A protest over insulin prices is seen as a fight for life - STAT

A protest over insulin prices is seen as a fight for life - STAT





Good morning! Andrew Joseph here filling in for Megan.
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Inside STAT: A protest over insulin prices is seen as a fight for life

ANTROINETTE WORSHAM HOLDS SOME OF HER DAUGHTER'S ASHES. (HYACINTH EMPINADO/STAT)

On a recent morning, a group of protestors rallied outside the Cambridge, Mass., office of Sanofi, urging the company to lower the cost of the insulin it manufactures. Some said they faced the choice of paying their rent or for their insulin. A few saw their children die after they rationed the drug. “It is a medication that all type 1 diabetics need to survive. And without it, they will die like my daughter did,” said Antroinette Worsham, whose daughter died last year at 22. Sanofi is among the nation’s largest insulin makers — several of which have hiked the prices of the drug in recent years. STAT’s Hyacinth Empinado documented the rally — check out her video here.