Insulin is cheap to make, now, it is expensive because of commercial considerations like monopolization or investment. In reality any national system worth its salt could produce enough insulin at a very low cost for all diabetics in the world. But, this won't happen because of trade rules and so on.
Some people are trying to build the infrastructure for local/homebrew insulin production, but it's proving to be challenging. See this site for more: https://openinsulin.org/2023-recap/
Insulin is cheap to make, now, it is expensive because of commercial considerations like monopolization or investment. In reality any national system worth its salt could produce enough insulin at a very low cost for all diabetics in the world. But, this won't happen because of trade rules and so on.
Some people are trying to build the infrastructure for local/homebrew insulin production, but it's proving to be challenging. See this site for more: https://openinsulin.org/2023-recap/