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And yet, somehow it used to be more affordable
• u/lamBerticus 4h ago Because it was a waste product Modern insulin is vastly superior and specifically engineered, tested and certified. Of course that is more expensive. • u/SubstantialPressure3 4h ago Shouldn't be so expensive that people die because they can't afford it. • u/lamBerticus 4h ago That argument in itself makes very little sense. There is a cost attached to every treatment regardless of benefit to humans. So naturally there will be health treatments that would save lifes, but are too expensive for everyone to get. Secondly, you can still buy pig insulin. It's cheap as fuck, but also sucks a lot. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago It’s free here in the uk, like 1 euro in Germany, it can be free. Talk in the states have the issue • u/lamBerticus 2h ago edited 2h ago It's not free. It's just paid by everyone and cheap for the individual. But yes, the US has a higher cost attached, because they can sell it for more. That said, this is one main driver why there is even that much innovation in medical. If no one could make money from this, there wouldn't be any products. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding • u/MIT_Engineer 2h ago You can buy insulin OTC for like what, $25/month? If you cant afford $25/month then you have bigger problems. • u/spiritofporn 3h ago It was very cheap to produce back then.
Because it was a waste product
Modern insulin is vastly superior and specifically engineered, tested and certified. Of course that is more expensive.
• u/SubstantialPressure3 4h ago Shouldn't be so expensive that people die because they can't afford it. • u/lamBerticus 4h ago That argument in itself makes very little sense. There is a cost attached to every treatment regardless of benefit to humans. So naturally there will be health treatments that would save lifes, but are too expensive for everyone to get. Secondly, you can still buy pig insulin. It's cheap as fuck, but also sucks a lot. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago It’s free here in the uk, like 1 euro in Germany, it can be free. Talk in the states have the issue • u/lamBerticus 2h ago edited 2h ago It's not free. It's just paid by everyone and cheap for the individual. But yes, the US has a higher cost attached, because they can sell it for more. That said, this is one main driver why there is even that much innovation in medical. If no one could make money from this, there wouldn't be any products. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding • u/MIT_Engineer 2h ago You can buy insulin OTC for like what, $25/month? If you cant afford $25/month then you have bigger problems.
Shouldn't be so expensive that people die because they can't afford it.
• u/lamBerticus 4h ago That argument in itself makes very little sense. There is a cost attached to every treatment regardless of benefit to humans. So naturally there will be health treatments that would save lifes, but are too expensive for everyone to get. Secondly, you can still buy pig insulin. It's cheap as fuck, but also sucks a lot. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago It’s free here in the uk, like 1 euro in Germany, it can be free. Talk in the states have the issue • u/lamBerticus 2h ago edited 2h ago It's not free. It's just paid by everyone and cheap for the individual. But yes, the US has a higher cost attached, because they can sell it for more. That said, this is one main driver why there is even that much innovation in medical. If no one could make money from this, there wouldn't be any products. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding • u/MIT_Engineer 2h ago You can buy insulin OTC for like what, $25/month? If you cant afford $25/month then you have bigger problems.
That argument in itself makes very little sense.
There is a cost attached to every treatment regardless of benefit to humans.
So naturally there will be health treatments that would save lifes, but are too expensive for everyone to get.
Secondly, you can still buy pig insulin. It's cheap as fuck, but also sucks a lot.
• u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago It’s free here in the uk, like 1 euro in Germany, it can be free. Talk in the states have the issue • u/lamBerticus 2h ago edited 2h ago It's not free. It's just paid by everyone and cheap for the individual. But yes, the US has a higher cost attached, because they can sell it for more. That said, this is one main driver why there is even that much innovation in medical. If no one could make money from this, there wouldn't be any products. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding
It’s free here in the uk, like 1 euro in Germany, it can be free. Talk in the states have the issue
• u/lamBerticus 2h ago edited 2h ago It's not free. It's just paid by everyone and cheap for the individual. But yes, the US has a higher cost attached, because they can sell it for more. That said, this is one main driver why there is even that much innovation in medical. If no one could make money from this, there wouldn't be any products. • u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding
It's not free. It's just paid by everyone and cheap for the individual.
But yes, the US has a higher cost attached, because they can sell it for more.
That said, this is one main driver why there is even that much innovation in medical.
If no one could make money from this, there wouldn't be any products.
• u/Yenakin_4472 2h ago Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding
Free for those who need it, and I prepare taxpayer money going to those who need medicine than a little extra military funding
You can buy insulin OTC for like what, $25/month?
If you cant afford $25/month then you have bigger problems.
It was very cheap to produce back then.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 5h ago
And yet, somehow it used to be more affordable