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Yeah sure. I live in France, insulin here is "free" as in, you dont take money out of your pocket to pay it. Now hear me out. I get 50k salary before taxes and

• SilverBirch 3y ago
  I don't think you're even really engaging with the article. It doesn't matter what healthcare model your country uses, what's being measured here is what the insulin companies are selling the insulin for. It's academic whether that money is coming via a insurance model like France, a state model like the UK, or a private model like the US. What's being measured is the money going to the people selling the insulin. What it highlights in this case is that somehow the US has ended up in a situation where their model creates incentives to drive prices up where clearly other countries don't. You can argue the French system is bad in different ways but as a matter of fact from this research we can see they're not paying more for insulin than the US.
  • sneedfeedfrance 3y ago
    Price for a Lilly insulin box of 4 pens is 80€ in France. It is cheaper in the US. State funded social security, at least in France IS an incentive for pharma companies to hike up the price because there's no control authority whatsoever and the state's budget is literally treated as free money by private companies. You can also see this happening for construction projects, IT projects etc