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Affordable California-Branded Insulin to Enter National Market

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Saturday a 10-year partnership with nonprofit drug company Civica Rx to manufacture the state’s own supply of insulin. Part of the state’s new CalRx program, the move is only the first step in California’s ambitious plan to produce more affordable generic prescription drugs — like overdose reversal medication naloxone — and make them available on the national market. We’ll talk about CalRx and how it could help address the nation’s drug affordability crisis. Guests: Angela Hart, senior correspondent covering health care politics and policy in California and the West, Kaiser Health News and California Healthline Kevin Wren, patient advocate and volunteer, California #insulin4all Robin Feldman, professor of law and Director of the Center for Innovation, UC Law; author of “Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, California will partner with nonprofit drug maker Civica RX to produce its own insulin,

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a major step in the state's ambitious plan to make low-cost

1:12.5

generic drugs under its own label, CalRX.

1:15.9

There's no state in America, none, period, not one, that comes close to doing what the state

1:21.4

of California has done on health care.

1:23.1

Governor Gavin Newsom also announced Saturday that he plans for the state to manufacture

1:27.2

naloxone, a drug for reversing opioid overdoses.

1:30.7

So how soon could all this happen?

1:32.7

We dive into California's effort to become the first state to make affordable prescription drugs.

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Join us.

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Welcome. Welcome to Forum.

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I'm Mina Kim.

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