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California has tried to cut the cost of insulin for years. Why it might finally succeed

Original post made on May 20, 2023

To fight the skyrocketing cost of insulin, California is using multiple tactics, including making its own generic versions.

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Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on May 20, 2023 at 11:32 am
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“It’s less about a particular deliverable and more about creating a relationship,” said Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, *

Big Pharma to our Congresswoman Eshoo, > $70,000 in her 'safe' 2020 reelection. (by August)
[Senator Mitch McConnell got >$197,000 by Aug of that same year]

* StatNews.com 2020 "Prescription-Politics"
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Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on May 20, 2023 at 2:55 pm
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Congresswoman Eshoo's recent newsletter Report links you to the middlemen ( ? "her middlemen" :)

2 layers down, the first Politico article on 'her work' in

"A message from Pharmaceutical Care Management Association: ..."
Under "Prescription Pulse" heading [ yeah Anna G., I still got a pulse ]

/ now like most citizens, I think "Congress is broken, but My Congress person is real OK". /
the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health - my Congresswoman's
[ then again - am I Sure I have a Pulse that is strong enough to get to my Brain? :]

-live Well and Prosper-

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