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by mig39 1224 days ago
This is a failure of the free market. When companies get too big, and no longer compete, they should be regulated. The free market only works when there's a ... free ... market.
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Insulin is hyper regulated in the US. There is no free market for insulin.
Is it significantly cheaper in other jurisdictions? Like Canada?
That's what I've heard, though I don't any data to show.

In general all medications are the most expensive in the US, often by a lot. For two main reasons:

1. All other countries are to some extent "free riding" on the US market, and refusing to pay full price.

2. The FDA is doesn't approve a lot of things. So many cheap foreign medications are illegal to import. I heard that many forms of insulin are in this group.

You mean the same free market that produces most of the new, innovative drugs we have today?

The same free market entities that produced covid vaccines in record time?

That free market?