Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a partnership with a nonprofit generic drug company to provide insulin to Californians for $30 for 10 milliliters.
California will begin making its own low-cost insulin in an effort to make it more financially accessible amid soaring prices for the life-saving medication, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday announced a partnership with a nonprofit generic drug company to provide insulin to Californians for $30 for 10 milliliters -- which he said was as little as one-tenth of the current cost.
The program, which will be administered through CalRx, was characterized by the governor as "market disruption," which he hoped would prompt major drug companies to lower their prices for the drug. Newsom said manufacturing is set to begin later this year, and added that he anticipates "favorable treatment" from the FDA, and hopes to see delivery begin next year.Also announced Saturday was a deal that would allow California to manufacture its own lower-cost Naloxone, or Narcan, the drug that reverses the effect of an opioid overdose and is credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
Republicans said action was needed to save the state's hospital system, but blamed "years of underfunded Medi-Cal reimbursements have resulted in hospitals throughout the state not being able to pay their bills, putting them on the brink of collapse."
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