Theo Chayegan just started [ [link removed] ]a petition to Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and
Sanofi to:

Lower the price of insulin now!

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[ [link removed] ]Antavia Lee-Worsham

Dear John,

I just started a petition titled "[ [link removed] ]Affordable Insulin Now!"

Antavia-Lee Worsham should still be here. Instead, two years ago at the
age of just 22 years old, she passed away because she could no longer
afford her insulin, a medication that costs companies less than the price
of a sandwich to produce. Before Antavia’s death, she was covered under
her mother’s high deductible health plan, but aged off of Children with
Medical Handicaps (CMH), a Government funded program secondary insurance
that covered all of the medication and equipment that she needed to manage
her Type I diabetes. This could at times be as costly as $1000 a month.
She began borrowing insulin from her grandfather, and then her sister,
before they could no longer afford to share their medication with her. It
was after she started rationing her own insulin that one day she died in
her home as a consequence of diabetic ketoacidosis also known as DKA.

[ [link removed] ]We must protect our families. Sign now to tell Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk,
and Sanofi that we won't allow them to profit from the deaths of our loved
ones.

Each and every day, millions of people across the country depend on
insulin to survive. While insulin has been around for decades,
pharmaceutical companies are getting away with charging astronomical
prices that place insulin out of reach for millions of Americans. Eli
Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi, three of the nation’s largest insulin
manufacturers -- are responsible for some of the worst price gouging the
industry has seen in recent times, raising their prices by 150 percent in
just the last five years. In fact, they are facing a class action lawsuit
right now from over 60 plaintiffs who hope the case will expose these
companies’ deceptive pricing practices and corporate greed.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign the petition and forward this email to make sure your
voice is heard? Add your name here.

If you've ever talked to someone who's said they have “the sugars,” then
you know which community is impacted by diabetes at the most
disproportionate rates. According to the U.S. Department of Health, Black
American adults are 80% more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to have
been diagnosed with diabetes by a physician; 3.5 times more likely to be
hospitalized for lower limb amputations; and twice as likely to die from
diabetes. While Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi continue to make
millions of dollars in profits from arbitrary insulin prices that keep
going up, it’s our aunties & uncles, our grandparents & cousins, and our
brothers & sisters who are forced to make the dangerous decision to ration
life-saving medication, or to go without it in the first place.

[ [link removed] ]Rising insulin costs are a matter of life and death for our community.
Take action to demand these companies lower the price of insulin now.

Enough is enough. It is completely within these companies’ power to reduce
their prices dramatically while still maintaining healthy profits. Yet, at
every turn they have denied the fact that they are unnecessarily hiking
their own prices, and have refused to comply with the public’s demand that
they be transparent about their costs of production. That’s not business
-- it’s an abuse of power that needs curbing immediately. The fight for
fair, transparent pricing in the insulin industry is the fight for the
dignity, health, and safety of the Black community and of our loved ones.
Take action to demand that Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi be
transparent about their costs of production and lower their prices now!

Thank you,

Theo Chayegan

 

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