Yeah I know. One of the big differences between prescription drugs and food, in terms of the industries, is that anyone can bake bread and therefore the only reason to buy it at the store is if the loaf at the store costs less time and energy than making it oneself.
Those are two nonequivalent industries with wildly different variables of influence. Did AI write this?
Yeah I know. One of the big differences between prescription drugs and food, in terms of the industries, is that anyone can bake bread and therefore the only reason to buy it at the store is if the loaf at the store costs less time and energy than making it oneself.
A better equivalency would be the insulin industry and a Diamond industry unrestricted by region.
Not really because people can die without food, and also without insulin. Nobody is choosing between diamonds and insulin.
Insulin is expensive because of a government-enforced monopoly. It’s a simple fact, no matter how motivated one is to ignore it.