There are about 8 million people in the United States who depend on insulin every day. Dylan: Eli Lilly has asked them to do is download a like digital savings card. You would show that at the pharmacy and you would get the same $35 prescription for your insulin, he says. "They're trying to make it a relatively light lift," writes Dylan.
Insulin was the poster child of overpriced life saving drugs, but a manufacturer finally capped the cost at $35. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how pharmaceutical companies for decades managed to overprice drugs Americans desperately needed.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Matt Collette, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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