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If you’re referring to financial cost, it’s not at the expense of thousands, it’s at the expense of millions of diabetics in the US. (1) (2) Unless of course y

If you’re referring to financial cost, it’s not at the expense of thousands, it’s at the expense of millions of diabetics in the US. (1) (2) Unless of course you mean the expense of thousands of dead or permanently disabled diabetics, that is the correct ballpark! (3)(4) (1) https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes (2) https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2022/06/20/4-out-of-5-americans-with-diabetes-went-into-debt-to-pay-for-insulin-new-survey-shows/?sh=368d32316fb5 https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2022/06/20/4-out-of-5... (3) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/insulin-prices-2019-diabetes-rationing-insulin-amid-rising-drug-prices-sanofi/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/insulin-prices-2019-diabetes-ra... (4) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-diabetes-deaths-top-100000-second-straight-year-federal-panel-urges-2022-01-31/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-diabetes-death...

gamblor956 4y ago
I was specifically referring to CA taxpayers, not the entire country, as the CA insulin would only be available to CA residents initially.
- braingenious 4y ago
  Thanks for clarifying! My point sadly still stands when looking at just California. California has about ~2 million diabetics (1) and even when factoring in type 2, most of them (2) will require insulin at some point. The scale is still in the millions. (1) https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/2019%20Diabetes%20Burden%20Report%20(SCOTT_9JUNE2020).pdf?TSPD_101_R0=087ed344cfab2000773d0ff9b58e03b699258d74e0fe375c3e79e6c8d2424e57c436b0c0a1562a98080c247d7b14300013c891487f6e898f54613da76ff195606ea6da2811932a45c9dba2e0a89e4d2f8801bc8dce1112f47f427b4fca73d648 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Do... (2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25451189/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25451189/

gamblor956 4y ago

I was specifically referring to CA taxpayers, not the entire country, as the CA insulin would only be available to CA residents initially.

braingenious 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying! My point sadly still stands when looking at just California. California has about ~2 million diabetics (1) and even when factoring in type 2, most of them (2) will require insulin at some point. The scale is still in the millions. (1) https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/2019%20Diabetes%20Burden%20Report%20(SCOTT_9JUNE2020).pdf?TSPD_101_R0=087ed344cfab2000773d0ff9b58e03b699258d74e0fe375c3e79e6c8d2424e57c436b0c0a1562a98080c247d7b14300013c891487f6e898f54613da76ff195606ea6da2811932a45c9dba2e0a89e4d2f8801bc8dce1112f47f427b4fca73d648 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Do... (2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25451189/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25451189/