Hey there, right after the holidays, I got an email from a listener named Brianna,

and it started, happy New Year Dan. I was just reading the news about the price of insulin

going down to $35. Is that for everyone? And I was like, huh, I mean, I had a sense there was some news about the price of insulin,

but $35 a month for everyone.

That's not like a big reduction in, you know, big news.

And I Google the latest stories and I wasn't totally sure what I was seeing.

I was definitely seeing some new stories

about people paying 35 bucks from here on out and there seemed to be some federal

law involved in politicians were patting themselves in the back but it just wasn't

totally clear. Was insulin now $35 for everyone? I mean, did the

outrageous price of insulin get solved while I wasn't looking? And I mean I've kind of been

looking. We've done a couple of episodes about the price of insulin already because

insulin is iconic. It represents the wild cost of prescription drugs in this country. More than

8 million Americans take insulin to treat their diabetes and for some going

without it could actually kill you.

And insulin's price got jacked up so much,

like huge multiples over 10 years,

that one in four of those people who could not go without

took to rationing, seeing how much they could go without, short of actually

dying. So I asked our senior producer, Emily P. C. C. C.

To take on the case. I feel more like the senior insulin correspondent, which is fine with me as the resident

type 1 diabetic, and a lot has happened since the last time we talked about insulin on this show, so we really do need an update.

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