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Executive branch had to threaten Big Pharma to make this happen. FTC is similarly pursing pharma companies who improperly submitted patents to the FDA’s orange book to extract more profits.

> Thankfully now there seems to be some semblance of rationality?

Rationality? No. Regulation.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

It's not the same drug. You can get the same insulin produced 100 years ago (well you can't because it was extracted from animal pancreases) for cheap, but guess what? Nobody wants it.

These are newer, better versions of insulin.

Modern insulin analogs were not invented 100 years ago.

It isn’t the same drug as 100 years ago. The 100 year old insulin is long off patent and cheap.

No one is purifying insulin from ox pancreas anymore

Although it’s a shame for profit’s have taken over drug discovery this way