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So if 100% of uninsured people have taken out credit card debt for insulin, merely 60% of insured people have! That doesn’t sound much better.

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Sure, but I'm skeptical of all the claims made here given the lack of clarity in the example I point out above. This is not a peer-reviewed study, it's a "survey" performed by a company with very little information given about methods.

Yea the op is bringing up a bunch of details to obscure the findings. Its still really bad no matter how you slice it, and trying to slice it a bunch of different ways to make it look less bad is just disingenuous

I don't believe this is true. I'm merely calling out the lack of detail on methodology of this "study". They are already pretty explicit that this isn't a true random sample, but I'd like more info on how. For all I know, this study was done on CharityRx's own website, which presumably caters to people who are less likely to be able to afford insulin in the first place.

I'm not in any way saying insulin prices aren't an issue, but at the same time, I don't think misleading headlines are helpful either.

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