The original insulin was harvested from the pancreases (pancreii?) of livestock, so it doesn’t scale.
There are other non-patented insulins available but they’re wretched by comparison: instead of 15 min to start working, it’s 4 hours, so it kind of wrecks your day.
The 3 makers operate as a cartel, check out the perhaps a smidge suspicious timing and amount of their price increases:
https://i.insider.com/5919f04be559f11c008b55ce?width=1067&format=jpeg
Some noise was made in Congress about it last year but the result was just another unpassed bill on McConnell’s desk.
America would need to get its appetite back for trust-busting, which I’d love to see.
