Taxpayers' Share of US Prescription Drug and Insulin Costs: a Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug prices affect government budgets directly through spending on public programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and indirectly via private coverage for public employees and tax subsidies for private insurance. Yet, the Senate parliamentarian ruled that the Senate could not use streamlined Budget Reconciliation to extend the Inflation Reduction Act's controls on insulin co-payment or drug prices to private insurers on the grounds that their expenditures do not affect the federal budget.

Objective

To quantify insulin and other drug costs borne by federal, state, and local governments, including direct expenditures and indirect government subsidies that flow through private insurers.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of expenditures for outpatient retail prescrip

SUBMITTER: Schrier E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12045909 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature