Failure to include a monthly $35 insulin cap in the climate and health care bill could especially affect Latinos, who are 70% more likely than their white non-Hispanic peers to be diagnosed with diabetes.
Seven Republicans voted
with Democrats to keep the insulin cap in the bill, but that was not enough to overcome the 60-vote threshold, Axios' Sophia Cai reports. The Republicans who voted against the cap argued the provision violated the rules of reconciliation after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that it is not primarily related to the federal budget.The insulin price cap would've “had a tremendous impact in the Latinx community,” said Yadira Sanchez, executive director for Poder Latinx, an organization that builds Latino political power in Arizona, Florida and Georgia.
"This isn’t a partisan issue, and it’s shameful that Republican senators are more focused on protecting Big Pharma’s profits than helping diabetics stay alive,” Castro said. to get vital news about Latinos and Latin America, delivered to your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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