‘An Arm and a Leg’: Checking Up on California’s DIY Insulin Project
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This year, the state of California put up $100 million to begin manufacturing its own insulin and sell it cheaply. (Is it going to work?)
The price of insulin could be the starkest example of an out-of-control health care system: More than 7 million Americans need it daily to survive, and some die because they can’t afford it. But it’s a medicine that’s been around for 100 years, a medicine its discoverers didn’t want to patent.
This episode of the “An Arm and a Leg” podcast looks at how California’s plan came to be, and what might stand in the state’s way.
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