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This 12 months, the state of California put up $100 million to start manufacturing its personal insulin and promote it cheaply. How’s it going to work? (Is it going to work?)
The value of insulin might be the starkest instance of an out-of-control well being care system: Greater than 7 million Individuals want it day by day to outlive, and a few die as a result of they’ll’t afford it. However it’s a drugs that’s been round for 100 years, a drugs its discoverers didn’t wish to patent.
This episode of the “An Arm and a Leg” podcast seems to be at how California’s plan got here to be, and what may stand within the state’s manner.
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