1.3 million Americans with diabetes ration insulin in the past year due to astronomical costs, study finds
rationing due to cost in the United States is common even among people with diabetes who have private health insurance, new data show.
Not surprisingly, those without insurance had the highest rationing rate, at nearly a third. However, those with private insurance also had higher rates, at nearly one in five, than the overall diabetes population. And those with public insurance — Medicare and Medicaid — had lower rates. And, although some states have also passed insulin co-pay caps that apply to privately insured people,"even a monthly cost of $35 can be a lot of money for people with low incomes. That isn't negligible. It's important to keep that in mind," said Gaffney, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Cambridge Health Alliance, Massachusetts.
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