{"id":177904,"date":"2019-05-08T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/08\/another-migrant-caravan\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:50:00","slug":"another-migrant-caravan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/08\/another-migrant-caravan\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Migrant Caravan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not Central American&#8217;s fleeing violence and poverty, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/caravan-americans-crossing-canadian-border-get-affordable-medical-care-1417582\">Americans who are going to Canada to flee extortionate drug prices<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A &#8220;caravan&#8221; of Americans living with Type 1 diabetes made its way across the U.S. border into Canada over the weekend in search of affordable medical care in a country where they can get the &#8220;exact same&#8221; life-saving drugs for a dramatically lower price. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re on a #CaravanToCanada because the USA charges astronomical prices for insulin that most people can&#8217;t afford,&#8221; tweeted caravan member Quinn Nystrom as she shared updates on the journey. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nystrom was among a group of Minnesotans who piled into cars on Friday to make the 600-mile journey from the Twin Cities to Fort Frances, Ontario, where she said insulin, the hormone patients with Type 1 Diabetes rely on to regulate their blood glucose levels, can be bought for a tenth of what it costs in the U.S. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The caravan was organized as part of a campaign launched under the banner &#8220;#insulin4all&#8221; to call on the U.S. government to regulate the cost of life-saving drugs, including insulin, and make medication affordable for anyone who needs it. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Insulin has been public domain for nearly 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Pharma has still found a way to charge exorbitant rents, and that our government facilitates this, is an indication of a deep and systemic problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not Central American&#8217;s fleeing violence and poverty, it&#8217;s Americans who are going to Canada to flee extortionate drug prices: A &#8220;caravan&#8221; of Americans living with Type 1 diabetes made its way across the U.S. border into Canada over the weekend in search of affordable medical care in a country where they can get the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,475,517,588,438,567],"class_list":["post-177904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-drugs","tag-fail","tag-immigration","tag-pharma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}