The fact is that in a sizable portion of the world (and I am not talking about Cuba, China or some leftist south american government, I am talking about western

The fact is that in a sizable portion of the world (and I am not talking about Cuba, China or some leftist south american government, I am talking about western europe, and western european countries with a higher GDP per capita and higher HDI than the US, like Switzerland, Sweden and Norway) a) Insulin is cheaper, a fucking lot cheaper b) Its prices (along with a lot of other drugs) are regulated. I haven't yet heard from my friends in Switzerland, Norway or Belgium any sad story about people rationing their insulin supplies because it is mind bogling expensive, and shortages are also unheard of. Insulin is basically a solved problem. I don't care about an hypothetical techbro sad story of how he won't invest his billions to disrupt the insulin market because bad government doesn't allow it to sell untested products.