'Much More Needs to Be Done,' Says Sanders as Novo Nordisk Caves on Insulin Price

Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Crediting advocacy groups with pressuring two out of the three pharmaceutical companies that supply insulin to patients with diabetes in the United States to drastically lower their prices, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called on the last of the trio, Sanofi , to do the same while arguing price caps should be mandatory—not a choice.

Sanders noted that 'grassroots pressure' forced Eli Lilly and Novo this month to announce major price cuts, but said that as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee he 'will soon hold a hearing on the need to guarantee insulin at an affordable price to everyone who needs it,' suggesting that voluntary price cuts by companies are not sufficient.

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