[HN] California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin
[HN] California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin
Bill denial for the prescription drug price cap called ‘a major setback’ for diabetics in the state
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This motherfucker just hates bills.
For those not keeping track:
No unemployment for strikers.
No $35 insulin.
No decriminalization of mushrooms.
No hearing aids for kids.
No free condoms for high schoolers.
No safe drug injection sites.
No ban on caste discrimination.
No stripping Jan 6 supporting non-profits of their non-profit status.
No mandatory kindergarten.
No free public transit for grade schoolers.
No reduction of light pollution.
No San Joaquin Valley air quality.
No requirement for custody cases to consider gender affirmation.
No requirement for a human driver in self-driving trucks.
No shield preventing undocumented immigrants in California custody to be reported to the Feds.
No prohibition of foreign governments to buy agricultural land.
No deadline extension for reparations committee.
No end to indefinite solitary confinement.
No limit to the governor's emergency powers.
No BitLicense.
No high school ethnic studies requirement.
No ranked choice voting.
No paid family leave raise.
No college financial aid increase.
No interpersonal communication lessons for cops.
No monetary sobriety incentives.
No decriminalization of jaywalking.
No allowing bicyclists to roll through stop signs.
And likely many more. These were just the ones I could find in a short search and were at least moderately annoyed by.
I'm not familiar with California's government, but I'm assuming there's a mechanism to overturn a veto. Hopefully, they have the votes and can do what their constituents elected them to do.
Just not the ones he sends to special interest groups.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The bill would have banned health plans and disability insurance policies from imposing any out-of-pocket expenses on insulin prescription drugs above $35 for a 30-day supply.
California has a $50m contract with the non-profit pharmaceutical company Civica Rx to manufacture the insulin under the brand CalRx.
“With CalRx, we are getting at the underlying cost, which is the true sustainable solution to high-cost pharmaceuticals,” Newsom wrote in a message explaining why he vetoed the bill on Saturday.
State senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco who crafted the bill, called Newsom’s veto “a major setback that will keep tens of thousands of diabetic Californians trapped in the terrible choice between buying insulin and buying food”.
“This is a missed opportunity that will force them to wait months or years for relief from the skyrocketing costs of medical care when they could have had it immediately,” Wiener said in a news release.
In January, California attorney general Rob Bonta sued the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of colluding to illegally increase the price.
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Is it just me, or does Gavin Newsom straight up suck?
Condom bill was also struck down by this corporate crip.