Analysis: Senate Democrats are readying another push to curb the cost of insulin — a politically popular provision the party excluded from a deal on an economic package released earlier this week.
on legislation that aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change and reduce the federal deficit. included drug-pricing provisions, such as allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. But it didn’t contain any measures specifically related to insulin, which is used by diabetics to manage their blood sugar levels, to the ire of some drug pricing advocates.
President Biden on July 28 explained how the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will be beneficial to climate change and reducing the deficit. Last month, Shaheen and Collins unveiled a proposal to target the high cost of insulin after months of work toMeanwhile, the insulin provisions weren’t included in a new version of Democrats' go-at-it-alone drug pricing plan.
It had faced daunting political odds in a quest to obtain 10 Republican votes, as some lawmakers expressed unease about the policy“I think that [Collins is] persuasive, and she’s determined,” a Senate GOP aide told The Health 202 earlier this week, “but I think that there’s a lot of concern.” In a statement, Shaheen said that while she believes her bipartisan legislation is “the most effective mechanism” to address insulin’s cost, she believes “the Senate has an opportunity to take action next week to reduce costs — that is a critical window Congress cannot allow to close.”It’s not yet decided which insulin provisions Democrats will attempt to include in their party-line package, but their success may depend on arcane Senate rules.
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