4 of 10 · A drug from 1921

Insulin is a hundred years old. The list is still a ransom.

Medicare capped a month at $35. The US list for a month of NovoLog is still about $495.

Medicare month — the cap$35
vs
US 30-day list$495

Medicare IRA cap vs a sourced US 30-day list. People without Medicare still meet the list.

Banting sold the patent for a dollar. A century later a month of analog insulin still lists near $500 in the United States.

Seniors on Medicare now have a $35 cap. Everyone else is in the old country: list, deductible, rationing. The patient-voice tapes are people who stretched a vial and did not come back.

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