WASHINGTON Insulin will be a lot cheaper for senior citizens, even if it won’t be for everyone else. But not if Big Pharma and Big Business, also known as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, stop that cut.
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Like others seeking change, such as disability rights advocates and the Black Lives Matter movement, diabetes activists have used social media hashtags to find one another, build momentum, and change the public conversation.
Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who'd hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the amount of insulin delivered.
Twitter has been a hotbed for the insulin access movement and activism surrounding other medical conditions - helping propel concern about the prices into policy. Can it continue to win with hashtags?