How Minnesota Figures Into the Presidential Politics of Insulin Prices
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz goes to a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Sept. 17. Minnesota blazed a trail on insulin price, culminating in 2020 with Walz's finalizing of a law to cut expenses. (Peter Zay/Anadolu by means of Getty Images)
In June 2019, Lija Greenseid handed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an empty vial of insulin that her 13-year-old child had actually painted gold.
Greenseid's child has Type 1 diabetes, which indicates she needs day-to-day injections of produced insulin to survive. The rate of a single vial of insulin increased by about 1,200% in between 1996 and 2018, and the gold vial was a pointer, Greenseid stated, that this lifesaving pharmaceutical should not be as pricey as rare-earth element.
"What I heard is that gold vial stayed on his ...