Americans with diabetes head to Canada: For us, insulin is like air
The high price of insulin across the country is forcing some families with type 1 diabetes to go north to buy the medication. From 2012 to 2016, the price of insulin nearly doubled in the U.S. and last weekend, about a dozen people took a bus 817 miles from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to London, Ontario, to buy the life-saving drug.
"For us, insulin is like air it's like oxygen, we need it," said Deb Souther, who has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 46 years.
Souther says she uses three vials of insulin a month. Even with insurance, she's paying more than $700 a month for medicine she can't live without. "It is very very worrisome, even with insurance, if you only have one vial or two vials sitting in your refrigerator," she said.
A lot of people on the bus traveled more than 800 miles. But for them, it's not about the miles -- it's about the message. That's why they drove all the way to London, Ontario, where insulin was developed nearly a century ago.
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