Millions of people continue to struggle to pay for their insulin and having their long-term health put at risk. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images A decade ago, insulin became the poster child for America’s out-of-control drug prices. The 2017 death of Alec Smith, who was rationing his insulin before he died, and repeated price hikes for a 100-year-old medication (the patent for which was originally sold for $1 to a university to prevent it from being exploited commercially) sparked widespread outrage that a lifesaving medication could be unaffordable to the people who depend on it to surviv...
No, insulin still doesn’t cost $35
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