California is going to make and sell insulin

This is apparently old news but I just learned about it. California is investing $100 million to make its own insulin and sell it for $30 per vial to all residents of California, no insurance required.

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That is fascinating. Why stop at insulin, though, how about electric power generation? If the state is going to run something, there are lots of candidates.

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It sounds good and everything, but you can already get insulin for $30-$35 from Lilly and Novo, even without insurance.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap/index.html

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You don’t get votes for using existing programs. Isn’t the companies they would be dealing with also the same companies providing Wal-Mart with insulin?

Feels more like a $100M job’s project vs insulin project. That is fine, just be honest.

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