Insulin Prices Are Sharply Higher in the United States Than in Other Countries

> for staying in an hospital room or a simple RTG

I searched the web, but I can not find out what an RTG is. Can you please enlighten me?

Correction: ChatGPT told me it is an X-Ray.

The US wasn't always as dysfunctional or as corrupt of a banana republic of some billionaires, a nonexistent middle class, mostly poor people, and undercounted millions of homeless people living along freeway embankments and under highway overpasses. The problem is the blind faith in capitalist utopian magical thinking when certain functions are perverted when they are abandoned to unreasonable and under-regulated profit extraction. Prisons, firefighting, public safety, the military, healthcare, voting, and education should not be privatized or for-profit.

How about $8500 for 2 hrs in the ER to get 5 stitches after slicing my finger with a utility knife? (that also didn't include the later removal of said stitches).

OTC painkillers are similar (or somethimes MUCH cheaper depending on currency conversion at the time) to what I've seen in Europe

I found contact lens to be cheaper here than in Sweden

I don't think you're even really engaging with the article. It doesn't matter what healthcare model your country uses, what's being measured here is what the insulin companies are selling the insulin for. It's academic whether that money is coming via a insurance model like France, a state model like the UK, or a private model like the US. What's being measured is the money going to the people selling the insulin. What it highlights in this case is that somehow the US has ended up in a situation where their model creates incentives to drive prices up where clearly other countries don't.

You can argue the French system is bad in different ways but as a matter of fact from this research we can see they're not paying more for insulin than the US.