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@rbreich While I absolutely agree with the sentiment of this post and the comments about how it should be free as it is required for a large part of the population to literally continue to exist, I'm a bit confused by your definition of "unit", which format of you're talking about, and where you're getting your data. I'm owned by a , so I have the misfortune of paying out-of-pocked prices for insulin. We recently switched from to , cheaper and biosimilar.

MoonfirePDX

@rbreich There's other issues here that also drive up costs, such as expiry times and syringe costs. The expiry on insulin containers once opened is ridiculously short, 30 days. When well cared for and kept properly, these can last for as long as a year after opening. It has been suggested that the time was kept arbitrarily short so as to drive up sales, though I can also see where this might help avoid lawsuits over infections from poorly kept insulin.