Why not allow patients to buy generic insulin from overseas (from India for example) ?
If I could just you know, ask a friend of mine to fly to India and bring a monthly supply of cheap India made generic of Humalog, that would be great, right?
and if insurance company kicks in a few bucks for me, that would drive down the cost of care for insurance company as well
The FDA heavily restricts import of foreign drugs. That's been the case since the Thalidomide incident in the 60s. Essentially drug manufacturing is a closed market, not a free one. Even if one gets rid of the incumbents like Pfeizer or AstroZenica, the same system just breeds the same perverse incentives.
If I could just you know, ask a friend of mine to fly to India and bring a monthly supply of cheap India made generic of Humalog, that would be great, right?
and if insurance company kicks in a few bucks for me, that would drive down the cost of care for insurance company as well