Senate Republicans “Have Just Gone On The Record In Favor Of Expensive Insulin”

MSNBC: “Among the 43 were quite a few senators who are up for re-election this year, including Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, Florida’s Marco Rubio”
Fortune: “Democrats immediately attacked Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Marco Rubio of Florida, who are up for re-election, over their votes to strip a $35 insulin cap from the tax bill”

A wave of news coverage is calling out Senate Republicans who voted to block the “cap on insulin costs for millions of patients” – including “quite a few senators who are up for re-election this year” like Ron Johnson and Marco Rubio who were “immediately attacked” for siding with Big Pharma.

See for yourself:

• New York Times: Republicans force the removal of a measure that would cap insulin prices at $35 for private insurers. “Senate Republicans on Sunday forced the removal of a Democratic proposal that would have capped insulin prices at $35 for private insurers.”

• MSNBC: Senate Republicans derail insulin price cap for many consumers. “Among the 43 were quite a few senators who are up for re-election this year, including Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, Florida’s Marco Rubio, Iowa’s Chuck Grassley, and Utah’s Mike Lee — each of whom could’ve done the popular thing to help consumers, but they chose not to.”

• Fortune: GOP strips insulin out-of-pocket cap from bill: ‘Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin’. “Democrats immediately attacked Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Marco Rubio of Florida, who are up for re-election, over their votes to strip a $35 insulin cap from the tax bill.”

• Washington Post: Republicans block cap on insulin costs for millions of patients. “Some 7 million Americans require insulin daily. A Yale University study found that 14 percent of those insulin users are spending more than 40 percent of their income after food and housing costs on the medicine.”

• NBC News: Republicans block cap on insulin costs for many Americans from Democratic deal. “Republican senators on Sunday voted down a cap on the price of insulin in the private market.”

• CBS News: Senate Republicans block $35 cap on price of insulin from Democratic bill. “Senate Republicans on Sunday blocked a $35 monthly cap on the cost of insulin in the private market from being included in Democrats’ economic tax and spending package.”

• Rolling Stone: Insulin Will Remain Expensive for Many, Thanks to Republicans. “‘Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin,’ Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said after Republicans voted to remove an insulin price cap from the Inflation Reduction Act. ‘After years of tough talk about taking on insulin makers, Republicans have once agains wilted in the face of heat from Big Pharma.’”

• Salon: Republicans block insulin price cap for private insurance in Inflation Reduction Act. “‘The cost of insulin isn’t just out of control,’ Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said on the Senate floor, imploring the GOP not to strip the price cap from the bill per The Washington Post’s report. ‘This should not be a hard vote to cast.’”

• The Root: Republicans Vote No On Warnock Proposal To Cap Insulin Prices To $35 For Insured. “43 Republicans voted to block Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-GA) proposal for a $35-per-month limit on insulin costs under private insurance plans in the Inflation Reduction Act.”

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