Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new state contract that officials say will cut insulin costs by 90%.
Because the state can manufacture and distribute the insulin itself, patients will be able to buy the medicine for the same price it costs to make it, according to the announcement.A 10-milliliter vial will be made available for no more than $30 .No new prescription will be needed. Californians will be able to ask for the CalRx generic at their local pharmacy or via mail order pharmacies.
In January, state officials announced they will sue the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of scheming to illegally increase the price of the drug and demanding they return millions of dollars to some diabetics who state officials say were overcharged for the medicine they must have to survive.
“It is not a partisan issue,” Bonta said in January, adding said state attorneys general from both major political parties “all say the same thing: That the status quo is unacceptable and problematic and awful.” Nationally, Americans have railed against the cost of health care, primarily the cost of their medicine — with angst rising further amid waves of biting inflation in recent months.
Ahead of that speech — which took place in front of a crowd of doctors and nurses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas — White House officials made the case that the issue is central to Americans’ lives and called on a bipartisan approach to lower prescription costs.
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