A listener wrote to us at the beginning of the year with a query, “I was just reading the news about the price of insulin going down to $35! Is that for everyone?”
It turns out, there is a lot of good news about the so-called “poster child” for the high cost of prescription drugs. But to say it costs $35 now is an oversimplification – and diabetes activists don’t think this fight is over.
Senior producer and self-proclaimed “insulin correspondent” Emily Pisacreta took a hard look at the recent developments.
Plus, what does the explosion of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have to do with the price of insulin? We break it down.
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Badass volunteers help Jared level up, in the fight to crush medical debt
A whole book about fighting effed-up medical bills? Yes, please.
Want to write a killer letter to insurance? Meet Jeannine.
Mini-episode: One guy skirts a medical-bill trap, and shares the secret.
Why picking the right insurance is so hard (bonus/encore)
Programming note: We're working on some cool new stuff.
Who's been trying to cash in on COVID vaccinations? (And how did racism help them out?)
Revisiting insulin, as relevant (and expensive) as ever
A legal strategy for erasing billions in medical debt— that works—from a 60-second video.
A former "bad guy" lawyer shows us how the dark machinery works. And our rights.
Mini-episode: Two small doses of good news
A 21st-century Christmas Carol: How one Scrooge became a health-care whistleblower
From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes
Fight! My family tries to pick health insurance for next year. COVID makes it harder.
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How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test: with Sarah Kliff of the New York Times
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