#shorts On 7/11/2023, during senate Appropriations hearing about insulin, Senator Kennedy asked, “Now, I know our health insurance companies, and God bless them, they’re trying to work with us to lower the cost of insulin, and they have these programs they call them patient assistance programs. So if you’re uninsured and you can’t afford your insulin, they’ll work with you. But have you ever tried to apply for one of those programs if either of you, any of you? Oh my God! First, the application process. The fine print, the apply, it’s so much of it you could hide a dead body in there, nobody’d ever find it. Number two, they send the medicine to your doctor, not to you. So if you’ve got a job or if you don’t have a job, you’ve got to go to the expense of driving all the way to your doctor’s office, probably have to pay your doctor to get the medication. I mean, that’s a special kind of stupid. These programs only cover one or two forms of insulin. And get this, yeah, they’ll give you cheap insulin, maybe free insulin for a month or three months, alright, at best a year. And then after a year, you go in one day, and instead of 30 bucks, it’s $567.23, and you go, “My God,l I gotta go sell blood plasma to be able to afford it.” We need to stop nibbling around the edges. We need to be smart enough to figure this out. And the cost, I think it could be done for 250 million a year. And I’m not talking about taking out a reverse mortgage on Alaska and borrowing more money. I’m talking about finding it in our budget.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/besUOZFL4Qs
Kennedy: have you ever tried to apply, any of you? Oh my God! fine print could hide a dead body