Advocates say an agreement to make insulin affordable for all Minnesotans with diabetes fell apart at the end of the legislative session under pressure by drug manufacturers — and Quinn Nystrom with the group “Minnesota Insulin for All” accuses Senate Republicans of caving. She says, “I think this sort of lackadaisical kind of attitude about, well, this bill, you know, there was a lot of bills to choose from and that’s just the way that it works — that doesn’t work.”
Senate Republican Majority Leader Paul Gazelka responds proposed ideas must be hammered out and “Minnesota will get this right by working together, not by using insulin access as a divisive political tool.”