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Insulin is actually pretty cheap to produce, people are just getting scalped by pharma corpos.
The issue is that it's cheap in materials but requires a colossal initial investment, so only a few companies can produce it
yeah i vaguely recalled as much but i am not smart so i couldn't think of anything better