, which is covered by his insurance through his employer, Nichols said.
$2,500 a month is a large chunk of change for most people, however, how come his daughter is not covered under his plan from work?
It looks like these medication prices are spiking. In the case of insulin there are two partial explanations given.
A) Shenanigans on the part of prescription plans which is driving up the wholesale price.
B) There’s bio-identical insulin which is being developed which will tank the prices, so manufacturers are getting what they can now before that happens.
There are a number of assistance programs offered through manufacturers. Perhaps the representative could have done a Google search and found these things out? Instead of asking his constituent about whether or not Medicaid covered it??
The problem is the state’s medicaid program/provider is jerking enrollees around on an “explicitly stated covered benefit”.
So it’s either incompetence or intentional malfeasance/breech of contract. Both are bad but the latter is more reprehensible.
Whether it’s a state employee or a state contractor not doing their job, it’s a state legislator’s job to investigate wth is going on, because the state is being ripped off.
This is a separate issue from whether the state should be providing the benefit. The fact is they are, they are paying some insurance company for the coverage and no doubt have state employees responsible for overseeing the program and NO ONE is doing their job or this wouldn’t be happening.
This legislator just stepped in a big pile of stupid.
humulin, synthetic human insulin,
is off patent and costs pennies to make.
if Republicans won’t act to fix medical
price gouging,
the Democrats will.
people will vote to save their own lives.
the medical ‘market’ was never free.
Insulin bottles at Walmart $23. Needles $3 a pack.
What it tells me is that this so called representative is tone deaf.
Mississippi is one of the lowest states in terms of salaries. It has a huge poverty rate.
Beyond that it shows complete stupidity about type 1 diabetes
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