r/news • u/Double-Anteater228 • Jan 14 '22
Shkreli ordered to return $64M, is barred from drug industry
https://apnews.com/article/martin-shkreli-daraprim-profits-fb77aee9ed155f9a74204cfb13fc113054.9k Upvotes
r/news • u/Double-Anteater228 • Jan 14 '22
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u/thrilla-noise Jan 15 '22
Yeah, there are shit insulins that don’t work as well available cheap. That’s true. They aren’t equivalent to drugs like Humalog, and aren’t fast acting enough to be used in pumps.
There is zero reason for Humalog to cost what it does in the US other than greed.
Humalog is over 25 years old, but has consistently gone up in cost. Humalog specifically is around $20 OTC with no insurance in Canada, and an exactly identical product is several hundred dollars in the US.