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From the article: > There have been few efforts to create a cheaper insulin. Walmart, for instance, sells Novo Nordisk's human insulin under the name ReliOn fo

From the article: > There have been few efforts to create a cheaper insulin. Walmart, for instance, sells Novo Nordisk's human insulin under the name ReliOn for $25 a vial. Eli Lilly is expected to release the first copycat insulin analog, a chemically altered form of insulin, at the end of this year. You can buy this product right now, it is the same formulation you would have taken if you were diabetic in the 1990s. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pharmacy-Relion-Humulin-Insulin/167672445 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pharmacy-Relion-Humulin-Insulin/1... I am amazed by how many diabetics and GPs don't know this exists.

Zimahl 9y ago
As the husband of a type-1 wife, I just wanted to add that there is a difference in insulin that isn't just long-acting or short-acting. Different people can react differently to different insulins. My wife used the ReliOn brand for both for a while, and even though the short-acting was fine, the long-acting was way too inconsistent (some very non-deterministic lows and highs). Switching to Levemir long-acting smoothed those out. That said, nothing inherently wrong with the ReliOn brand if that's all one can afford. My wife forgot her short-acting insulin for a long weekend trip one time and it was nice to know what we could simply buy some insulin out of pocket and not get gouged to death. > am amazed by how many diabetics and GPs don't know this exists. I've noticed that GPs don't know enough about diabetes, one needs a specialist to really get control of it.