HORRIBLE Insulin Prices Have Risen Some 400% Over The Last 10 Years.

In a greater than two-minute segment, NBC Nightly News (11/2, story 7, 2:20, Holt) reported on “outrage over the soaring cost of” insulin, which “has risen some 400 percent in the last decade, although the drug has been around for nearly 100 years.” NBC News correspondent Jo Ling Kent explained that the high prices of insulin are leaving some “desperate patients” to plead “online saying they can’t afford the insulin they need to live.” Pharmaceutical makers are putting the blame for high prices on “insurance companies, saying more patients have high deductible plans, meaning they must pay more for drugs out of pocket.” http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/insulin-new-epipen-families-facing-sticker-shock-over-400-percent-n667536