Access to insulin can be a matter of life or death for those with diabetes, a disease that more than 37 million Americans live with. But the drug’s soaring price can alarmingly put it out of reach of those who need it. “The price of insulin has risen inexplicably over the past 20 years ...
MORGANTOWN – The Legislature was set to go into a special session on Monday to take up 17 bills; but Senate and House Democrats held separate press conferences in the morning before the gavels came down to bring attention to what's wasn't on the agenda. Namely the insulin copay cap bill ...
by Howard Dean U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock just introduced a bill that would cap Americans’ out-of-pocket spending on insulin at $35 a month. The legislation would be a godsend to patients battling diabetes. Many of them currently face hundreds of dollars in monthly out-of-pocket costs ...
Like the magic that allowed Cinderella to go the ball, the 2022 regular legislative session ended at midnight (technically Sunday) and took with it a whole host of bills. Most of the bills we covered here in our The Good, the Bad and the Stupid editorials now lie in the legislative graveyard. ...
The ‘last bills standing’ edition There are two days left in the 2022 regular legislative session. Anything that doesn’t pass the Legislature tomorrow is effectively dead, assuming it isn’t resurrected in a special session. In our The Good, the Bad and the Stupid round-ups, we’ve ...
The Legislature’s regular session ends Saturday, and there are two bills we’d like to see keep going and one that desperately needs to die. If HB 4252 sounds familiar, it’s because we keep talking about it. This bill makes three important changes to state code regarding insulin ...