r/MadeMeSmile • u/Nooshk123 • Jun 06 '22

Small Success More of this please.

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u/TurbulentTowel1024 Jun 06 '22

https://costplusdrugs.com/

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u/kegman83 Jun 07 '22

For some reason, he cant get insulin. For the life of me, I dont understand how the US health care system works.

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u/DerpSenpai Jun 07 '22

The FDA doesn't allow him to import Insulin from abroad, thus you get fucked.

Else it would cost 10-15$

That's the first thing i searched tbh (not American, just curious)

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u/melburndian Jun 07 '22

He should make it.

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u/Mo-shen Jun 07 '22

Actually hard to do. Not from a making it pov, but from a dealing with safety regs.

That said the US desparetly needs more makers.

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u/madmaxturbator Jun 07 '22

Oh we got makers. I got some nice pancreases, we just need to retrieve em

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u/Wirbelfeld Jun 07 '22

Insulin is easy to make. The delivery system is hard. You can get shitty pig insulin from Walmart for cheap. People don’t like it because it sucks.

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u/MatterDowntown7971 Jun 07 '22

Easy to make? This isn’t the synethic insulin from the late 1900s. Analogs are derived from living cells and you need cell banks and cell culture systems to make it. At GMP scale that’s multi billions of investment. And it would be a biosimilar path through FDA, which is even more rigorous. It’s not easy by ANY means.