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As any person living with chronic health conditions will tell you, being sick is expensive.
I recently calculated that I spent $1,068 last year on insulin. And this high cost doesn’t even account for my other medical treatments and prescriptions. This is why I’m grateful for President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which has reduced insulin and prescription costs for Michigan seniors and retirees like me.
Thanks to the IRA, I, like millions of other Americans benefiting from the insulin copay cap, now pay just $35 a month for one of my two insulins. I will pay $528 for insulin this year because of the IRA—less than half of what I spent last year. That’s a huge difference. The Biden administration’s work on the issue of drug pricing has brought some much-needed relief to my life as I manage my diabetes and unrelated illnesses.
The above excerpt was originally published in The 'Gander.
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