[fallingfrog]

For context: the patent on insulin was sold in 1923 to the university of Toronto for one dollar because the inventor felt it was unethical to use this invention to make egregious profits off people who had no alternative. This is 100 year old technology. It's not a manufacturing, regulatory, or technological issue. It's just monopoly pricing and greed.

[coredog64]

See comments above for more details on how the expensive insulin being discussed here isn’t the animal-derived insulin isolated 100 years ago