Just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge that the Indianapolis Business Journal article covering skyrocketing Eli Lilly & Company insulin prices and the #insulin4all demonstration made the front page of the Indianapolis Business Journal! We are so excited. Here is a snippet from the article:
Next month, critics will take their complaint to Lilly’s doorstep. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Sept. 9, two patient groups plan to demonstrate at the company’s headquarters. Their goal: to “stop price-gouging” of people with diabetes, according to a flier circulating on the internet.
The main organizer is Elizabeth Rowley, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 4. She grew up in Illinois but now lives in England.
In an email exchange with IBJ, she said she could not move back to the United States for fear that the cost of diabetes would bankrupt her or force her to make “incredibly dangerous choices.”
“The insulin makers like to point to the ‘complex system’ to avoid blame for the insulin pricing crisis,” she wrote. “While the system is certainly broken, at the end of the day, these companies are the ones who set the prices.
Way to represent, Elizabeth! Check out the rest of the article here.