[pmyteh]

It takes weeks to get comfortable using a different insulin to manage your blood sugars, and the results on older NPH insulin are going to be much worse than a more modern one. Doing that, and damaging your body, just to avoid avoidable bureaucracy is not reasonable. In fact, it's mildly tragic.

[ip26]

These threads always talk out both sides of their mouths. First people say, insulin was invented 100 years ago and the patent was gifted away to help patients, so it should be free. Then people say, it is stupid to use anything but the most modern formulations, because they are way better than the old ones.

I have no love for pharma price gouging, but if insulin was free, everybody would be stuck on the 1921 formulation.