As far as I know the bulk of insulin for human use is produced using bovine/swine cattle.
And my point still stands that preventative measures will have both a positive impact on peoples' health and on the demand for insulin.
Price gouging is definitely a problem that has to be addressed, but it's not the only one - yet seems to be what everyone focuses on first while glossing over the terrible lifestyles/habits of the population.
FYI: The majority of insulin these days is human insulin produced by GM bacteria or yeasts.
Just because there's more than one obvious problem doesn't mean that you can ignore the others.
More to the point, this isn't just about a single disease or drug, the same story applies to a lot of medication, including those that have zero lifestyle causes.
EpiPens are another example mentioned in the article. In the US if your child is born with a deadly allergy you have to carry around very expensive EpiPens that can cost hundreds of dollars due to co-pay and whatever. In Europe these will cost you directly less than $10 and even to the state will cost a lot less than it does to many US patients. One of the company's responses to hiking the price from $50 to $600 for profit reasons was to introduce a cheaper generic version, which as this article points out, is BS.
And my point still stands that preventative measures will have both a positive impact on peoples' health and on the demand for insulin.
Price gouging is definitely a problem that has to be addressed, but it's not the only one - yet seems to be what everyone focuses on first while glossing over the terrible lifestyles/habits of the population.