[s1artibartfast]

Re access:

You can also walk into any pharmacy or walmart in the US and by rapid acting insulin for about $20. no doctor, no insurance, and no Rx necessary (unlike France). Also, they had a massive supply of insulin. If they bothered, they could have bought some needles and looked up the conversion.

[Projectiboga]

Regular Human Insulin isn't "rapid acting" it isn't delayed released like NPH, which lasts almost 30 hours, but it isn't "rapid". Yes getting R & NPH can keep you alive but it creates a caloric and glycemic burden as those types of insulin stoke the stove without enough glucose to run it. Some remote place in Greece might only have the pharmacy open M-F business hours like 8-4, we living in built up urban or suburban USA might not realize that other countries may not have pharmacies open late or over the weekend like here.

As to $20, their website says

"ReliOn™ NovoLog® insulin Rapid-acting mealtime insulin, starting at $73." on a block without any link to go further. This is rapid-acting but it is buried on the site to access any clear information about is that the stuff that can be accessed without a script.