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"Yes Officer, we were breaking the speed limit because, let's not kid ourselves, everybody breaks the speed limit."

Other people are bad so it's OK for you to be bad?

The basic moral standard is don't be an asshole, especially not when people are desperate. You're failing that.

If it's $7 to produce why there are no new companies that sell it for $100? They'd make quite some profit.

Intense regulatory barriers.

For a longer comment from a healthcare worker of note, see section 2 here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...

What do we understand from this?

Probably that if someone wants to make cheap lifesaving medicine they should have an easy way to do that instead of a Kafkaesque hellscape to navigate, but I'm not sure that insight generalizes beyond "make good things easy".

We understand that currently it costs a lot more than $7 to produce insulin.