The cute pharmacist says

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Lilly released last fall a low cost “generic” Humalog known as Lispro that many PBMs won’t cover because there isn’t enough margin in the price for them to cover the kickbacks.

Here’s a post from a year ago that focuses on the PBM thing:

Express Scripts won’t cover Lilly’s generic insulin

WRITTEN BY: Todd Boudreaux Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) in the U.S., recently released a list of formulary exclusions that included ‘Insulin Lispro’ as an excluded medication. Insulin Lispro — the generic version of Humalog recently released by Eli Lilly — has a list price of $137.50, half that of brandname Humalog, which remains on Express Scripts’ formulary. The exclusion does not necessarily apply to Medicare Plans. Formularies are lists of approved drugs that…