A settlement Monday means free insulin for Minnesotans at or below 400% of the poverty line and for an out-of-pocket cap of $35 per monthly prescription, regardless of insurance, when paid in cash
From the column: "Our health care system needs market-based solutions that keep costs down, not government interference that allows Big Pharma to pad its profits at our expense."
From the column: "Focusing solely on drug prices obscures the reality that innovative new medicines, while sometimes expensive initially, offer tremendous clinical value."
Julie Louise Myhre-Schnell, 64, is accused of putting prescription medication in the feeding bag of her son, who is disabled. She reportedly said she “completely regretted he survived."
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Since 1996, the state of Minnesota has lost nearly 400 independent community pharmacies. While the Legislature just passed new laws to help, a national financial problem persists.
From the editorial: "Unused prescriptions can become a 'gateway to addiction.' Seemingly harmless, but they’re helping to fuel (overdoses)" after winding up in the wrong hands."
Local hospitals are bringing FDA-approved Bispecific T-cell Engager therapy to the region. Providers claim it could extend and improve blood cancer patients' quality of life.
From the editorial: "Some 17,000 pharmacies nationwide — including 18 here in Duluth, Superior, and Hermantown — are now designated as authorized collectors of unused prescription drugs."
From the editorial: "Canada has comprehensive price controls, however effective they may be, and the U.S. does not. Our consumers will continue to be stiffed until we have them, too."
