{"id":1863,"date":"2007-01-14T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/bridling-at-ins\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T15:29:22","slug":"bridling-at-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/bridling-at-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridling at Insulin’s Cost, States Push for Generics – New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Link to Bridling at Insulin\u2019s Cost, States Push for Generics – New York Times<\/a> <\/p>\n

I am surprised that there are no generic insulins, too.  But then making insulin is a completely difference process than making regular drugs.<\/p>\n

  Of course, long acting regular insulin is fairly cheap and can be obtained without a prescription, per Lanting’s philosophy.  For example, if you go out to Walmart.com and find their mail order pharmacy, you can get regular insulin for 48.46 for 3 vials.<\/p>\n

Now a pump user CAN use that insulin, but you have to remember that most modern pumps use a shorter acting insulin and are programmed to deal with it.  <\/p>\n

The good news is that Walmart sells the more rapid activing insulin for the same price, and they also sell 70\/30 for that same price.<\/p>\n

Lower cost alternatives ARE needed.  Not everyone is as lucky as I have to have great insurance, and even I didn’t at one time, and that could change again.<\/p>\n

And I will admit there are times that needing my insurance have kept me from doing other things.  It’s even kept me from other school districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to Bridling at Insulin\u2019s Cost, States Push for Generics – New York Times I am surprised that there are no generic insulins, too.  But then making insulin is a completely difference process than making regular drugs.   Of course, long acting regular insulin is fairly cheap and can be obtained without a prescription, per Lanting’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}