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OMG, you cant honestly beleive this can you? The US, out of its immense generosity is subsidizing canada? News flash, Insulin was discovered here (canada).. s

OMG, you cant honestly beleive this can you? The US, out of its immense generosity is subsidizing canada? News flash, Insulin was discovered here (canada).. so how exactly are you subsidizing a Canadian discovery? How about this for a far more realistic explanation: " When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it. " https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expe... Good god some of the comments you find here are just shocking.

ryan93 4y ago
The insulin people now use wasn’t developed there
bart_spoon 4y ago
It is tone deaf, I agree. But it should be noted that the insulin you are talking about is about $20 at Walmart these days, which given inflation going back to the 1920s, is incredibly cheap. The insulin that is incredibly expensive these days, that people drive to Canada for, is analogue insulin, which was developed in the last several decades by the pharmaceutical companies and is far more efficacious and easy to use. It’s a completely different product, which is often missed when these discussions of the donation of the original insulin patent is brought up.