Comparisons to the older times would be more apt if people weren't today dying for example from diabetes not from lack of medical knowledge, but of price of the

Comparisons to the older times would be more apt if people weren't today dying for example from diabetes not from lack of medical knowledge, but of price of the insulin. It is also relevant that insulin is not fundamentally expensive to produce, and that in other first world nations, this kind of death by healthcare driven financial cuts simply do not occur.