24 July 2018 - As the Trump administration sought credit last week for its efforts to lower drug prices, a mother in Long Island took to Twitter — the president's favorite medium — to lament the exorbitant cost of her daughter's insulin.

For Doreen Rudolph, the tweet she fired off early Saturday was similar to many she had before about her daughter's lifesaving diabetes medication. But this time, for reasons she can't quite explain, her words went viral. By Monday, 68,000 had liked it, 23,000 retweeted it and 2,700 had replied to it with suggestions and offers to help. 

Even Andy Slavitt, who ran the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the last two years of the Obama administration, retweeted Rudolph, alerting his 211,000 followers to her situation.

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