Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
For Quinn Nystrom, and millions of other Americans living with Type 1 Diabetes, insulin affordability is a “real crisis issue.”
So Nystrom took it upon herself to find a temporary solution. Last week, she and seven others organized a four-car “caravan” from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to drive 600 miles across the border to Fort Francis, Ontario, in Canada to purchase the life-saving insulin they all needed.
“It was a black and white difference,” Nystrom told ThinkProgress of her experience purchasing insulin at a Canadian pharmacy. In the United States, she said, as a self-employed 33-year-old who makes “a decent living” and has health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, she pays approximately $600 for two vials of insulin — a cost that remains high until she meets her $2,800 deductible.
In Canada, Nystrom said, she paid one-tenth of that cost, spending only $300 for 10 vials of insulin.
https://thinkprogress.org/caravan-o...-to-purchase-affordable-insulin-f1c7a94b8cc5/
So Nystrom took it upon herself to find a temporary solution. Last week, she and seven others organized a four-car “caravan” from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to drive 600 miles across the border to Fort Francis, Ontario, in Canada to purchase the life-saving insulin they all needed.
“It was a black and white difference,” Nystrom told ThinkProgress of her experience purchasing insulin at a Canadian pharmacy. In the United States, she said, as a self-employed 33-year-old who makes “a decent living” and has health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, she pays approximately $600 for two vials of insulin — a cost that remains high until she meets her $2,800 deductible.
In Canada, Nystrom said, she paid one-tenth of that cost, spending only $300 for 10 vials of insulin.
https://thinkprogress.org/caravan-o...-to-purchase-affordable-insulin-f1c7a94b8cc5/
