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save people money on thei
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yet potentially life savi
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and $700. But a new bill
at just $60. Prices for a
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spoke with Colorado's who
say capping the price cou
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I'm allergic to mangoes,
but with some puppies and
her furry friends aren't
take Tylenol acetaminophe
a few years ago. She went
her back pain when she sa
painkiller shot Toradol a
was allergic to Toradol.
going into anaphylactic s
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given an EpiPen. It was t
she had more allergies th
allergic to almost every
know almost every pain me
know, most allergic to a
like, you might as well j
of an EpiPen. It was craz
of thousands of people in
EpiPen prescription. Alwa
thigh. You can put it thr
have to push extremely ha
it click. So after it cli
know, right now for a pac
someone between six and $
The generic version is ab
expire after about a year
use. Come on Bradley. Has
insurance? But that's not
The first thing you do is
prescription is you look
to hope that it expires a
And Bernard's daughter Ed
to peanuts and tree nuts.
she's deathly and she sai
mrs Bernard, the word dea
with and she named off th
nuts. She discovered the
was only 17 months old Kl
her face was twice the si
crying. She doesn't know
is now in middle school a
with her allergies but a
says she usually waits un
prescription drug deducti
is about $3000 at the mer
And they know that State
at a solution, deciding w
this lifesaving medicatio
of making rent or not. Re
Mayberry of sponsoring a
the cost at $60 for a pac
the manufacturer of $5 to
just extra profit. It's a
to build the legislature
cap the cost of insulin.
bipartisan support right
Republican sponsors. Mabr
the aisle though will be
pass this bill as well an
fewer people. Um So if th
going that expensive on i
that my Republican collea
work with us on this as w
have some opposition from
that's not affecting the
of the drug and it's just
from that the counter to
up into premiums later on
Arnold is with the Colora
Health Plans. It's the tr
the insurance industry ca
the consumer at the count
deal with the root cause
price of these drugs to b
it on. But for people lik
the price is just way too
proposal is something tha
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is a life saving medicati
not like a prescription l
something. It's just not,
that we can go without di
health care costs. The ri
health insurance plans la
more expensive prescripti
to the Kaiser Family Foun
workers had a health plan
of at least $1,000 in 200
to half of all workers. T
in America now sits at $1