@John Bigbooty That makes sense. He is grossly overestimating the profit margin in selling illegal narcotics and grossly underestimating the profit margin in selling over the counter pharmaceutical drugs. 1 dollar vial of insulin in India vs 300 dollar vial in us...... Sorry but I don't care what drugs you are selling or where you are getting them but you are NOT making a 2-300X profit. Pharmaceutical industry is plain evil
Much relief after going through this stuff th-cam.com/users/postUgkxVYhghKWmrUgXARZ_ydZTvmmcrw5L0I5i Stress no doubt affects my blood sugar levels. Taking a walk usually helps bring them down. Eating sweets is not my favorite, but if i take a large portion of them, my blood sugar level rises high. I think it's the high concentration of the glucose flowing into the bloodstream all at once. This is a lesson worth taking note of. This is a great material to learn from.
@@lovely-ys1no nah, companies even interupted some a color system in europe which would make it possible to see in a blink of an eye if there is too much sugar or whatever in your food. Companies even put stuff in your food to make you eat more of it and its not even forbidden. The obesity problem has a reason
no they wont, if they do, CONSERVATIVES will be protesting nationwide, cause nobody HATES SLAVERY more than CONSERVATIVES...SLAVERY as in taking other people's stuff against their CONSENT or BIG government meddling in my business...
those guys are going to mysteriously commit suicide in a few weeks, like every other innovative US inventor that puts billions of dollars at risk of other greedy companies, MARK MY WORDS.
@@richard646 I am not comparing US with India. I am just saying that it is not as expensive to produce insulin as these multibillion companies are saying.
The insurance companies are scamming the American people. The same has started happening in India as well in 15-20 years the situation will be the similar.
@@malcolmjelani3588 up to $1000 a month to simple live, that IS NOT reasonable for working people. $15 dollars an hour (which is greater than starting income at many places) is 2,600 a month, that’s about half your salary, what about every other expense? for example 2600 - 1000 = 1600 just insulin 1600 - 1300 = 300 rent (obviously variable) 300 - 150 = 150 food. 150 dollars a month for utilities, gas, college, clothing, other medical expenses, retirement savings, support for family members, etc… does that seem reasonable to you?
@@malcolmjelani3588a 30 day supply of my type of insulin costs $1600, numbnuts. Maybe don’t gouge people’s medication costs to require an extra $20,000 a year?
Sadly in america there are tons of people don't want to pay extra tax just so other people can afford way cheaper healthcare. They want their money *only* for their own benefit thus willing to pay a ridiculous amount of money for insurance. I call it the "me" mentality.
@@Quinu12 There are so many sources of information it's impossible to provide a link. Google is your friend. Having said that, the pharma industry is not afraid of the UK. R&D pharma spend in the UK is the third largest in the world after the US and Japan. In Dollar terms per million of population the UK spends around 1% less than the US which shows up Trump's lie that America pays to develop drugs and everyone else takes advantage.
I myself am an diabetic type 1. I live in Australia and insulin costs $70 for 3 months worth. This is because the government pays for most of our diabetic needs. America needs to start thinking about the people
100%. And I have a glucose monitor which would normally cost $6000 a year but thanks to the aus government I get free till I’m 21. In America just like any other health care thing it would make you bankrupt
Yes. It just hit me...if he sold it to the university of Toronto then that means the ship begun to sink from that point. Because if he sold the patent to them then that means they allowed commercial ventures to use the formula and improve in it then add more patent restrictions to their formula....just a thought
great, so, start making your own insulin and stop complaining about "heartless" pharma or price gouging doctor deaths...what's stopping anybody from making their own insulin? the technique has been released to public with no patent...pffftt....
America is a fascist country...the criminal government works with the criminal corporations to rob Americans...and its not going to change..all of CONgress is blackmailed criminals...
@@cgmason7568 There's no wait time at the Pharmacy or the Doctor. Go ahead and lose another 270 dollar's of after tax income that you give them. You tired of winning yet !
I’ve gone into DKA twice when I was younger trying to ration insulin and it is probably the most painful thing I’ve experienced in my life. Your body is literally eating itself from the inside out. I hope to never have to feel that feeing again.
I went into DKA then I was diagnosed. It’s so painful to walk when you finally wake up.. my head was pounding. My blood sugar was 750 lol A1c also was above 13 when I was diagnosed
In Romania it is between 5$ to 8$ per pen on the free market ( this means 2$ per daily usage ) but 90% of the people are insured then it is free and if you are not insured you go to E.R. and it is free.
the free market gets people the highest price they're willing to pay, and for your life that's pretty high. I'm just thankful for the NHS who give my dad insulin for free.
As a type 1 diabetic who works freelance, this is an issue that really impacts me. I either have to buy an $800+ a month insurance plan with no deductible or pay close to $1,000 a month retail (obviously I choose the former). If insulin was less expensive, I could by a $200 plan with a high deductible and then just pay retail for insulin, which as long as it wasn't more than $600 a month, would be a better deal than now.
@@TechCarnivore1 It's an insulin that has been out of date for decades and results in significantly worse control of blood sugars. So if by "well enough" you mean that blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputation are acceptable, then yes it's alright.
US really needs to modify its drug and medical equipment distribution laws, current system seem to be designed to pay corporations one way or the other. In India, although medical infrastructure is not that great but as far as drugs are concerned govt allows generic manufacturers to produce a drug if patent holder is making it unaffordable for the masses.
I get my Lentus Pen from Pakistan, its less than Rs900 ($6-7). Flight for Pak is around $1k. I go there any way to see my parents. Am sure you can get cheeper in Mexico or South America. Once I got from Turkey as well & cost was not much higher than Pak.
@@caracrabtree715 Not really, if you can find some one to mail you a package with insulin. I suggest it's hidden with a toy so customs cant seize your parcel.
This video makes me proud of being Malaysian. Our insulin costs us, well, nothing. Healthcare are highly subsidised here. Mind you i've bumped onto some Americans calling us third world country. Lol
@Porky Minch Is Malaysia starting wars all over the world? No. Poverty well, how many homeless do they have? (Answer, very few to none). Economy's plenty good enough, any tech savvy person knows tons of tech stuff is made there, plus it's a nice tropical area with farming etc. Trading? See above.
@Porky Minch 1. War can only be abolished when all countries trust each other, which would be a major advantage for humanity. America isn't helping by having a high military budget and getting involved in practically everything. 2. How many people in America are willing to scam, trick, lie and cheat others for money? More than Malaysia I suppose. 3. Can't say much about this to be honest 4. Millions of companies globally are affected by the current trade war with China that Donald Trump started. Not a good move. Point is, there are pros and cons to each country. Malaysia has a rich culture and many traditions (compared to America) while America may be economically strong.
Water Otter: here's how you can do it- 1. Buy strain of microbe with gene for human insulin 2. Initiate fermentation in a glass vessel (or glass lined stainless steel ideally) under correct conditions: pH, substrate, aeration, time etc. (consult patents and papers) 3. Check for production using requisite assay 4. Optimise production using statistical methods like response surface methodology (software likely available free), use HPLC to estimate production volume (buy second hand) 5. Undertake downstream processing and purification 5. Once optimised, scale up production following requisite standards. Downstream processing likely requires preparatory HPLC. Buy second hand. Main problem: approvals and regulations.
I do work for a Pharma company but not for those mention on the video, however the cost of manufacturing in low. The issue is greed for Pharma companies and insurance companies
In Indiana at Walmart you can with a prescription get insulin called novolin R and N at 25 bucks a bottle. I am self pay and a type 1 and i had this problem for years. Finding this cheaper insulin literally saved my life so im putting this comment here in the hopes it helps somebody else.
Affordable health care means that healthcare and medicine should cost less up front, not just passing the markup onto insurance companies, the government, or some poor schmuck who's not covered by either.
@@asiannation90 so are you against all public options.... As most things private can be tied back to public support. Most technology and medicine is heavily subsidized / funded by government grants, as research often comes with very high overhead cost. Keep in mind insulin research typically started with government funding. Important medicines have historically been used to help society as a whole and not to directly produce profits. A healthier society is more productive and happy.
@@Fastlan3 if they did take money from govt and there are conditions in the contract specifying that they need to sell at certain price, then yeah, those companies are liable to it...but if they funded their own research, then no, they get to set whatever price they want...
@@Fastlan3 I'm not against any options, so long those options are *CONSENSUAL* ...if anybody signed a contract, read the contract, any signing parties *MUST* honor the contract if they already agreed to sign it...
alex carter exactly, some top of the top people replaced many of their organs when they got old, “donated” to them from third world countries because they will never make the waitlist in US due to their age
Greed, greed, greed! I'll never be convinced these 3 large insulin-producing companies have any other agenda. Open Source insulin seems a fantastic development.
I live in Mexico and I have travelled and bought insulin in England and also in Spain. I don't understand why insulin should cost hundreds of dollars per month in the USA, if it costs so much less in Mexico, and England, and Spain. Humulin "R" (regular) costs about $20 per 10 ml vial, (1000 units. ) And Humalog costs about $50 per 10 ml vial. I bought five vials of 3 ml Humalog in London for about the same price as in Mexico. And THERE IS generic insulin. It is made in Mexico. It is very good quality and costs about half as much as the brand name "Lantus".
@@jjstealth7 No critism of him intended. I just got the impression NBC thought this was revolutionary or ground breaking news. Also, I wanted others who saw my comment to able to check out the Vox piece as well.
It is weird that when my sister got juvenile diabetes in late 70s... I can’t say we ever really thought much about the cost of insulin.. I mean it was affordable enough that you never thought of it much... she passed in 98 so I guess she missed having to feeling stressed about the cost of insulin. That this is MORE expensive now ??? Well that is criminal and truthfully these companies should be charged with profiteering and murder... The USA once used to try to make the appearance of it having as a core belief that you don’t exploit a dire situation... The USA is f’ed beyond repair and remorse
This is what Breaking Bad could have been : a guy making illegal insulin to sell to diabetic people who can't pay for their treatment so that he can pay for his cancer treatment. You have got to love America
GO TO WALMART!!!!! if you can't afford your insulin, go to walmart. They DO sell a generic brand, both fast acting and slow acting, for $25 a vial with no prescription required. I'm a type 1 diabetic who has survived for over a decade with no insurance because of this. It kills me to see diabetics dying or going to Canada to get insulin when there is a cheap alternative literally miles from your home.
Diabetic people should just move to the UK, people always say we have higher taxes because of healthcare but statistically we have lower taxes than a lot of other developed countries, taxes are never an issue here. I'm lucky and unlucky I guess I'm type 1 living in the UK because I don't feel so tied down by my disability like so many others across the world.
Politicians don’t know who to blame but the price of the same drug in other countries is 10x less. Of course it has nothing to do with them being paid off to look the other way while we’re all price gouged. This is why Bernie should be president in 2020
randy jenkins Put whatever anti corrupt progressive you want in there. My personal view is Bernie would be extremely popular within the party and if Congress continued their BS heads would roll.
Take corporate and shadow donor money out of politics, and most of these issues will resolve themselves. Politicians can't do what is right for the people and the public good when they must rely on donations for their next campaign from the very industries they are supposed to protect their constituents against. It's a clear conflict of interest.
2:40 "Lawmakers are trying to figure out who's to blame" Well when you subsidize medicine it allows the companies to charge way more than they should. The government allows this to happen.
Mexico is a much better country than America...America is run by criminals at the top, in the military, the Judicial system..it's all fixed...they have one goal...steal every last penny from very last American...they all have Cayman accounts.
I buy Relion Novolin N and R at Walmart and Sams club for 24.88 per bottle and you do not need a prescription for these. They have not raised their price since I started buying it there several years ago. This saves me from paying 275. for the "latest and best" which is 11 times more per bottle. I have had very good control. Thank you Walmart Pharmacy for your service.
Makes me so angry that companies charge so much in some countries. Meds that are NEEDED to keep people alive should be free to everyone. I’m so glad the UK has a funded health care system. I cannot believe that people this day and age are dying as drugs which are available, and which are relatively well known are too costly.
Tips: 1. c peptide test to make sure do you really insulin resistant or your pancreas not produce in adequate amount. 2. No sugar in all form, 3. Less carbo, 4. Fasting can help, 5. Yes, low impact sport is helping much as long as you take it regularly.
A bottle of novolog costs 258 bucks a vial which for a type 1 is about a two week supply with a typical diet. each vial is 10 ml diabetics measure insulin in units so each ml is about 100 units so 2 dollars and 58 cents a unit, each dose is comprised of several units, say 7 unit average dose would cost about $18.58 You use 2 bottles a month if you are a typical diabetic which equals 516 bucks which is basically a rent payment on a house.
Someone better your moving humanity in a direction where there is no beauty or goodness void of what makes human beings achieve greatness.....is that really what you want the human civilization to amount to. I wish people would give it more thought.
Walk in to any Walmart, go to the pharmacy counter and you can buy insulin without a prescription for $30.00 (price as of 2022). Problem solved. I don't know if you can buy insulin injection needles over the counter.
As a Student who majoring in Pharmacy, I can tell you guys that US is the only place where drug company can charge as much as they like. Even though, most of the medicine are easy to make and cheap. Think about that for a second. Check out President candidate Andrew Yang who has solution for this problem.
The sad thing is insulin is just one thing t1s need to survive. We also minimally need needles for injection and test strips to see where our blood sugar is at (which retail at about $1 a strip in the us, when I need about 4 minimum a day when I’m not using even more expensive tech). Then there’s wonderful tech like CGMs and Insulin Pumps that are greatly life improving, but super expensive. This stuff adds up.
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If u can’t afford for your medication due to the high price an u die because of it your family should have the rights to sue the government for better regulated prices for the greater good of everyone else so why isn’t this happening ????
Patrick M Don’t ever buy anything from China! They have poisoned our babies with their poor formulas, they have killed our dogs by selling tainted dog treats and many, many other atrocities to the foods we get from China!
Insulin in the Philippines starts at Php1,000+ or around $20 ++dollars at registered pharmacies here. Edit: Lantus was the brand I am familiar with. Also the price is by one piece.
There is no country in the whole world that comes anywhere near being as corrupt and criminal as America...no one in our government cares about anything other than how much money they can steal for themselves and their cronies...just look at how all our politicians go to Washington DC and come out as multi billionaires ...they stole it all from we the people...
@@maurreese lol, so what is going on here??? lol, all the countries that have regulations in this case the prices are way lower, is a shame what is happening in america and is because of people that thiinks like you. come on use your brain, there are only 3 mayor players in big pharma, you need to regulate them, 90.000 uss for hep c pills, 2000 uss for hiv pills the same ones for the same company are 8 uss in canada,, the same company , I repeat the same company, come on the examples contradice what you are saying, the comnpanies pays the politicians to dont do lawys about it , there is no free market in tiiscase come on mam !!!!!!!! people are makinhg peniciline at home cause they cant pay for it, penicilin!!!!! are you kidding, this is a disaster
@@maurreese No, this is an oligopolistic structure. These 3 companies aren't even competiting with each other, they're comfortable with their lack of competition so they're raising prices. Like they said, there's a high barrier of entry to the insulin market so more competition is unlikely.
@@Fernando-iu3cs The cost is not the issue as you have these young men doing it. The companies are protected by using the system in a way that other companies can't access those patents. Pharma actually does this to keep cheaper alternatives off the market.
@Dra O Do you actually think that insulin is some new invention? And that it costs around $1 billion dollars to produce a product that was invented in 1922 and possibly even before, and is sold for very cheap in some nations? We are not talking the newest "cure for cancer". I suggest you do research before claiming that greed is relative, when it comes to a medication that's been around 97 years and if the other claims are true, 102 years. For some people is a question of life or death. Does that Dra, stand for doctora, in which case this is something you should already know. Hint, I am multilingual.
They definitely know that some people are not going to be able to afford it but i bet their financial budgets indicate that the loss of those customers is more than made up for by the increase in revenue fron those who can afford it. In other words, they're greedy
a HUGE reason why its in demand is due to the fact that the rate of obesity has increased thus more diabetic people. I blame the lack of nutritional education taught in our schools and the fact that they dont regulate addictive sugar being in every product in the super market.
Don’t blame it on nobody but yourself. Change ur eating habits extremely. U can reverse everything. But that’s too much work for ppl. We would rather take drugs
It’s simple add $5 to every weapon sold and 5 cents for every bullet as a tax to build and support a free insulin industry...I’m sure every gun lover and sportsperson could get behind such a laudable goal. (Excuse the excessive cynicism.)
These reports often neglect to mention that it's the patented insulin analogs that have increased in price. The human type R, and the associated longer lasting basal type N and mixed insulins have not increased as much in price nor should they, type N has been around since the 1930's. It takes more planning and care to use type R bolus and type N basal insulins but it can be done and is often what hospitals would use.
I already buy my inhaler and stomach nausea medicine from Canada and Mexico. If everyone just refused to buy in the states and go elsewhere prices would drop because the companies would lose money. But that's the problem. We cant just go somewhere else it's a literal life saving medication. Not everyone can go to Mexico or Canada. Also. People vets have insulin too for pets. My dads cat gets his own vial every month. Even small amount for a cat is upwards 300 and more a month. For a cat. My vet has sold Insulin to humans...and for risk of not getting then in trouble I won't say who. But that's becoming s thing too. Vets selling animal insulin to people
Maybe drugdealers should start smuggling cheap insulin instead of cocaine into the US.
Oh yeah, cos they all want to go from making thousands per hundred mil, to a few hundred at best.... Idiot
@@jamesaustralian9829 Your comment makes no sense, you are the idiot.
@John Bigbooty That makes sense. He is grossly overestimating the profit margin in selling illegal narcotics and grossly underestimating the profit margin in selling over the counter pharmaceutical drugs. 1 dollar vial of insulin in India vs 300 dollar vial in us...... Sorry but I don't care what drugs you are selling or where you are getting them but you are NOT making a 2-300X profit. Pharmaceutical industry is plain evil
@@jamesaustralian9829 Ya but insulin is legal so theirs less of a risk.
@@jamesaustralian9829 that's the black market they mentioned briefly.
Much relief after going through this stuff th-cam.com/users/postUgkxVYhghKWmrUgXARZ_ydZTvmmcrw5L0I5i Stress no doubt affects my blood sugar levels. Taking a walk usually helps bring them down. Eating sweets is not my favorite, but if i take a large portion of them, my blood sugar level rises high. I think it's the high concentration of the glucose flowing into the bloodstream all at once. This is a lesson worth taking note of. This is a great material to learn from.
Soon pharma lobbies will make laws that illegal to make your own drugs!.....mark my word!
hyou zan ren governments are on the citizen's side
@@lovely-ys1no nah, companies even interupted some a color system in europe which would make it possible to see in a blink of an eye if there is too much sugar or whatever in your food. Companies even put stuff in your food to make you eat more of it and its not even forbidden. The obesity problem has a reason
hyou zan ren it’s actually /make my word/
Not if you secure the bag for 2020
no they wont, if they do, CONSERVATIVES will be protesting nationwide, cause nobody HATES SLAVERY more than CONSERVATIVES...SLAVERY as in taking other people's stuff against their CONSENT or BIG government meddling in my business...
**body can’t produce insulin so just manufacture your own insulin**
*_Alchemy 100_*
those guys are going to mysteriously commit suicide in a few weeks, like every other innovative US inventor that puts billions of dollars at risk of other greedy companies, MARK MY WORDS.
Be mindful of the law of equivalent exchange
This guy is gonna Change The World. Let's Support him
@Daniel C its a meme from a video game. why you gotta be such a fuckfaced reject?
Lol
In India cost of insulin per vial is 1.4 US dollar
Every medicin or any medical thing in the us is 10x times the price of the rest in the world
@@richard646 I am not comparing US with India. I am just saying that it is not as expensive to produce insulin as these multibillion companies are saying.
@@richard646 lol. Where did you get this information from? Totally untrue.
The insurance companies are scamming the American people. The same has started happening in India as well in 15-20 years the situation will be the similar.
Wow, send me some.
My sister works in a hospital. She says the #1 most needless issues they have, is having to admit patients because they can't afford diabetes meds.
Maybe those ppl should get jobs
@@malcolmjelani3588 bingo Bango bongo........ your opinions wrongo.
@@malcolmjelani3588 Maybe short and long acting injectible insulin shouldn't cost almost as much as my 50 hour, 750 dollar check.
@@malcolmjelani3588 up to $1000 a month to simple live, that IS NOT reasonable for working people. $15 dollars an hour (which is greater than starting income at many places) is 2,600 a month, that’s about half your salary, what about every other expense? for example 2600 - 1000 = 1600 just insulin 1600 - 1300 = 300 rent (obviously variable) 300 - 150 = 150 food. 150 dollars a month for utilities, gas, college, clothing, other medical expenses, retirement savings, support for family members, etc… does that seem reasonable to you?
@@malcolmjelani3588a 30 day supply of my type of insulin costs $1600, numbnuts.
Maybe don’t gouge people’s medication costs to require an extra $20,000 a year?
In the UK all diabetics get all their insulin, pens and all prescription drugs free of charge.
Like it should be
Sadly in america there are tons of people don't want to pay extra tax just so other people can afford way cheaper healthcare. They want their money *only* for their own benefit thus willing to pay a ridiculous amount of money for insurance. I call it the "me" mentality.
@Dra O It's free at the point of need. Everyone pays taxes in line with their income and no one has to pay private insurance costs.
@@Quinu12 NHS NHS NHS and NHS
@@Quinu12 There are so many sources of information it's impossible to provide a link. Google is your friend. Having said that, the pharma industry is not afraid of the UK. R&D pharma spend in the UK is the third largest in the world after the US and Japan. In Dollar terms per million of population the UK spends around 1% less than the US which shows up Trump's lie that America pays to develop drugs and everyone else takes advantage.
I myself am an diabetic type 1. I live in Australia and insulin costs $70 for 3 months worth. This is because the government pays for most of our diabetic needs. America needs to start thinking about the people
America only thinks about exploiting the peoples wallets.......
100%. And I have a glucose monitor which would normally cost $6000 a year but thanks to the aus government I get free till I’m 21. In America just like any other health care thing it would make you bankrupt
Or you could just, you know, do the logical thing and remove the government from the equation completely.
"The government" meaning...... Everyone but yourself?
It was never about the people or for the people
kudos to that guy who sold the insulin patent for $1 tho
Yes. It just hit me...if he sold it to the university of Toronto then that means the ship begun to sink from that point. Because if he sold the patent to them then that means they allowed commercial ventures to use the formula and improve in it then add more patent restrictions to their formula....just a thought
@@mercynamikoye9084 I went there.. not surprised
He should be the example for everyone to follow
Should have just given up the patent so it was free to make by anyone
great, so, start making your own insulin and stop complaining about "heartless" pharma or price gouging doctor deaths...what's stopping anybody from making their own insulin? the technique has been released to public with no patent...pffftt....
As someone said in another video: When it comes to the US health-care, you're either rich or dead.
or just be healthy...everybody wants premium health care but dont want to pay...
Insulin costs less than 2$ in India per pen. insurance companies are scamming you. insulin is not expense to produce
oh, we know, but its not like we can assassinate govt officials until they lower insulin prices
@@grenshaw6836 no?
America is a fascist country...the criminal government works with the criminal corporations to rob Americans...and its not going to change..all of CONgress is blackmailed criminals...
Insulin is $30.00 in Canada In the states it's $300.00 just take a trip to Canada.
America your politicians are screwing you wake up.
Still expensive than India. My Dad has to take insulin and it only costs him under $3 per month for 2 vials. And thats without any insurance.
Nomogop Nomogop it’s cheap in Mexico too so they should go to whichever is closer
Easy there country with long wait time
@@cgmason7568 There's no wait time at the Pharmacy or the Doctor. Go ahead and lose another 270 dollar's of after tax income that you give them.
You tired of winning yet !
@@nomogopnomogop2875 i don't have a state income tax, and i have employer insurance like 70% of america
I’ve gone into DKA twice when I was younger trying to ration insulin and it is probably the most painful thing I’ve experienced in my life. Your body is literally eating itself from the inside out. I hope to never have to feel that feeing again.
I went into DKA then I was diagnosed. It’s so painful to walk when you finally wake up.. my head was pounding. My blood sugar was 750 lol A1c also was above 13 when I was diagnosed
New drug trade. Buy Canadian insulin at 10X less than US insulin smuggle it across and sell for big profit.
In Romania it is between 5$ to 8$ per pen on the free market ( this means 2$ per daily usage ) but 90% of the people are insured then it is free and if you are not insured you go to E.R. and it is free.
@@ioanpena And republican say that socialism and preventing free market. As result prevent that ever happening.
the free market gets people the highest price they're willing to pay, and for your life that's pretty high. I'm just thankful for the NHS who give my dad insulin for free.
@@americasingapore822 your stupidity is astounding
@@ryangoepfert9112 and your SLAVERY is astounding...ENSLAVE away, SOCIALISTS...
As a type 1 diabetic who works freelance, this is an issue that really impacts me. I either have to buy an $800+ a month insurance plan with no deductible or pay close to $1,000 a month retail (obviously I choose the former). If insulin was less expensive, I could by a $200 plan with a high deductible and then just pay retail for insulin, which as long as it wasn't more than $600 a month, would be a better deal than now.
Walmart has $24 for a vial. The insulin is alright, but hey it works well enough.
@@TechCarnivore1 It's an insulin that has been out of date for decades and results in significantly worse control of blood sugars. So if by "well enough" you mean that blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputation are acceptable, then yes it's alright.
@@MattSezer I am not blind and don't have kidney failure. It controls my blood sugars just fine.
@@TechCarnivore1 You're a type 1 diabetic using only N and/or R and you have good control? I highly doubt that's the case. What's your A1C?
@@MattSezer 6.9
US really needs to modify its drug and medical equipment distribution laws, current system seem to be designed to pay corporations one way or the other.
In India, although medical infrastructure is not that great but as far as drugs are concerned govt allows generic manufacturers to produce a drug if patent holder is making it unaffordable for the masses.
What a truly great country where people literally cannot afford to live.
then tell those illegals to stop breaking into USA...hurry up, save them and their families from the country known as USA...
@@tokyowarrior3222 What has this got to do with Insulin and the price of insulin raising?
Its big pharma, not the actual country
Greed and corruption value more than saving lives
I get my Lentus Pen from Pakistan, its less than Rs900 ($6-7). Flight for Pak is around $1k. I go there any way to see my parents. Am sure you can get cheeper in Mexico or South America. Once I got from Turkey as well & cost was not much higher than Pak.
That's great news for people that can afford to travel 👍
@@caracrabtree715 Not really, if you can find some one to mail you a package with insulin. I suggest it's hidden with a toy so customs cant seize your parcel.
Cameran Manner: smuggling 101?
@@cameranmanner4701 actually you can bring in up to a 3 month supply with a paper prescription just on you.
This video makes me proud of being Malaysian. Our insulin costs us, well, nothing. Healthcare are highly subsidised here.
Mind you i've bumped onto some Americans calling us third world country. Lol
@Porky Minch at least better then murica
@Porky Minch at least his people won't graduate with a crippling debt and that only if they survive a school shooting
@Porky Minch Is Malaysia starting wars all over the world? No.
Poverty well, how many homeless do they have? (Answer, very few to none).
Economy's plenty good enough, any tech savvy person knows tons of tech stuff is made there, plus it's a nice tropical area with farming etc.
Trading? See above.
@Porky Minch 1. War can only be abolished when all countries trust each other, which would be a major advantage for humanity. America isn't helping by having a high military budget and getting involved in practically everything.
2. How many people in America are willing to scam, trick, lie and cheat others for money? More than Malaysia I suppose.
3. Can't say much about this to be honest
4. Millions of companies globally are affected by the current trade war with China that Donald Trump started. Not a good move.
Point is, there are pros and cons to each country. Malaysia has a rich culture and many traditions (compared to America) while America may be economically strong.
@@Armz69 pity u only meet people like them..stay strong buddy
I work in a hospital lab. I would GLADLY learn how to make insulin, even though I'm Type 2.
Water Otter: here's how you can do it-
1. Buy strain of microbe with gene for human insulin
2. Initiate fermentation in a glass vessel (or glass lined stainless steel ideally) under correct conditions: pH, substrate, aeration, time etc. (consult patents and papers)
3. Check for production using requisite assay
4. Optimise production using statistical methods like response surface methodology (software likely available free), use HPLC to estimate production volume (buy second hand)
5. Undertake downstream processing and purification
5. Once optimised, scale up production following requisite standards. Downstream processing likely requires preparatory HPLC. Buy second hand.
Main problem: approvals and regulations.
@@r2.b2 Hot damn....
I do work for a Pharma company but not for those mention on the video, however the cost of manufacturing in low.
The issue is greed for Pharma companies and insurance companies
In Indiana at Walmart you can with a prescription get insulin called novolin R and N at 25 bucks a bottle. I am self pay and a type 1 and i had this problem for years. Finding this cheaper insulin literally saved my life so im putting this comment here in the hopes it helps somebody else.
Affordable health care means that healthcare and medicine should cost less up front, not just passing the markup onto insurance companies, the government, or some poor schmuck who's not covered by either.
Guys... 0:19 Why would you use a graph with no numbers? What is that? the price per syringe? per millilitre? per kilo?????
Americans, am I right ? Lol
@@kristenpaul7159 haha
It's per 10 ML vial. How much you use depends on a number of factors, but I use a little over 20 ML per month or 2 vials.
I think it's per vial, that's their unit
Because it’s the mainstream media. Precision and facts mean nothing, they just want to push agendas.
Pure greed is the reason for high cost.
keep my own stuff --> *GREEEEEEDDDD!!!*
take other people's stuff --> not greed
typical LIBERAL logic...
@@asiannation90 so are you against all public options.... As most things private can be tied back to public support. Most technology and medicine is heavily subsidized / funded by government grants, as research often comes with very high overhead cost.
Keep in mind insulin research typically started with government funding.
Important medicines have historically been used to help society as a whole and not to directly produce profits. A healthier society is more productive and happy.
@@Fastlan3 if they did take money from govt and there are conditions in the contract specifying that they need to sell at certain price, then yeah, those companies are liable to it...but if they funded their own research, then no, they get to set whatever price they want...
@@Fastlan3 I'm not against any options, so long those options are *CONSENSUAL* ...if anybody signed a contract, read the contract, any signing parties *MUST* honor the contract if they already agreed to sign it...
Thank god it costs like a few bucks here
They realize and do not care. Its not accidental. Its the greed of profit makers. Shot callers. End of story.
Imagine living in modern society where advanced medicines can drastically increase life expectancy, but dies due to not being able to afford them.
Top 10% in the US are living longer than ever, bottom 60% or so are plummeting in life expectancy.
alex carter exactly, some top of the top people replaced many of their organs when they got old, “donated” to them from third world countries because they will never make the waitlist in US due to their age
“Trying to figure out who to blame for the high price” LOL! WHO is profiting the most? Follow the money, that’s the guilty party. Not hard!
Greed, greed, greed! I'll never be convinced these 3 large insulin-producing companies have any other agenda. Open Source insulin seems a fantastic development.
As a new diabetic, this gives me lots of hope for the future
Are you on insulin?
I live in Mexico and I have travelled and bought insulin in England and also in Spain. I don't understand why insulin should cost hundreds of dollars per month in the USA, if it costs so much less in Mexico, and England, and Spain.
Humulin "R" (regular) costs about $20 per 10 ml vial, (1000 units. )
And Humalog costs about $50 per 10 ml vial.
I bought five vials of 3 ml Humalog in London for about the same price as in Mexico.
And THERE IS generic insulin. It is made in Mexico. It is very good quality and costs about half as much as the brand name "Lantus".
Hopefully he doesn’t get brought out by large pharmaceutical companies b/c the price is going to skyrocket
Papito Aman either that or they “take care of him”
@@Yggdrasilkuru that is not how that works
Vox talked about this open insulin project guy months ago
Because they are working on it? Rome wasn't built in a day.
@@jjstealth7 No critism of him intended. I just got the impression NBC thought this was revolutionary or ground breaking news. Also, I wanted others who saw my comment to able to check out the Vox piece as well.
@@RobinFlysHigh yeah, crazy, if it was easy alot more people would be doing it
Now this is a local drug enterprise I can support.
This is the type of projects that should be funded ASAP! No need to think it over.
You are wrong lady "insurance companies do realized how many people are paying for insulin, hence they will gouge you"
It is weird that when my sister got juvenile diabetes in late 70s... I can’t say we ever really thought much about the cost of insulin.. I mean it was affordable enough that you never thought of it much... she passed in 98 so I guess she missed having to feeling stressed about the cost of insulin.
That this is MORE expensive now ??? Well that is criminal and truthfully these companies should be charged with profiteering and murder...
The USA once used to try to make the appearance of it having as a core belief that you don’t exploit a dire situation...
The USA is f’ed beyond repair and remorse
This is what Breaking Bad could have been : a guy making illegal insulin to sell to diabetic people who can't pay for their treatment so that he can pay for his cancer treatment. You have got to love America
GO TO WALMART!!!!! if you can't afford your insulin, go to walmart. They DO sell a generic brand, both fast acting and slow acting, for $25 a vial with no prescription required. I'm a type 1 diabetic who has survived for over a decade with no insurance because of this. It kills me to see diabetics dying or going to Canada to get insulin when there is a cheap alternative literally miles from your home.
News for ya'll whether individuals or insurance companies are footing the bill this is an absolute scam.
Its ridiculous, we need socialized healthcare
That won't change anything because you're still at the mercy of the manufacturer. What you probably meant is full nationalization of the industry.
Diabetic people should just move to the UK, people always say we have higher taxes because of healthcare but statistically we have lower taxes than a lot of other developed countries, taxes are never an issue here. I'm lucky and unlucky I guess I'm type 1 living in the UK because I don't feel so tied down by my disability like so many others across the world.
And I complain about mine being $50 dollars here in Australia every 3 months. This humbled me.
At my pharmacy in Illinois it is $25 per vial of insulin
Politicians don’t know who to blame but the price of the same drug in other countries is 10x less. Of course it has nothing to do with them being paid off to look the other way while we’re all price gouged. This is why Bernie should be president in 2020
You mean Jill Stein right?
randy jenkins Put whatever anti corrupt progressive you want in there. My personal view is Bernie would be extremely popular within the party and if Congress continued their BS heads would roll.
Incredibly great work here. I love you all for it.
Hello how are you doing today
throw the CEO of the drug company in jail for a few years and let’s see what happens.
In Germany I never heard what's cost is insulin because in Germany everyone has medical insurance & that's why all kinds of medicines are free!
Take corporate and shadow donor money out of politics, and most of these issues will resolve themselves. Politicians can't do what is right for the people and the public good when they must rely on donations for their next campaign from the very industries they are supposed to protect their constituents against. It's a clear conflict of interest.
Trump fixed it, and now Biden reversed it. The cost has skyrocketed again. Pathetic!
2:40 "Lawmakers are trying to figure out who's to blame"
Well when you subsidize medicine it allows the companies to charge way more than they should. The government allows this to happen.
In Mexico, my dad get his insulin for free. Didn't know it was that bad in the U.S.
Mexico is a much better country than America...America is run by criminals at the top, in the military, the Judicial system..it's all fixed...they have one goal...steal every last penny from very last American...they all have Cayman accounts.
I buy Relion Novolin N and R at Walmart and Sams club for 24.88 per bottle and you do not need a prescription for these. They have not raised their price since I started buying it there several years ago. This saves me from paying 275. for the "latest and best" which is 11 times more per bottle. I have had very good control. Thank you Walmart Pharmacy for your service.
Dude, as long as there’s been adequate research and testing, let’s do this! The price to production is ridiculous!
Makes me so angry that companies charge so much in some countries. Meds that are NEEDED to keep people alive should be free to everyone. I’m so glad the UK has a funded health care system. I cannot believe that people this day and age are dying as drugs which are available, and which are relatively well known are too costly.
Don't be lame. It's not about helping people. It's about $.
Why is the patent not free to the public/ public access
In the state of Colorado New law. The insulin is capped at 100.00 no matter how much you need.
Sherry Halverson I need a gallon can I get it for 100$?
@@Yggdrasilkuru People are dying without insulin and you think they'll buy enough to get insulin poisoning.
Tips: 1. c peptide test to make sure do you really insulin resistant or your pancreas not produce in adequate amount. 2. No sugar in all form, 3. Less carbo, 4. Fasting can help, 5. Yes, low impact sport is helping much as long as you take it regularly.
i am so grateful for living in the uk where you don’t pay a penny for this kind of stuff,it’s a necessity not a option
Not any more. Postcode lottery. Over £90 per month for type- 1 insulin in Paisley, Scotland.
Indie-medical development. Interesting. Well we took the music industry from the corporations, why not this too?!
A bottle of novolog costs 258 bucks a vial which for a type 1 is about a two week supply with a typical diet. each vial is 10 ml diabetics measure insulin in units so each ml is about 100 units so 2 dollars and 58 cents a unit, each dose is comprised of several units, say 7 unit average dose would cost about $18.58 You use 2 bottles a month if you are a typical diabetic which equals 516 bucks which is basically a rent payment on a house.
Someone better your moving humanity in a direction where there is no beauty or goodness void of what makes human beings achieve greatness.....is that really what you want the human civilization to amount to. I wish people would give it more thought.
Walk in to any Walmart, go to the pharmacy counter and you can buy insulin without a prescription for $30.00 (price as of 2022). Problem solved. I don't know if you can buy insulin injection needles over the counter.
Well, move to a social secure state. Those prices can’t be real. Even if you buy insulin as retail a box only costs €25-35 in EU.
It costs something like a million dollars to be able to leave the US and get away with it, otherwise we'd be leaving in droves.
I'm proud of you guys.
Hello how are you doing today
Charging people for life saving drugs is evil.
Its called making money.
@@jamesaustralian9829 that's why government should do it
I would love to see how much the price jumps for each node of the supply chain
As a Student who majoring in Pharmacy, I can tell you guys that US is the only place where drug company can charge as much as they like. Even though, most of the medicine are easy to make and cheap. Think about that for a second. Check out President candidate Andrew Yang who has solution for this problem.
The sad thing is insulin is just one thing t1s need to survive. We also minimally need needles for injection and test strips to see where our blood sugar is at (which retail at about $1 a strip in the us, when I need about 4 minimum a day when I’m not using even more expensive tech). Then there’s wonderful tech like CGMs and Insulin Pumps that are greatly life improving, but super expensive. This stuff adds up.
Download the good prescription App it could help. But I hope this team in Oakland can get it done Right ON To Them!!! YEEEEE!!! ITS A BAY AREA THING!!!💯💯💯💯💯
If u can’t afford for your medication due to the high price an u die because of it your family should have the rights to sue the government for better regulated prices for the greater good of everyone else so why isn’t this happening ????
US it's just a corporation with few shareholders. Rest is irrelevant.
We need to protect people like this.
You can buy insulin from China for like 1/10th of the cost.
Patrick M Don’t ever buy anything from China! They have poisoned our babies with their poor formulas, they have killed our dogs by selling tainted dog treats and many, many other atrocities to the foods we get from China!
Insulin in the Philippines starts at Php1,000+ or around $20 ++dollars at registered pharmacies here.
Edit: Lantus was the brand I am familiar with. Also the price is by one piece.
There is no country in the whole world that comes anywhere near being as corrupt and criminal as America...no one in our government cares about anything other than how much money they can steal for themselves and their cronies...just look at how all our politicians go to Washington DC and come out as multi billionaires ...they stole it all from we the people...
??? Why you dont regulate those companies like any Country
Because regulations become a barrier from cheaper solutions through a free market like what these guys are doing.
@@maurreese lol, so what is going on here??? lol, all the countries that have regulations in this case the prices are way lower, is a shame what is happening in america and is because of people that thiinks like you. come on use your brain, there are only 3 mayor players in big pharma, you need to regulate them, 90.000 uss for hep c pills, 2000 uss for hiv pills the same ones for the same company are 8 uss in canada,, the same company , I repeat the same company, come on the examples contradice what you are saying, the comnpanies pays the politicians to dont do lawys about it , there is no free market in tiiscase come on mam !!!!!!!! people are makinhg peniciline at home cause they cant pay for it, penicilin!!!!! are you kidding, this is a disaster
@@maurreese No, this is an oligopolistic structure. These 3 companies aren't even competiting with each other, they're comfortable with their lack of competition so they're raising prices. Like they said, there's a high barrier of entry to the insulin market so more competition is unlikely.
@@Fernando-iu3cs The cost is not the issue as you have these young men doing it. The companies are protected by using the system in a way that other companies can't access those patents. Pharma actually does this to keep cheaper alternatives off the market.
@@Fernando-iu3cs I encourage you to read up on the amount of lobbying the big pharma industry invest in protecting their high prices.
Im so glad Australia has the MediCare
High price is complicated??? Is that a joke. It is so because of greed by the companies that make it. PERIOD.
@Dra O Do you actually think that insulin is some new invention? And that it costs around $1 billion dollars to produce a product that was invented in 1922 and possibly even before, and is sold for very cheap in some nations? We are not talking the newest "cure for cancer". I suggest you do research before claiming that greed is relative, when it comes to a medication that's been around 97 years and if the other claims are true, 102 years. For some people is a question of life or death. Does that Dra, stand for doctora, in which case this is something you should already know. Hint, I am multilingual.
Protect this Anthony at all cost
Where is the gates foundation?
Can’t they fund the open source work?
Ajay Reddy you can't trust the Gates foundation; the last news is that they are going to block out the sun that's how crazy they are.
They're too busy giving gibs to Sub-Saharan Africans.
Open source is the main competitor to Microsoft. Ever heard of Linux, Android and Open Office?
It's $4.50 for a vial in south korea...
Start your "Insulin Caravan" and go to Canada or Mexico...then possibly USA may feel shame...may be
Wait for the US to feel shame and you will wait a long time. Start the caravan then apply for asylum.
What about other meds? Drugs that worked have been outlawed in favor of insanely priced biologics.
They definitely know that some people are not going to be able to afford it but i bet their financial budgets indicate that the loss of those customers is more than made up for by the increase in revenue fron those who can afford it. In other words, they're greedy
Wasn't high until Obamacare before that we paid 100 for a Vail of humalog and 120 for lantus, after Obamacare price and insurance cost spiked.
Generic brand of Insulin is manufactured in India that cost PHP 1200 available in Philippines
3:15 "... So it can be made readily available to those who need it."
YET WHERE ARE WE NOW?!
a HUGE reason why its in demand is due to the fact that the rate of obesity has increased thus more diabetic people. I blame the lack of nutritional education taught in our schools and the fact that they dont regulate addictive sugar being in every product in the super market.
Great work
Don’t blame it on nobody but yourself. Change ur eating habits extremely. U can reverse everything. But that’s too much work for ppl. We would rather take drugs
*Even lawmakers are trying to figure out who to blame for the high price*
*Pharma company* : Check your bank account.
It’s simple add $5 to every weapon sold and 5 cents for every bullet as a tax to build and support a free insulin industry...I’m sure every gun lover and sportsperson could get behind such a laudable goal. (Excuse the excessive cynicism.)
These reports often neglect to mention that it's the patented insulin analogs that have increased in price. The human type R, and the associated longer lasting basal type N and mixed insulins have not increased as much in price nor should they, type N has been around since the 1930's. It takes more planning and care to use type R bolus and type N basal insulins but it can be done and is often what hospitals would use.
Glad i live in Sweden, insulin is subventioned by our taxes.
I already buy my inhaler and stomach nausea medicine from Canada and Mexico. If everyone just refused to buy in the states and go elsewhere prices would drop because the companies would lose money.
But that's the problem. We cant just go somewhere else it's a literal life saving medication. Not everyone can go to Mexico or Canada.
Also. People vets have insulin too for pets. My dads cat gets his own vial every month. Even small amount for a cat is upwards 300 and more a month.
For a cat. My vet has sold Insulin to humans...and for risk of not getting then in trouble I won't say who. But that's becoming s thing too. Vets selling animal insulin to people
I'm sure big pharma is furiously working with their little cash-whores in Congress to make it illegal to buy it outside.
Thailand Insulin is about $15 per bottle that can last for 1 week.
This is brilliant!!!!
Somebody send me a message when this project comes to fruition
In New Zealand the maximum you pay for insulin is $100 per year.
Insulin is free in every first world countries for diabetes. Except America where it is extremely expensive.