# Well written article on the Insulin price problem **URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/well-written-article-on-the-insulin-price-problem/10325 **Category:** Share **Created:** [October 7, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/well-written-article-on-the-insulin-price-problem/10325 "2020-10-07T20:08:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric) #### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/well-written-article-on-the-insulin-price-problem/10325/2 "2020-10-08T04:35:41Z")
A quote from the article: > A vial that cost $25 to $30 20 years ago can now can [sic] (cost) 10 to 15 times that much. And a reminder of the post a while back mentioning that **without any insurance** , you can get any of the Novo Nordisk insulin products for $33 per vial. > [@NovoCares insulin savings program - only $33 a vial](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/novocares-insulin-savings-program-only-33-a-vial/9620): > > Referenced from this thread about Lilly Here is some information about the program Novo Nordisk has. (Novo Nordisk is the maker of Tresiba, Levemir, NovoLog, Fiasp, and many other fine insulin products!) Novo Nordisk has been in the cross-fire about insulin prices, but actually, a lot of the problem is the way the insurance companies and pharmacies and third-party administrators of the prescription drug plans (PBM’s) mark the prices up. So to counter this, Novo Nordisk basically said they w… I bought it that way to test it. It really works. $99 for 3 vials. This is not the slow Walmart insulin, this is any of the good stuff made by Novo, including NovoLog, Fiasp, Levemir, or Tresiba. If people like those in the article do not know this, it is up to us to spread the word with our site and by word-of-mouth. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/well-written-article-on-the-insulin-price-problem/10325)._