Warnock, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Cap Insulin Costs at $35 a Month

TheINSULIN Act of 2026caps out-of-pocket costs at $35 a month for private insurance insulin users and lowers the cost of insulin for uninsured diabeticsSenator Warnock helped secure funding for a new 10-state pilot program to help community health centers provide affordable insulin to uninsured patientsOver 12%of Georgia’s population has diabetes, and hundreds of thousands more remain undiagnosedSenator Reverend Warnock:“No one should be forced to put their health or life in danger because they can’t afford insulin or don’t know where to get it”
Washington, D.C.– Today, U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), John Kennedy (R-LA), and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced theImproving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act of 2026.This updated legislation caps out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 a month for private insurance holders across the country and helps lower the cost of insulin for uninsured diabetics. The bipartisan bill builds on Senator Warnock’s legislation thatcapped insulin costs for seniorsand was signed into law in 2022.
TheINSULIN Act of 2026includes a Senator Warnock provision that would establish a 10-state pilot grant program that awards funding to community health centers to help provide affordable insulin to uninsured patients. The legislation also establishes an insulin resource center and hotline to help connect uninsured people with diabetes to resources they need to obtain insulin.
“I’m proud to have expanded the bipartisan coalition of Senators who agree insulin should be affordable for everyone, including uninsured Americans,”said Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock.“Our legislation also provides a pathway of funding to community health centers so they can continue reaching people who would benefit from insulin priced at $35 or less. No one should be forced to put their health or life in danger because they can’t afford insulin or don’t know where to get it.”
Senator Warnock has long been a champion of lowering insulin costs for Georgians since joining the Senate. Since 2022, Senator Warnock has introduced legislation each Congress to lower insulin costs and help make prescription drug prices more affordable for Georgians. He first spearheaded legislation that was included in theInflation Reduction Actand capped insulin costs for seniors at $35 per month. In 2023, Senators Warnock and Kennedy introduced theAffordable Insulin Now Act of 2023, to cap the cost of insulin for everyone who needs it at $35. Later in 2023, Warnock and Kennedy released areportanalyzing county-level data across the country to examine counties with both high rates of uninsured people and high rates of diabetes — which the Senators termed “Insulin Deserts”.
Costs to treat diabetes have continued to rise for many Americans. According to theHealth Care Costs Institute, insulin prices nearly doubled from 2012 to 2021, with the average price for a 30-day supply of insulin increasing from $271 to $499 during that span. According to theAmerican Diabetes Association, medical costs and lost work and wages for people with diagnosed diabetes total $412.9 billion each year, and has asserted that diabetics account for$1 of every $4spent on health care in the U.S.
Read full text of the billHERE
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