6) Insulin is off patent now. But pharma has patent hacked their way to keep charging over $300 a vial in the US… all while it is just $20-30 a vial in Canada. There is no excuse it should be that much higher in US.
I still can't get over this, one of the most important "natural experiments" to come from COVID:
https://t.co/Oso2eDVOKH
It's all right there in front of us, a free lunch pathway to reducing some of the most immense cruelty in our society.
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
Since I’ve started using a cane, I’ve noticed a lot of actors & cartoonists who don’t use them aren’t sure how to depict characters with them! Here’s a simple cheat sheet to help: