Before my son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I was generally aware of the overblown price of insulin but admittedly hadn't paid much attention to the details of this particular issue. Now that it's become personal, that has, of course, changed. According to the JDRF, insulin can cost upwards of $300 per vial and $1000 per month , which is bananas considering that a) people with Type 1 diabetes literally depend on insulin for their survival and b) back in 1923, the inventors of insulin sold their patent for just $1 because they believed everyone who needs it should have access to this lifesaving drug. Keep in mind that insulin is not optional when you have T1D, an autoimmune disease that as far as we know is unpreventable. Before insulin's invention, people diagnosed with T1D lived for only months, maybe a year at most. You can't lifehack your way out of this chronic illness and insulin is a must. Nowadays, drug companies make big bucks off insulin. Are there pr
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