California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price

Re:California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price by braingenious on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:16PM (#32314148)

If you’re referring to financial cost, it’s not at the expense of thousands, it’s at the expense of millions of diabetics in the US. (1) (2)

Unless of course you mean the expense of thousands of dead or permanently disabled diabetics, that is the correct ballpark! (3)(4)

(1) https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes

(2) https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2022/06/20/4-out-of-5...

(3) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/insulin-prices-2019-diabetes-ra...

(4) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-diabetes-death...

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Re:California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price by gamblor956 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:08PM (#32322972)

I was specifically referring to CA taxpayers, not the entire country, as the CA insulin would only be available to CA residents initially.

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Re:California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price by braingenious on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:41PM (#32324022)

Thanks for clarifying! My point sadly still stands when looking at just California.

California has about ~2 million diabetics (1) and even when factoring in type 2, most of them (2) will require insulin at some point. The scale is still in the millions.

(1) https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Do...

(2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25451189/

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