Insulin costs like $5 to make. This is murder.
“Insulin has become so expensive…”
Insulin doesn’t “become” expensive.
Three pharma companies set the price: Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi.
Their CEOs are: David A. Ricks ($16m/year), Lars F. Jørgensen ($3.5m/year), Olivier Brandicourt ($11.8m/year).
This. Is. Murder.
Eugenics, alive and well in 2019.
Not only is it cheap to make, there hasn’t even been any new discoveries or improvements to it even though pharma companies had a TON of time.
So they’re selling the exact same thing with an artificially larger price.
Remember this whenever someone claims price increases are necessary due to research