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I saw a show earlier this week, an insulin shot costs 2$ in rest of the world and 100+$ in the US. Isn't this loot?
by thewhitetulip 8y ago
I saw a show earlier this week, an insulin shot costs 2$ in rest of the world and 100+$ in the US.
Isn't this loot?
- rygxqpbsngav 8y agoMakes sense. Thanks to the advances in medical research in US, and the approach they take (i.e. divide divide and divide and dig to the nanoscopic level of human body to give a disease it's own name. ) There are more bespoke diseases in US than anywhere in the world. Drug industry has to keep itself busy to invent drugs just to affect that single bespoke disease.
- ausbah 8y agoonly if a person has a high copay?
- nabnob 8y agoOr doesn't have health insurance.
- vonmoltke 8y ago> I saw a show earlier this week, an insulin shot costs 2$ in rest of the world and 100+$ in the US. "Insulin" is not a singular thing. For various reasons, lower-cost insulins are difficult to impossible to find in the US, which is a problem. Also, some insulins are $2/dose in some parts of the world. Most insulins in the developed world are significantly more expensive than that (to whomever is paying for it), though still significantly less than what they cost in the US.
- thewhitetulip 8y agoYes, US users pay a lot for insulin. Price has shot up from single digit dollar to 3 digit from 70s to today