Reducing The Cost Of Insulin And Improving Healthcare For Our Nation’s Seniors

whitehouse.gov ^ | May 26, 2020 | White House

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LOWERING COST OF INSULIN FOR SENIORS: President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are lowering out-of-pocket insulin costs for Medicare’s seniors.

• • Under President Trump’s leadership, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is announcing that many Medicare Part D plans and Medicare Advantage plans have applied to offer lower out-of-pocket insulin costs to seniors for the 2021 plan year.
  • Across the Nation, participating enhanced Part D plans will provide many seniors with Medicare access to a broad set of insulins at a maximum $35 copay for a month’s supply of each type of insulin.
  • In 2018, Medicare Part D also started covering newer insulin delivery devices, including both mechanical and electronic insulin pumps that are not covered under Part B.
  • Lowering out-of-pocket insulin costs will provide the many Medicare beneficiaries who rely on one or more common forms of insulin with plan options that will deliver critical relief.

  IMPROVING CARE AND COST FOR SENIORS: President Trump is working to improve the accessibility, quality, and affordability of healthcare and prescription drugs for our Nation’s seniors.

  • President Trump is committed to ensuring that older Americans receive the best quality healthcare at an affordable price.
  • Just last year, the President signed an Executive Order to empower seniors with more choice and access in healthcare and improve the fiscal sustainability of Medicare.
    • This order will eliminate unnecessary barriers and combat fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare, improving the program and maximizing freedom for patients and providers.
  • Average basic premiums for Medicare Part D prescription drug plans are the lowest in 7 years and have fallen by 13.5 percent since 2017, saving beneficiaries $1.9 billion in premium costs.
    • Medicare Advantage premiums have also fallen 28 percent since 2017 to a 13-year low.
  • President Trump is committed to lowering the prices of prescription drugs for all Americans and has repeatedly called on Congress to act.

  PROTECTING SENIORS DURING A PANDEMIC: President Trump is ensuring that our Nation’s seniors remain safe and have access to healthcare resources during the coronavirus pandemic.

  • President Trump has released his “Opening Up America Again” guidelines, which include instructions for States to take additional measures to protect the safety of senior citizens.
  • The Trump Administration has made it easier for America’s seniors to be tested for coronavirus while ensuring they are not burdened by the costs of these services.
  • Early in the outbreak, President Trump acted to dramatically expand Medicare telehealth coverage, ensuring seniors could access healthcare services from the safety of their own home.
  • The President has taken steps to improve the safety of our Nation’s nursing homes, including creating the Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.
  • The Administration announced nearly $1 billion to support the needs of older Americans during the crisis, including home-delivered meals, in-home care services, and more.
  • Federal agencies are studying the effects of coronavirus on vulnerable populations and are working to improve the responsiveness of our healthcare system.

  

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[edie1960]

PDJT held an awesome presser in the Rose Garden after making this announcement.

Really delved deeply into the voting fraud, ballot harvesting and RNC convention site issues.

Could not find a dedicated thread of this event on FR.

[cloudmountain]

It's a sad commentary on America's eating/exercise habits.
Type I diabetes is the BAD ONE. It's genetic.

Type II is not genetic and is brought on from Americans' horrible food choices and exercise style that consists MAINLY of walking to and from the kitchen and bathroom.

Type II can be held at bay with good food choices and exercise. Oh well, they are in enough pain and/or discomfort without hearing me spout off.

My mantra: EAT LESS; EAT BETTER; MOVE MORE.
Simple to do but so very hardto do.

[Dacula]

Is Joe Manchin’s daughter in line to make more money? She jacked up the price of Epi-Pens.

[BobL]

“My mantra: EAT LESS; EAT BETTER; MOVE MORE.”

True, the cat’s out of the bag now as to how to control Type 2 diabetes without insulin, and often without any meds - it just takes ignoring 50 years of ‘expert’ advice.

“Simple to do but so very hard to do.”

Particularly when the ‘experts’ consider you borderline insane for questioning their ‘wisdom’.

[TheRightGuy]

that lying a-hole from lily who spoke about being in the fight to lower insulin costs should be taken out and shot. i take two types of insulin manufactured by lily and the price has more than doubled since i started with them in 2012.

[House Atreides]

“PDJT held an awesome presser in the Rose Garden after making this announcement....”
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It was awesome. While it was ongoing I did a quick channel check and surprise, surprise, surprise, CNN and MSNBC were not coveting it.

[Honest Nigerian]

Insulin? I don’t think that Manchin-connected company does anything with insulin? Probably not even with diabetes meds.
Anybody else know?

[Dacula]

Try this one...

http://newsroom.mylan.com/2020-03-10-Mylan-Wins-District-Court-Decision-Against-Sanofis-Lantus-R-SoloSTAR-R-Patent

HERTFORDSHIRE, England and PITTSBURGH, March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ: MYL) today announced that the U.S. District Court of New Jersey found the device patent claims (U.S. Patent No. 9,526,844) asserted by Sanofi against Mylan’s insulin glargine product not infringed and invalid for lack of written description.

[Dacula]

Does Mylan make insulin?

Mylan announced Thursday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Appeal Board had ruled in its favor, allowing the Canonsburg-based pharmaceutical company to continue making a generic insulin glargine vial. Dec 13, 2018

Mylan wins lawsuit over Sanofi insulin formulation patents ...

[cloudmountain]

True, the cat’s out of the bag now as to how to control Type 2 diabetes without insulin, and often without any meds - it just takes ignoring 50 years of ‘expert’ advice.

I had a friend with type II diabetes. She takes her shots and tries hard (often successfully) to control her eating.
But she HATES, LOATHES and DETESTS exercise.
SO, trying to be a good friend to her I e-mailed her that I'd walk with her ANY time, ANYwhere for how ever long or short a time.

Well, that enraged her. She wrote that she already KNEW what to do and didn't need ME to tell her. I stopped being her friend, I guess. Aren't friends supposed to help and be supportive?
I sent her a Christmas card...but no good.
I guess she wasn't the friend I THOUGHT she was.

When we had lunch once I watched her give herself an injection in her stomach. Yuck! The day will come when she'll die from diabetes.

I had it on both sides of my family. One of my father's sisters died from it and my mother's brother died from it.

PREVENTABLE and CURABLE.

[BobL]

Sad story - but she had her meds, so she figured she was JUST FINE. Oh well...

[cloudmountain]

Sad story - but she had her meds, so she figured she was JUST FINE. Oh well...

It IS sad. It shows SUCH a lack of self-control.
She will get ONLY worse and worse.

I had an uncle and first cousin (father-son) with diabetes and they both died from the effects of it. My uncle had some TOES cut off before he passed away.
He remarked that it REALLY threw off his golf game.

[Freee-dame]

Controlling or even eliminating type two diabetes through diet and exercise is simple but it is not easy. If it were easy no one would have type two diabetes. It is too bad that the diabetes pharmaceutical companies, magazines, special interest groups, etc. do not do more to stress the importance of diet and exercise. Instead they tell people which drugs might help them. I don’t know how many type two diabetics take insulin but I don’t think it’s most of them.

People with type one diabetes have the potential for the same types of devastating long term side effects of the disease as with Type 2, but it has a completely different cause. A type one diabetic does not make insulin and will die without it.

[cloudmountain]

The comparison I always use is:

Driving is VERY complicated, especially in a big city. But it is VERY easy to do. Even 16-year-olds are allowed to get a driver's license.

Controlling weight/diabetes is VERY simple. But it is VERY difficult to do.

[edie1960]

Thanks for your acknowledgement,

Yes, indeed, it’s a shame how the likes of CNN and MSNBC arbitrarily blackout our magnificent POTUS!!

I caught today’s event on C-SPAN—and I’m certain OANN must have had it.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh I read the article and thought maybe medicare should just pay for them to be on Jenny Craig for 90 days. Most type 11 diabetes goes away if you lose weight and give up soda pop. My BIL just refuses to lose weight no matter what goes wrong. Hes morbidly overweight but just wants to take insulin rather than give up eating 24/7.

[Lizavetta]

The problem is that there’s a monopoly of three insulin manufacturers. Why doesn’t Trump write an executive order to eliminate that?