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Colorado House moving bills aimed at high healthcare costs
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DENVER – House Democrats have made good, so far, on their promise to pass bills aimed at curbing healthcare costs, and Thursday they passed one out of committee to address the high cost of insulin. House Bill 1009, sponsored by Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, would require pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, insurers and nonprofits to…
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IN RESPONSE: We need transparency now in prescription-drug pricing
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As a Type 1 diabetic, I have a choice: inject insulin or die. Every day for the last 46 years, I have injected insulin; if I go 24 hours without it, I will die a horrible death. When insulin was discovered in the 1920s, the patent was sold for one dollar. The researchers wanted to…
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State Rep. Dylan Roberts plans to introduce bill to bring transparency to insulin prices in Colorado
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Inspired by a Nevada law that takes effect Monday, state Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, plans to introduce legislation when the Colorado General Assembly convenes next week to require transparency about insulin pricing from drug manufacturers. “If you have Type I diabetes, you cannot live without insulin, and it’s one of the prescription drugs whose price…
