Re:Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands (2024)
by sgt101 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:05PM
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T1 needs insulin, some T2 are ok without it.
Insulin is cheap to make, now, it is expensive because of commercial considerations like monopolization or investment. In reality any national system worth its salt could produce enough insulin at a very low cost for all diabetics in the world. But, this won't happen because of trade rules and so on.
Some people are trying to build the infrastructure for local/homebrew insulin production, but it's proving to be challenging. See this site for more: https://openinsulin.org/2023-recap/
Insulin is cheap to make, now, it is expensive because of commercial considerations like monopolization or investment. In reality any national system worth its salt could produce enough insulin at a very low cost for all diabetics in the world. But, this won't happen because of trade rules and so on.
Some people are trying to build the infrastructure for local/homebrew insulin production, but it's proving to be challenging. See this site for more: https://openinsulin.org/2023-recap/