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she/her | #Insulin4All, #Disability, chronic illness advocate | tea enthusiast
Jan 22, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
I'm seeing a lot about Biden freezing the Trump EO on insulin so it's thread time:

This seems counterintuitive but this freeze is actually a GOOD thing for patients. The original EO was pharma backed, giving them a way to back out of the #340b program 1/

modernhealthcare.com/community-heal… The #340b program, is a life-saving program that provides healthcare and medicine to the most vulnerable. 15.5% of #diabetics get their insulin from the program. Since the EO came out, many people have seen their monthly insulin rise from $15-> over $1000 2/