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[listsfrin]

If it's $7 to produce why there are no new companies that sell it for $100? They'd make quite some profit.

[hawkice → listsfrin]

Intense regulatory barriers.

For a longer comment from a healthcare worker of note, see section 2 here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...

[listsfrin → hawkice]

What do we understand from this?

[hawkice → listsfrin]

Probably that if someone wants to make cheap lifesaving medicine they should have an easy way to do that instead of a Kafkaesque hellscape to navigate, but I'm not sure that insight generalizes beyond "make good things easy".

[listsfrin → hawkice]

We understand that currently it costs a lot more than $7 to produce insulin.