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> If your insulin dose is too expensive, you die. While that is true, you are not including the option of switching to a cheaper insulin. The older insulins (

> If your insulin dose is too expensive, you die. While that is true, you are not including the option of switching to a cheaper insulin. The older insulins (R/N/L) were, the last time I checked, something like $25 per bottle, over the counter.

TeaDrunk 6y ago
Cheaper insulin is worse insulin, harder to manage, and ultimately will shorten your lifespan. If you've never used it before/are underresourced about its useage it can 100% still mean a death sentence. Still inelastic imo.
- RHSeeger 6y ago
  I was replying to the statement that "if your insulin is too expensive, you die". Cheaper insulin is not harder to manage than dying.
  - TeaDrunk 6y ago
    Cheaper insulin, being harder to manage, can and does kill you.