{"id":51051,"date":"2022-08-03T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51051"},"modified":"2022-08-03T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:29:45","slug":"progressives-urge-inclusion-of-uninsured-in-insulin-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51051","title":{"rendered":"PROGRESSIVES URGE INCLUSION OF UNINSURED IN INSULIN PROPOSAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House progressives are calling on leadership to include people without health insurance in any legislation that limits out-of-pocket costs for insulin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats are pushing to include a $35 cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs as part of a larger reconciliation bill, though it\u2019s still unclear if such a provision would be allowed under the arcane Senate rules for passing the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to bipartisan House and Senate leaders, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Tri-Caucus (comprised of the Black, Hispanic and Asian and Pacific American caucuses) said any cost savings should also apply to the uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to do so will deepen health disparities and increase long-term healthcare costs,\u201d the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would it work?\u00a0<\/strong>The lawmakers said a universal cap on insulin costs could be accomplished either by using existing Medicaid payment structures to reimburse pharmacies or by establishing a fund in the Department of Health and Human Services that reimburses insurance providers and pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House progressives are calling on leadership&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51052,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51051\/revisions\/51052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}