[The price of insulin in the United States is many times what it is in other countries. Some see this as just bald profiteering; but, there are actually GOOD reasons why the price of insulin must be inflated:]
If it wasn’t expensive, everybody’d want to get diabetes.
Because it involves a lot of money, it forces people to take the topic of diabetes seriously, like I am doing, right now.
If our pharmaceuticals were affordable, we’d be no better than all the other industrialized nations.
It has to be expensive because, when the dollar fails, that is what we’ll be using as currency.
When the poor lose their extremities, it’s fun to see what they manage to come up with as a substitute. A coat hanger hook for a hand? Get outta here, you nut!
Having to pay a lot for insulin is a fitting punishment for bringing diabetes onto themselves with overeating, sedentary lifestyles and inheriting the disease.
Okay, for a second, lets assume that it wasn’t prohibitively expensive. Then, everyone could afford to treat their diabetes; but, it is prohibitively expensive so they can’t. Don’t you feel bad for getting everyone’s hopes up?
It gives you a response for whenever someone says, “I think that the free market can handle any problems with our health care system”
If it were cheap, people would be mixing it with gin at parties. If you think it would never happen, you’ve never had a gin and tonic…
Expensive insulin gives the uninsured a chance to explore other alternatives. Hypnosis, for example: You’re getting sleepy… sleeeeeeeepy… you are asleep. When I snap my fingers, you will be… a chicken… a chicken with diabetes and still not enough money to pay for your insulin…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
In Australia drug addicts got their syringes free but diabetics had to pay for them 😞
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There is so much wrong with that…
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🙁 I know
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high price of such lifestyle induced diseases acts as a great deterrent, its easier to prevent diabetes in US because most food items come with accurate indicators of constituents like carb, fat, sugar..
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Hello there – You’re talking about diet controlled diabetes. While I understand your confusion, there is another type of diabetes, which is Type 1. It has NOTHING to do with diet, weight, or anything. It is simply that your pancreas is defective, and doesn’t produce the right insulin levels. There is also gestational diabetes, which happens during pregnancy. Telling someone with Type 1 diabetes to just read the sugar on the package is rather akin to telling a blind person that it’s all in their mind.
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That’s exactly why I included: Having to pay a lot for insulin is a fitting punishment for bringing diabetes onto themselves with overeating, sedentary lifestyles and inheriting the disease…
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I agree it is cruel to deny insulin to the type 1 patients who cannot afford it. Maybe US or at the regulators don’t believe in the merits of keeping poor diabetics alive.
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An insulin G&T?
Clearly I’m drinking at the wrong bars…
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Have you tried a Bismopolitan?
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No.
I’ve lead a sheltered life…
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Vodka and Pepto-Bismol…
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I may have lost a foot to diabeetus but I’m still sexy y’all.
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Insulin as a next currency 💴 😂😂 too funny
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“A coat hanger hook for a hand? Get outta here, you nut!” Had me chuckling 🙂
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I thought that one might be too dark. It’s a tricky subject because there are a LOT of diabetic out there and some don’t understand sarcasm…
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You brought them in with the title – they just don’t know the humor of you 🙂
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