Woah...that really blew my mind

Avocados: No... No... Not yet... Not yet... No... NOW! NOW! EAT ME NOW! Too late.

It's not like people need insulin to survi... oh wait, they actually do!

in France, the costs of insulin are covered 100% by healthcare...

The graphic does not take into account that in most of these countries, the insulin actually is completely covered by healthcare, so these prices are more theoretical. The costs of medical treatment in the US are the proof that turning healthcare into a profit system does increase prices by the tenfold, thus disproving the old saying that the "free market" would level that out and competition would be advantageous.

Sick and greedy

Didn't Biden just pass a law to cap insulin prices? I thought he did. To go along with this before I went on Medicare the insurance I was on had a $3000 dollar deductible per year per person. I need Junuvia as I have borderline type 2 Diabetes. Before we met our goal for the deductible the cost of a month of Junuvia pills was $900. Out of pocket. People have died because they could not afford their insulin or their pills. There is no doubt.

Medication aside, in the UK you even get pumps or blood glucose monitoring implants (which upload to your medical team for ongoing review) for free. Plus education, dietetic advice, foot care, ophthalmology and psychology input... All. For. Free. Because we're trying to keep people alive, not let finance dictate their chances of survival.

WTELFH?! And the Far-Right wonder why people want to reforms on: Healthcare, Corporate Income Tax, Wealthy Income Tax, and Social Security Tax? Even more so when check out the price differences between the United States and the rest of the world for the Cure for Hepatitis C drug. Oh and the interview from the CEO of the company that created a drug that basically would almost cure this global endemic, borders on... sociopathic.

It's never been about actually helping people. We were born into a world that has everything we need already provided for us all. The money has become away to control those resources meant for all humans. Anything we have created on this planet has come from resources already here. There is plenty for us all yet we will starve or be denied vital resources if we don't have money. It's wrong and if u take a look around u. U can see everything we all need being produced in mass quantities. Cars, food, clothes, water, housing, all these things all people have to have to literally stay alive. Right there going to waste because some a*****e thinks money is more important than me eating and being taken care of during my stay here

Capitalism at its finest 🤬

America’s medical field is all about ripping people’s money away from them, life threatening situation or not.

America - land of dreams. Or nightmares?

And that's if you have insurance. I take 2 different insulins and if I had to pay retail, out of pocket costs would be over $1500 dollars every month. That's just for the actual drugs. Not counting the diabetic supplies like lancets, alcohol swabs and test strips. That's another $100 added

And we have to take it up the ol poop Shute without any lube, because of big Pharma....

So instead of Narcos running narcotics, they could smuggle insulin instead, still make a profit and be more socially acceptable too

This just makes me sick! There is NO reason (other that Big Pharma greed) that medicines should cost this much!! Personal experience as I'm a Type 1 diabetic and have had to once order insulin outside of the country b/c it cost too much without insurance. An F'n shame!

I would be less than $10 a unit if it wasnt for certain US govt regulations that created the high prices. Professor Robin Feldman well documented this, and showed the remove that little bit of regulation would have zero negative affects. But politicians dont want to confront regulatory issues

That's what happens when you make everything a business with investors who expect bigger returns every year. Yayyyyy capitalism!!! But people might Die! Shut up, Commie!

Is this one of those facts people think of when they say the US is the greatest country on Earth?

I have type 1 diabet i’m soooo glad to live in France where it is free thanks to Mr Ambroise Croizat who invented our healthcare i don’t understand why you have to pay we need insuline to live

I think it's provided free in New Zealand

American Pharm: trying to rob you blind one drug at a time.

Thankfully these prices are dropping. Insulin manufacturers are starting to cap monthly prescription prices. They are more reasonable but still fail to address those without insurance.

That's why you go to Mexico an buy it. And that's why your government give you fear pořn about Mexico

Those prices were about 30% too low from what I was able to get at COSTCO. Which has one of the better 'sweetheart deals' with the manufacturers. Generally in 2015 it was going for $127 per bottle.

Now $35.00 a vile for insulin from Lily.

In today's good news: the pharmaceutical company Lilly has cut its insulin price by 70%, and limits out-of-pocket expenses to $35 a month. They have a program which ensure that people without insurance can get the insulin that they need for $35 a month.

I know this isn't the point, but that price is quite literally *on* the charts. That chart.

Luckily, a bill was recently passed to limit insulin prices to $35!

Just disgusting

its infuriating, because there nothing we can do about it.

Like this is a f*****g surprise to anybody!

My insurance now covers my insulin pens at a low cost! Praise God!!

All prescription medication is free in Scotland - I can't imagine paying for it

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What a Shite country

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The unfortunate truth is that it's so affordable in other countries because the cost is subsidized by Americans. We are literally paying down the cost for everyone else in the world.

That’s just sad..

Oh man, I remember seeing this one from a geography book that was published in the 80s. Although the version I saw also had an isthmus.