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If the old insulin works just as well, and is basically free, why is everyone paying through the nose for the newly patented stuff?
by pkulak 2y ago
If the old insulin works just as well, and is basically free, why is everyone paying through the nose for the newly patented stuff?
- smegger001 2y agobecause they dont make it anymore
- klooney 2y agoThey do, you can still buy it for cheap. It's not the same though, the new stuff works much faster.
- hadlock 2y ago"old insulin" pre-~1980 was made from grinding up animal (cow, pig) pancreas and extracting a tiny amount of pure insulin through a chemical extraction process. Wikipedia posts a ratio of 2 tons of animal matter to 8 oz of insulin. It was "easy" but didn't scale up very well.