I don't know if that's true or not, but it still only costs about $6 per vial to manufacture human grade insulin: https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-prices

I don't know if that's true or not, but it still only costs about $6 per vial to manufacture human grade insulin: https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-prices-could-be-much-lower-and-drug-makers-would-still-make-healthy-profits-2018-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-prices-could-be-much... Apologies for citing Business Insider. It was just conveniently on the first page of Google search results.