I am a retiree with the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System. I am a diabetic who needs to take injectable insulin. I am covered by CVS Caremark Silver Script for my prescriptions through OPERS. I ordered 18 vials of Novolin N insulin and was “assessed” a charge of $2,373.56 because that is what the plan stated it paid. However, I found that I could buy the same quantity from Walmart for $447.84!

I request that Gov. Mike DeWine, the Ohio Department of Insurance and OPERS investigate how this could happen.

I will not be buying insulin anymore from CVS Caremark until this despicable disparity is resolved and neither should readers. To me, this is unconscionable and wrong if one can buy it from Walmart, a retailer, at five times cheaper.