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Old 03-02-21, 03:30 PM   #13599
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@Moonlight Don't be so hard on him, in the US cheap food (also called junk food, how racist - indeed most chinese food with a lot of vegetables is much halthier than anything you can get at MacDonald's, but i digress) is one of the major money-making industries, because of.. diabetes!

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/1829395...n-so-expensive

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47491964

"In 1923, the discoverers of insulin sold its patent for $1, hoping the low price would keep the essential treatment available to everyone who needed it.
Now, retail prices in the US are around the $300 range for all insulins from the three major brands that control the market.
Even accounting for inflation, that's a price increase of over 1,000%."


10 percent of the population have this meanwhile, and since they have no real health service system (that would be communism!) everyone has to privately buy insuline, accounting to about 1300 dollars per month. Because in the US the price is about 10x as high than in the rest of the world. Excellent report at arte TV right now
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