The Cost of Insulin

<p><em>Health Affairs</em>' Jessica Bylander and Chris Fleming dive into the complex world of insulin pricing and recent efforts to control its costs for the millions of Americans with diabetes. </p><p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.01031?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=ahead+of+print">Read the Ahead of Print article on Medicare Advantage benchmarks by Michael Chernew and colleagues</a>.</p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><ul> <li> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/sanofi-insulin-price-cap-rcna75346">Sanofi announces insulin price cap after actions by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk</a> (<em>NBC News</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-prices-diabetes-congress-a2f9986b7bf3500b81d1ec80a01e5abb">Why is insulin so expensive and difficult to cap?</a> (<em>AP News</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://khn.org/news/article/california-generic-insulin-contract-civica-rx-newsom/">California Picks Generic Drug Company Civica to Produce Low-Cost Insulin</a> (<em>Kaiser Health News</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/insulin-preventive-care-why-not-eliminate-patient-cost-sharing?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=forefront">Insulin as Preventive Care: Why Not Eliminate Patient Cost Sharing?</a> (<em>Health Affairs Forefront</em>)</li> </ul><p>C<em>urrently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. </em><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/subscribe/individual?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=individual+subscriptions"><em>With your support,</em></a> <em>we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront</em> <em>and podcasts free for everyone.</em></p>