Hmm, that’s a very well thought out response. Do you have a counter example of a medication or procedure that’s as important(life saving) as insulin yet cheap and affordable in the US?

You make it sound as if insulin is a outlier, but I can immediately think of another example with an even wider scope: childbirth in a hospital. Same theme, captive audience(if your pregnant you are going to give birth in the best case), same result, high costs.

I’m just saying that when a company has a captive audience(if you want a new organ you usually really want a new organ) they tend to squeeze them for what they are worth.

Also I find your explanation on insulin prices a bit ironic. It’s still really expensive, just because it’s covered by insurance doesn’t change that. It just means that the costs are spread over a lot of people. Your insurance premium is higher because other people need insulin. The ironic part is that that is exactly the argument used by people that are against universal healthcare, they have to pay for others.

You essentially have the worst of both worlds, you are paying for others and your medicine and treatments are overpriced.

What do you mean with processed foods in this context? Cheese or bread is a processed food too, as are all canned goods, fermented stuff like sauerkraut or kimchi and even canned vegetables.

As a laymen it’s incredible hard to understand what these scientific blokes even mean. All that scientific gibberish means nothing if the very start is so dumbed down you don’t even know what kind of foods they are talking about.

Following that logic insulin should be affordable…