The Mike Enzi Foundation for Lower-Cost Imported Insulin Should Exist
In my blog post about the Senate Finance Committee hearing on drug prices, I noted my surprise at Senator Mike Enzi’s (R-WY) comment that he knew about a foundation that helps people import lower-cost insulin from Canada. Sen. Enzi stated that a person referred to as his diabetes advisor had “found a way to work through a foundation to import insulin for a number of people at lower-cost. And I think he worked for a foundation so that it would be legal.” I had endeavored to look into it, but fortunately Jay Hancock from Kaiser Health News beat me to it and found, sadly, no such insulin import program exists. I think we can all agree that it should!
In researching the story, Jay asked me if I knew of such a program.
Nope.
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