Saying that cheap insulin kills people seems like a hyperbolic, but essentially true statement. It's well known that you need to keep all sorts of things under

Saying that cheap insulin kills people seems like a hyperbolic, but essentially true statement. It's well known that you need to keep all sorts of things under control with type 1 to avoid long-term health complications. Blood sugar is the most obvious. I watched my father manage his for decades, starting in the 1980s. The technology improvements were interesting - his first insulin pump (about the size of a VHS tape), the custom software to data-dump his glucose meter, "supply-hacking" to keep the infusion sets affordable... He still had management challenges despite being a dedicated, disciplined, marathon-running Mormon on the leading-edge of treatment. He was fortunate enough to be involved in the DCCT/EDIC trials at the University of Washington, and took the early lessons about future complications very seriously. You make Diabetes harder to manage by removing modern improvements to the standard of care, and you are certainly going to see increases in deaths and severe negative outcomes.