{"id":22675,"date":"2024-04-05T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22675"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:51:31","slug":"biden-is-right-about-35-insulin-cap-but-exaggerates-prior-costs-for-medicare-enrollees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22675","title":{"rendered":"Biden Is Right About $35 Insulin Cap but Exaggerates Prior Costs for Medicare Enrollees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Samantha Putterman, Politifact for KFF Health News on April 5, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost of insulin in the United States has risen considerably in recent years, with some estimates finding that Americans have paid around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aspe.hhs.gov\/reports\/comparing-insulin-prices-us-other-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 times<\/a>\u00a0as much for the drug as people in other developed countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/fact-check-president-biden-insulin-price-cap-half-true\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samantha Putterman, Politifact for KFF Health News on April 5, 2024 The cost of insulin in the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,200,15,39],"tags":[385,264,61,65,94],"class_list":["post-22675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-price-transparency","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-insulin","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22676,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions\/22676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}