What about the pharma companies that do not produce insulin (like GSK or TEVA). They have all the necessary expertise, ability, and equipment to manufacture insulin. Many people need insulin to survive. These companies could make insulin for relatively cheap and still be massively profitable, but they choose not to, and people suffer because many people who need insulin can't but it from them.
Of course it's corporate greed -- even if they sold insulin for relatively cheap and were massively profitable, they would only bother to produce it because of corporate greed.
No one is talking about the other companies. Here is a hot take: companies which are currently selling insulin are ripping people off. People are suffering as a result.
Whether or not other companies could conceivably produce insulin is irrelevant. The parent commenter and I are talking about the current producers’ shitty behavior. If someone falls out of a tree because I easily could have but chose not to grab them, that is wrong. Other people could have possibly helped and didn’t, but that doesn’t make my shitty behavior any less shitty.
I glad we can agree on the impact of corporate greed, though.
Of course it's corporate greed -- even if they sold insulin for relatively cheap and were massively profitable, they would only bother to produce it because of corporate greed.