Insulin will be dramatically less expensive [in 2024] thanks to Utah's Civica RX

This is an interesting, nonprofit drug company that is trying to resolve pharmaceutical shortages and price problems, and where the founding hospital system is also a nonprofit with a very good, long-term reputation (and good personal experience--their intake agreement to get a blood sample drawn totaled 2 reasonable pages, where the next-nearest hospital came out at 11) and have generally done friendly good work for a long time as far as I can tell.

Wikipedia said (lightly shortened): "Civica Rx is a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer .... started by national philanthropies and leading US health systems. By [EO] 2019, over 45 health systems representing 1200 hospitals were members of Civica. Member ... pharmacists and clinicians help prioritize the medications Civica makes.... By the end of 2019 Civica had 18 medications (28 SKUs) in production, and plans to bring over 100 medications to market in five years through various manufacturing approaches such as partnerships, developing ANDAs, and building its own manufacturing capability. ... The first shipment of Civica private-label medication was vancomycin, delivered to Riverton Hospital, a part of Civica founder health system Intermountain Healthcare, in October 2019." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civica_Rx )

Other related links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932233 ("The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company" about which I don't know more.)

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/dr... (edit: thanks to pottertheotter in that HN link/discussion about Mark Cuban, just above)

https://civicarx.org/