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You are telling me a livesaving, chronic daily use and expensive drug with a market of 3 million people is all imported into the country that developed said drug in the first place?
I thought pharmaceuticals where one of THE key industries in the US
The only key industry(ies) in the US is slavery and oppression maybe.
I think there is some research done wrt pharmaceuticals but I think the bulk of manufacturing is done elsewhere.. India , Mexico, Turkey etc.
They make drugs with patents they can use to exploit sick people, insulin doesn't fit the bill
the way to make money on insulin is by making new formulations (different release rates etc) and by making fancy delivery devices (pens, pumps etc).
all of which are legitimately helpful and puts years on people's lives compared to plain old insulin and needles. it makes you wonder what other innovations might be possible if profitability wasn't the main motivator.
insulin was invented in canada, which probably also mostly imports it. the inventor famously sold the patent for $1 to a hospital or something so that it would be manufactured in a non-profit method for the benefit of humanity.
Canada does import its insulin...like all of it. The country it imports most of its insulin from? The US. Though it also imports a bunch from Europe (with Denmark being its fastest growing supplier). If the US stopped getting insulin from Denmark (assuming literally any of this screenshot is true, which I dunno), then Canada would likely have to massively increase imports from Denmark (which Denmark would be looking for new partners to take up that big market loss), and to be honest, then I bet the insulin from Denmark would go through Canada to the US anyway.
A nice, stable, efficient supply chain.
Just because the US designs and owns pharmaceuticals, doesn't mean they're actually the ones that manufacture them.