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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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