[kstrauser]

Everything's unaffordable at first. It only gets better when enough people are using it that we get economies of scale.

[mrguyorama]

Which is why modern insulin is super cheap to the end user right?

[ksenzee]

It is, in countries that negotiate price. The US is doing the equivalent of walking into a market where everyone else is negotiating, and taking the vendor’s first sky-high offer.