[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3511]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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