In a recent speech, President Biden overstated the average monthly cost that patients were paying prior to the Inflation Reduction Act: The out-of-pocket cost for insulin was $58 for a 30-day supply, says a HHS report.

"Finally, we beat Big Pharma," said President Joe Biden to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday at a White House event to promote efforts to lower the cost of asthma inhalers and other health-care expenses.

Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's district attorney, filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and other drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers, on behalf of the 1.1 million Pennsylvanians who have diabetes, like himself.

The city of Baltimore, which paid more than $11 million in 2023 for diabetes medications through its self-funded plan, is suing the drug manufacturers, for allegedly conspiring to artificially hike the price of insulin.