Health

Walz lauds new insulin affordability law, blasts Big Pharma for suing

Nicole Smith-Holt speaks as her husband and Gov. Tim Walz listen.
Gov. Tim Walz, right, listens as Nicole Smith-Holt, right, and her husband, James Holt Jr., parents of Alec Smith, address the media Wednesda in St. Paul as Minnesota's new law mandating that drug makers provide emergency and longer-term insulin supplies to diabetics who can't afford them went into effect. Their 26-year-old son Alec died of diabetic complications in 2017 because he was forced to ration his supply of the drug.
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