MN Alex Smith Insulin Affordability Act allows qualified folks to obtain 1time 30day supply of insulin for $35 to prevent death, Alex died of diabetes

[Billiejeens]

Well that explains the lack of heart

Not at all.

 

[Marener]

No
I'm good, I'm a Republican.

If you’re good with you’re money, you understand why staying on parent’s insurance as long as you can makes sense.

 

[Marener]

Let me reword the question.

As a responsible country why are we letting 25-year-olds stay on mommy's policy?
We have ruined this country by never insisting that children grow up.

So you’re calling a dead man a loser because you don’t agree with a policy that he has nothing to do with.

The country is ruined when assholes like you stop caring about human life.

 

[Billiejeens]

So you’re calling a dead man a loser because you don’t agree with a policy that he has nothing to do with.

The country is ruined when assholes like you stop caring about human life.

I'm calling him a loser when he was alive.

 

[Marener]

I'm calling him a loser when he eas alive.

He took advantage of a policy to save him money. How does that make him a loser?

 

[strollingbones]

and you make this decision on this having insurance on his parents policy at 26? what a judge fucking mental fuck you are

Billiejeens

 

[Likkmee]

The USA: a country where Alex Smith was thrown off his mums health insurance when he turned 26 & despite working full time he couldn't afford his insulin. He died one month later. AFTER Obamacare was already law!

Insulin’s steep price leads to deadly rationing

The price of insulin in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2012 alone. That’s put the lifesaving hormone out of reach for some people with diabetes.

www.pbs.org

Wifeys is "free"...well Socialist kinda free. Health insurance is $110 a month, with scrips

 

[Billiejeens]

and you make this decision on this having insurance on his parents policy at 26? what a judge fucking mental fuck you are

Billiejeens

Thank You.

 

[strollingbones]

i do not see a type 1 getting insurance for that rate Likkmee it would depend on his current state of health...type 1's can have serious health problems very early...but lets not discuss why a country that is so great doesnt have free medical care?

remember a once of prevention is worth a pound of cure...look at the current birthrates in mississippi and stds in newborns..due to not having prenatal care

 

[Dekster]

$1300 a month probably wasn't for traditional insulin and $35 a month would be for traditional insulin only so I doubt this idea would have even saved his life. Most folks only need a couple/3 vials of insulin a month so that would have been like $75 at Walmart. He was likely on an insulin pump or some sort of synthetic longer lasting insulin at that price tag.

 

[Marener]

$1300 a month probably wasn't for traditional insulin and $35 a month would be for traditional insulin only so I doubt this idea would have even saved his life. Most folks only need a couple/3 vials of insulin a month so that would have been like $75 at Walmart. He was likely on an insulin pump or some sort of synthetic longer lasting insulin at that price tag.

Don’t forget the price of testing supplies too.

Eli Lilly is cutting the price of Humalog dramatically. Biden’s policies are working much better than people talk about.

 

[strollingbones]

The new shot Olympia costs about a grand a month

 

[Independentthinker]

The USA: a country where Alex Smith was thrown off his mums health insurance when he turned 26 & despite working full time he couldn't afford his insulin. He died one month later. AFTER Obamacare was already law!

Insulin’s steep price leads to deadly rationing

The price of insulin in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2012 alone. That’s put the lifesaving hormone out of reach for some people with diabetes.

www.pbs.org

Are you saying that these people won't die this month but will die next month instead?

 

[Dekster]

Don’t forget the price of testing supplies too.

Eli Lilly is cutting the price of Humalog dramatically. Biden’s policies are working much better than people talk about.

Well poor fellow would still have to have been taking orders at the restaurant with his pen to be going through that much a month. Yay for EL and diabetics and all that, but it really does sound to me like this guy tried to wing it because he would have rather spent the money elsewhere and got burned in the process. I mean if he couldn't afford $400 insurance I doubt he would have been able to afford cash price pens even when the price is cut.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

MN Alex Smith Insulin Affordability Act allows qualified folks to obtain 1time 30day supply of insulin for $35 to prevent death…

Seems like a rather hollow “solution” to the problem, done more for show than for any useful effect.

So, someone who is so seriously diabetic that he will die without insulin, gets a one-time thirty-day supply for cheap. How does that do anything other than prolong his death by thirty days? Once he's used his cheap thirty-day supply, he's right back where he would have been without it.

If this law had been in effect back then, it seems to me that Alec Smith would surely have lived a month longer, and then died just the same.