To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study and issue a report on the affordability of insulin.

SA 2058. Ms. SMITH (for herself and Mrs. Hyde-Smith) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. STUDY AND REPORT ON THE AFFORDABILITY OF INSULIN.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, shall--
(1) conduct a study that examines, for each type or
classification of diabetes (including type 1 diabetes, type 2
diabetes, gestational diabetes, and other conditions causing
reliance on insulin), the effect of the affordability of
insulin on--
(A) adherence to insulin prescriptions;
(B) rates of diabetic ketoacidosis;
(C) downstream impacts of insulin adherence, including
rates of dialysis treatment and end-stage renal disease;
(D) spending by Federal health programs on acute episodes
that could have been averted by adhering to an insulin
prescription; and
(E) other factors, as appropriate, to understand the
impacts of insulin affordability on health outcomes, Federal
Government spending (including under the Medicare program
under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395
et seq.) and the Medicaid program under title XIX of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.)), and insured
and uninsured individuals with diabetes; and
(2) not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of
this Act, submit to Congress a report on the study conducted
under paragraph (1).
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