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Case in point: insulin, a drug that has not changed substantially in almost a century, now costs so much that Eli Lilly is getting press for producing a generic that “only” costs $137 per vial, which is half of the name-brand price ($275). In 1996, insulin cost $21 per vial. Inflation isn’t that ridiculous, and according to CNN the cost for manufacturing insulin for a person for an entire year is about what it costs to buy one of these new generic vials.

According to an online inflation calculator, the inflation since 1996 has been 60%, so that $21 vial of insulin would cost $33.69 in 2019 dollars.