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NY needs to boost access to insulin
Allie Marotta, right, who grew up in Patchogue and Bayport and has type 1 diabetes, joins fellow diabetics, health care advocates, and others calling for federal and state legislation making affordable insulin available to those who need it and can't afford it during a demonstration on World Diabetes Day across from the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan on Nov. 11. Credit: Charles Eckert
For New Yorkers with diabetes like me, obstacles to obtaining insulin have created a health crisis that we take as seriously as the spread of the coronavirus. Now, more than ever, we need Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state lawmakers to ensure we survive by making insulin more affordable and accessible.
I have Type 1 diabetes and if I stopped infusing or injecting insulin, I would die within a few days. Yet because of the high price of insulin, even though I have health insurance, I’ve had to ration the medication by taking less than is necessary for healthy blood sugar levels, risking early complications and death from high blood sugar. I’m not alone: According to studies by Yale University and T1International, 1 in 4 diabetics have skimped on insulin because they can’t afford it.
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