>So why is insulin still so expensive, 90 years after it was first introduced? Because the insulin we're using now is a heck of a lot better than the insulin 90

>So why is insulin still so expensive, 90 years after it was first introduced? Because the insulin we're using now is a heck of a lot better than the insulin 90 years ago. You might as well ask why a Tesla is so expensive when the Model T was launched over a century ago. That analogy would make more sense if I needed a car to continue living. It feels somewhat akin to being okay with amputees having to live with peg-leg style prosthesis in the first-world due to being under-insured. Some people think that healthcare should be subsidized by societal infrastructures (whatever government you're a part of) due to the inherent benefits that a healthy society provides for itself and its' citizens, not including whatever morality certain folks subscribe to. In short : People tend to feel as if it is particularly low-brow for pharmaceutical companies to engage in the same type of strategies that you see normal capitalism-centric companies engage in, even if they are driven by that same normal capitalism, economies, and market.