Republican Senators Block $35 Price Cap On Insulin

The Washington Post reports:

Republican lawmakers on Sunday successfully stripped a $35 price cap on the cost of insulin for many patients from the ambitious legislative package Democrats are moving through Congress this weekend, invoking arcane Senate rules to jettison the measure.

The insulin cap is a long-running ambition of Democrats, who want it to apply to patients on Medicare and private insurance.

Republicans left the portion that applies to Medicare patients untouched but stripped the insulin cap for other patients. Bipartisan talks on a broader insulin pricing bill faltered earlier this year.

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Republicans singled out the insulin price cap—a vital, life-saving measure for which there is no rational objection—and blocked its inclusion in the bill, expressly to “deny Democrats a victory” at a cost of American lives. The ultimate expression of politics over all else.

— Mark Sumner🌻 (@Devilstower) August 7, 2022

During the Senate’s debate of the Inflation Reduction Act today, Democrats tried to cap the price of insulin at $35.

It needed 60 votes and got 57 because Republicans overwhelmingly opposed it.

Republicans again stopped affordable insulin for millions who need it to live. pic.twitter.com/QgD4N2Ak64

— Congresswoman Chellie Pingree 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@chelliepingree) August 7, 2022

weshlovrcm • 2 hours ago

A “Christian Nation” and a real “pro-life” person would not have voted against the cap.

Karl Dubhe IV • 2 hours ago

Forced birth, and rationed medical care based on your ability to pay.

Reprehensible.

William Karl Dubhe IV • 2 hours ago

Coming soon, pregnant women with gestational diabetes charged with attempted murder of their unborn child for not being able to afford insulin.

Darreth • 3 hours ago • edited

There will be little reason for Dem voters to vote for Dems if the message of who did this to them is never mentioned on any campaign trail. And as we’re all painfully aware, Dems do not message or frame anything of value when they’re on the campaign trail.