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“This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a law that would cap the price of insulin for consumers at $35 a month, saying the state will focus instead on producing its own insulin for $30 per vial – a plan that Newsom announced last March.”

It's been two years and California still does not produce it's own insulin and will not for the next decade. It's a nonsense to stop people from getting insulin! People currently with diabetes are having to pay fro insulin because of this.

The claim that California will not produce its own insulin for the next decade is not based on anything. You can disagree with this veto, but it's very misleading to act like Newsom is opposed to universal insulin access.

It is, the creation of insulin factories takes years, and even with it wouldn't be cheap in the slightest, production of Insulin is extremely expensive! The bill would have been government funded, the other expensive monopoly. He did this because it helped his billionaire buddies.

They're not building new insulin factories lol, they're contracting with existing manufacturers to produce insulin that the state will then sell. And yes, it is government funded... If you just capped insulin prices, insurance premiums would go way up.

This law wouldn’t have prohibited discrimination, it would have just constrained the discretion of judges in child custody proceedings. A parent’s non-affirmation of their child’s gender identity will still be a relevant factor if it negatively affects the child’s health, safety, and welfare.