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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Insulin is actually pretty cheap to produce, people are just getting scalped by pharma corpos.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 1 points 24 minutes ago

The issue is that it's cheap in materials but requires a colossal initial investment, so only a few companies can produce it

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

yeah i vaguely recalled as much but i am not smart so i couldn't think of anything better