UnitedHealthcare hits some diabetics in the wallet

The health insurer is raising the price of NovoLog by 250% while lowering the price of a similar drug, Humalog. The shift will force those on NovoLog to make difficult choices, business columnist David Lazarus says, and also shows how out of whack the healthcare system is.
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[budb11]

I like this guy. Seems to me the healthcare providers are trying to get prices as high as possible before Obamacare kicks in. Again we can see that finances take precedent over people in corporate America. Where are our leaders who should be standing up to these plutocrats for the regular citizen? This country is going to hell and we need to figure out what to do. Let's deal with the banksters and politicians first; maybe the rest of corporate America will get the message.

[silverlakeadjacent]

type 1 is childhood diabetes but you've only had diabetes for 3 years? That would make you a type 2.

[fyerfli77]

slonamu, you really should research types of diabetes before you talk. Type 2 usually can be cured with A LOT of work, but type 1 will never go away...those are, for the most part, the insulin dependent ones. I got it when I was 11 and it wasn't because I was lazy, but because it happens to run in my family.

[LarryTanoury]

That first comment is ridiculous. But great video and I hope you expose these corporate slime in your column. This is what Healthcare Reform needed to address, along with a public option (IMO). Got get 'em!

[slonamu]

I think it is time for people to imbrace natural heath care and stop paying to the farnacuticle roberies. You can cure Diabetis. You have to work on it, not just be lasy and get your pill every day. To be heathy takes a lot of work... But you save money too...