It's like the claim that pharma had tripled the price of a 100 year old drug(insulin) that the inventors had sold for only $1 and were now charging $450 a month for it.
Then you dig into the claims and you find out that, the original insulin is still available, it's new formulations that have the higher cost.
>Until now, the only so-called “Walmart insulin” you could get for a lower price (roughly $25 to $35 per vial) was the older, human versions of insulin — R (or Regular) insulin, N (which is Novolin, aka NPH insulin); and a 70/30 mix of the two other types. Those formulations have been around since the early 1980s, but they work much differently and are seen as much less reliable than the analog insulins that first started appearing in the later 1990s.
https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/walmart-relion-novol...
But the new stuff works better, is faster acting and allows a freer lifestyle.
I agree that there is a problem with the pharma industry but lying about the problem to try and get change is not going to help the cause.
It's like the claim that pharma had tripled the price of a 100 year old drug(insulin) that the inventors had sold for only $1 and were now charging $450 a month for it.
Then you dig into the claims and you find out that, the original insulin is still available, it's new formulations that have the higher cost.
>Until now, the only so-called “Walmart insulin” you could get for a lower price (roughly $25 to $35 per vial) was the older, human versions of insulin — R (or Regular) insulin, N (which is Novolin, aka NPH insulin); and a 70/30 mix of the two other types. Those formulations have been around since the early 1980s, but they work much differently and are seen as much less reliable than the analog insulins that first started appearing in the later 1990s. https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/walmart-relion-novol...
But the new stuff works better, is faster acting and allows a freer lifestyle.
I agree that there is a problem with the pharma industry but lying about the problem to try and get change is not going to help the cause.