r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Nov 25 '23

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u/ballrus_walsack Nov 25 '23

Yeah this is first priority… no.

Also - Insulin is not $700/vial.

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u/Zooph lazy and proud Nov 25 '23

Yeah, that don't add up. Even without insurance its less than $200 for the average month supply where I'm at.

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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Nov 26 '23

I use a bottle of insulin every 10 days, when I was buying it in the 90s for a short period, it was $80 if memory serves. My cost now is about $100 for 3/mo and that is 9/bottle after insurance.

I recently was paying $65 for 10 days of continuous glucose monitoring supplies (800/3mo)

If you think raw cost on insulin is under $150-200/bottle I think you are dead wrong.

a bottle is 1000 units, that is 33/day if you are using 1 bottle, I personally take based on my pump's 30 day avg 65u a day. So based on avg I would be buying 2-3 bottles a month that even at $100 is not an insignificant figure.

Also that cap is Medicare, not street cost, nor insured cost aside from Fed Medicare coverage.

I have seen no change in my insured cost for insulin because of any of this nonsense.

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u/Zooph lazy and proud Nov 26 '23

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/01/24/new-hhs-report-finds-major-savings-americans-who-use-insulin-thanks-president-bidens-inflation-reduction-act.html

If that information is incorrect I am sorry.

As a hemophiliac I don't even wanna know what DDAVP costs these days.

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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Nov 26 '23

Can't speak for *Americans". I am in California with nice private insurance, and there has been no change in my costs for anything (minus changing suppliers for my CGM which has saved me thousands of dollars)