And that 30 day supply of insulin cost me $684. Wow. I didn't have that kind of money. I put it on a credit card. And I soon learned that Texans with diabetes, some of them were rationing or skipping doses. Some of them were dying because they couldn't afford their insulin. So when I won that race in Williamson County, I brought Democrats and Republicans together to beat Big Pharma and their lobbyists. And we capped insulin at $25 per prescription in the state of Texas. (14:42–14:50)
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