The biohackers making insulin 98% cheaper | Just Might Work by Freethink

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  • @freethink
    @freethink  3 роки тому +4012

    What do you think of this approach to producing insulin?

    • @JOSEPHELBOSS
      @JOSEPHELBOSS 3 роки тому +208

      I think it's a great idea. We should use this method to reduce the price of other 💊💉.

    • @patrafferty3910
      @patrafferty3910 3 роки тому +185

      Anything that lowers the cost has my vote
      Hate to sound like a capitalist hating commie but food water meds and housing should be available to everyone not just those that can afford it
      There are plenty of other ways to make a buck.
      Type 1 diabetics are stuck tied to the need for insulin just to survive this country is powerful enough and rich enough to cover that need.
      As for type 2 we need better education about what causes insulin resistance carbs from whole food sources veggies,fruit,whole grains and legumes don't make you fat or cause insulin resistance.
      Insulin resistance is caused when your body tries to store fat in the muscle cells this won't let the insulin unlock the cell to let the glucose in, the body is not stupid it knows having to much glucose flow around in your blood is not healthy so it starts to store it in your liver thus fatty liver disease if you are a type 2 that is still making insulin but not able to utilize it detox your body from all animal based foods you will be amazed how fast your bp drops your cholesterol drops and your glucose suddenly comes under control
      It took me about three weeks to start feeling better and it is just getting better and better everyday
      I don't really count calories
      But I always feel full now.
      There is alot of info about the whole food plant based lifestyle on UA-cam
      We don't have to be sick anymore and support big pharma live in peace everyone
      Pat

    • @mthulisindzombane5623
      @mthulisindzombane5623 3 роки тому +116

      The problem has never been the technical know-how, its the companies that stand to lose that block such efforts. Honestly i would be surprised if this gets to a point where the recipe to make insulin is in the hands of the people.
      I have no doubt that Big Pharma will do everything in its power to destroy this project, no matter the cost.
      I can only pray that these guys manage to get past all the obstacles.

    • @edwardlewis1963
      @edwardlewis1963 3 роки тому +50

      @@patrafferty3910 it is an example of how the free market eventually moves to correct the capitalist excess ("greed")

    • @valiantstallion
      @valiantstallion 3 роки тому +29

      It's the beginning of the end for big pharma.

  • @The_Horizon
    @The_Horizon 3 роки тому +11457

    You guys better make this viral before these guys suddenly vanish and we hear nothing more about it...

    • @recordkeepingandinformatio8206
      @recordkeepingandinformatio8206 3 роки тому +753

      the American healthcare system is literally p2w

    • @JayPatel-ls6wn
      @JayPatel-ls6wn 3 роки тому +193

      Major news sources don’t cover it since they only exist as propaganda for politicians and big corporations.

    • @JayPatel-ls6wn
      @JayPatel-ls6wn 3 роки тому +110

      @Aquatic Ape Prove they sell insulin let alone at that price.

    • @thegelik4967
      @thegelik4967 3 роки тому +4

      @Recordkeeping and Information Security Agency arent higher taxes just the same for other countries?

    • @jonahv8545
      @jonahv8545 3 роки тому

      Wth I just went from one of your videos to this, preach!

  • @dickvanderhoof8646
    @dickvanderhoof8646 3 роки тому +3640

    Hope this guy made a public statement that he “doesn’t hate his life and does not plan to kill himself”.

    • @MrRafagigapr
      @MrRafagigapr 3 роки тому +310

      did not work with John McAfee , he even got a tatoo and the US governement still make him get suicided

    • @leafninjazyt6173
      @leafninjazyt6173 3 роки тому +158

      @@MrRafagigapr I hope his dead mans switch activated so he can expose corruption

    • @_inetuser
      @_inetuser 3 роки тому +37

      rip McAfee :(

    • @Vinzmannn
      @Vinzmannn 3 роки тому +26

      Worked so well with Jhon McAffee I tell you that.

    • @jimberry5318
      @jimberry5318 3 роки тому +3

      Isaac kappy

  • @imadogsass6717
    @imadogsass6717 3 роки тому +4890

    Insulin, a generic drug, should be dirt cheap in this day and age.

    • @TheCreeperTrack1
      @TheCreeperTrack1 3 роки тому +1160

      It is cheap...overseas. But the US government has made it illegal to import insulin from overseas. So blame the government for propping up an oligopoly.

    • @matthewmcintosh4925
      @matthewmcintosh4925 3 роки тому +348

      It is in every country with universal healthcare. And in some cases it's free. But then again most countries understand that a healthy population is a more productive population. So the government get higher tax revenue than they otherwise would by simply having more people working. But like all things in america all you have to do to make people act against their own best interests is to simply mention the dreaded C word communism. Then sit back and watch people shoot themselves in their own foot. Hospital free, ambulance free, prescription medication $6.50 up to $800 per annum then free for the rest or the year. Dr. Visit free. Corona vax free. This of course has the unintended effect of having a happy healthy population with ample leisure time and money to spend on other activities that generates more tax income and jobs. Really it isn't that hard when you stop repeating old chatch phrases and make an effort to improve everybody's life.

    • @anthonycekic4509
      @anthonycekic4509 3 роки тому +105

      @@TheCreeperTrack1 it's because we don't have universal healthcare like those other countries. What people don't realize is that the taxes don't just pay for the medicine and care, but also provides an infrastructure with which the governments can actually negotiate prices. Medicare does this and if we made medicare for all this wouldn't be an issue.

    • @Soumesh0
      @Soumesh0 3 роки тому +105

      It costs like 5 dollars here in India

    • @anthonycekic4509
      @anthonycekic4509 3 роки тому +101

      @@matthewmcintosh4925 the funny thing is if people actually read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", they'd realize he actually said that governments were supposed to provide support to citizens through taxes on the rich and businesses. He literally says that governments sound provide infrastructure and education to those of all ages. If the were alive today it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to think he'd support universal healthcare.

  • @qdude21
    @qdude21 3 роки тому +1192

    Just like how the US has laws against monopolies, there should also be laws against companies working together to essentially form a monopoly.

    • @aria5614
      @aria5614 3 роки тому +196

      They're called Anti-Trust laws they've been ignored for years now.

    • @zoc2
      @zoc2 3 роки тому +74

      And what you described is called an oligopoly

    • @junglejim9551
      @junglejim9551 3 роки тому +75

      the US already doesn't follow through on any laws against monopolies, or else amazon would be shut down.

    • @kushs7666
      @kushs7666 3 роки тому +8

      That is called an oligopoly

    • @bh8671
      @bh8671 3 роки тому

      Why? So they can be ignored. Anyway nothing will happen because if something was actually done 90% of the worlds large companies would go broke.

  • @nembokid8
    @nembokid8 3 роки тому +2460

    Crazy how here in Europe we don't (at least, I don't) even know the price of insuline. It's a vital and basic prescription... Nobody should have to starve to pay for insuline.

    • @PixelSheep
      @PixelSheep 3 роки тому +29

      so true

    • @eevyl1337
      @eevyl1337 3 роки тому +340

      That's because US health insurance system is mess.

    • @la7dfa
      @la7dfa 3 роки тому +133

      @@eevyl1337 They seem to think its cheaper to give money to the middlemen, and let at lot of companies markup everything. All in a failed belief that they save money by not having proper care for the poor and unemployed.

    • @shadmansudipto7287
      @shadmansudipto7287 3 роки тому +234

      @@eevyl1337 I'm from a poor south Asian country, yet a vial of insulin is like 5$

    • @alexg.1430
      @alexg.1430 3 роки тому +4

      i doub't there are any european with this sort of knowledge O.o and even if they are i'm sure it's cheap

  • @futt-bucker
    @futt-bucker 3 роки тому +1302

    I'm a type 1 diabetic and these people would be my absolute heros. Where do I donate?

    • @Blasikov
      @Blasikov 3 роки тому +87

      Open Insulin Foundation: openinsulin.org

    • @futt-bucker
      @futt-bucker 3 роки тому +13

      @William Snow a local place called OneWorld they are a community help center.

    • @memepros5433
      @memepros5433 3 роки тому +24

      Sorry, but as a Canadian….Americans expect everything for free or cheap while living in a state like Texas or the 7 other states that pay 0 taxes on income, so no, I do not feel sympathy.
      So yes if I were to ever get diabetes I WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PAYING FOR IT, sucks to be America.
      This dude is about to be criminally the next Jillian assuage and his head will be on a pike, this will never happen, because it’s not legal. FDA won’t approve this, a false narrative when the 3 billionaires get together a lobby against this

    • @froggy9620
      @froggy9620 3 роки тому +92

      @@memepros5433 your grammar is about 2nd grade level, sucks to be Canadian.

    • @ludoms100
      @ludoms100 3 роки тому +115

      @@memepros5433 I’m a type 1 diabetic from Canada, you’re an asshole, even if the us as a garbage healthcare system doesn’t mean diabetics are responsible for the highcost

  • @apothecurio
    @apothecurio 3 роки тому +2207

    The original guy literally sold his insulin patent for $1 because he believed it should be super cheap and affordable.

    • @HoldMeForever
      @HoldMeForever 3 роки тому +53

      He should've licenced it -__-

    • @DiminutiveJerry
      @DiminutiveJerry 3 роки тому +91

      @@HoldMeForever it was in 1900s lol

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 3 роки тому +275

      @@HoldMeForever he sold it. He wanted it to be easy for everyone to make and didn’t think that one person should control the supply, even someone benevolent.

    • @THG_thehumangod
      @THG_thehumangod 3 роки тому +27

      @@jonathanodude6660 Pretty dumb idea IMO. If a good person isn't selling it, noone should sell it.

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 3 роки тому +187

      @@THG_thehumangod well he thought it was immoral to profit off of life saving discoveries. He didn’t put his name on the patent and his collaborators sold it to a university. Idk what happened after that but presumably the university sold it to a drug company.

  • @mushmush4980
    @mushmush4980 3 роки тому +356

    I'm a little disgusted that I haven't seen this on major news sites yet

    • @AlexRod9646
      @AlexRod9646 3 роки тому +35

      Corporations own the news pal. We live in a plutocratic oligarchy in the US.

    • @Chevalier_knight
      @Chevalier_knight 3 роки тому +16

      You will when a short story runs " researchers kill them selfs".

    • @kevmccormick1767
      @kevmccormick1767 3 роки тому +7

      @@AlexRod9646 so glad someone can actually see the world for what it is a plutocracy.
      I'm so sick of people sàying what's going on just now is socialism then people say communism because they don't know the difference.

    • @pyromorph6540
      @pyromorph6540 3 роки тому

      Jesus, wake up ffs who do you think is running these things?

    • @170IQer
      @170IQer 3 роки тому +1

      You probably voted for biden because the news told you to 😂😂

  • @kashisama4465
    @kashisama4465 3 роки тому +9316

    Let’s hope their lab doesn’t just “burn down” accidentally one day they are doing great work

    • @youtubetv1588
      @youtubetv1588 3 роки тому +255

      Wouldn't have to do this if Trump was still president. He made insulin so much cheaper, but the new pedophile administration reversed it!

    • @amritsingh4251
      @amritsingh4251 3 роки тому +905

      @@youtubetv1588 Why are you bringing politics into this. Trump did nothing to reduce the price of insulin. You are trying to deceive people.

    • @kyotoeve
      @kyotoeve 3 роки тому +7

      No seriously.

    • @cyanidesparkles
      @cyanidesparkles 3 роки тому +593

      @@youtubetv1588 trump did nothing lol he just happened to be in office during a period of time that insulin wasnt this expensive. correlation does not equal causation.

    • @larissadueck2643
      @larissadueck2643 3 роки тому +2

      No kidding!

  • @birchberry9354
    @birchberry9354 3 роки тому +1760

    Insulin was designed and intended to be cheap from the beginning, its crazy that this is even a problem to begin with

    • @kunstro
      @kunstro 3 роки тому +211

      ​@Aquatic Ape Well, that is not the entire story: the stuff they're selling at walmart does not work for every case, because insulin medication is not all the same.. They sell the stuff invented nearly 40 years ago, medicine and pharmacy has improved significantly over this time, so yes, it is a relief!
      But it surely is not the answer, since every patient is different. However, you are right by saying they do generally sell cheaper insulin at walmart, which could help in many cases

    • @youtubetv1588
      @youtubetv1588 3 роки тому +57

      Wouldn't have to do this if Trump was still president. He made insulin so much cheaper, but the new pedophile administration reversed it!

    • @kunstro
      @kunstro 3 роки тому +168

      @@youtubetv1588 and the election was stolen I guess?

    • @yulfine1688
      @yulfine1688 3 роки тому +41

      @@kunstro it's been proven numerous times that it was..hell the other party even celebrates it. The current president cant even think on his own or do anything on his own without outside people controlling him.

    • @pugduck1917
      @pugduck1917 3 роки тому +121

      @@yulfine1688 sources for the proof? I haven't seen any

  • @WrylandSingleton
    @WrylandSingleton 3 роки тому +12383

    be careful that this guy doesn’t “kill himself” out of nowhere someday

    • @cb-gz1vl
      @cb-gz1vl 3 роки тому +754

      Epstien-ed and Macafee-ed

    • @Polyglot_English
      @Polyglot_English 3 роки тому +16

      Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙 🤙 🤙 🤙

    • @ghostmourn
      @ghostmourn 3 роки тому +403

      Yeah we should start a go fund me for security

    • @MariaChavez-ey5sr
      @MariaChavez-ey5sr 3 роки тому +387

      It’s actually quite a large team behind this, the video only shows 3 of the team members but we have volunteers from all over the world working on this.

    • @denelson83
      @denelson83 3 роки тому +92

      i.e., A hit squad hired by Big Pharma?

  • @hellothere9167
    @hellothere9167 3 роки тому +76

    The fact that they worked hard for 6 whole years and then place their whole research and data in online as a public open data is just so commendable

    • @KableTdi
      @KableTdi Рік тому +1

      Where is it? Source?

    • @hellothere9167
      @hellothere9167 Рік тому

      @@KableTdi there's a thing called doing it yourself and search it up

    • @hauz287
      @hauz287 Рік тому

      ​@@KableTdibig pharma paying you?

    • @KableTdi
      @KableTdi Рік тому

      lmao there is a thing called making statements from your ass just like you're doing. @@hellothere9167

  • @Animal-Reaction-Clips
    @Animal-Reaction-Clips 3 роки тому +617

    "It's Not Anger AnyMore , It's Determination"
    Sir You Have My Respect!

  • @Maestro_Charlie_Abraham
    @Maestro_Charlie_Abraham 3 роки тому +874

    I imagine that once the protocol is released and confirmed, every university level 100 chem and medtec class will be doing this as a lab assignment just to make damn sure every graduate level chemist ought to know how to make insulin for their friends and family

    • @user-he7sc3fg3r
      @user-he7sc3fg3r 3 роки тому +6

      No

    • @bethkrager6529
      @bethkrager6529 3 роки тому +29

      No they won't. They're too busy brainwashing good little commie terrorists to bother doing ANYTHING worthwhile. You want to fix this problem? Fire all politicians and insist on two year term limits . two years to throw your shot then get out of politics anywhere forever.

    • @Bacony_Cakes
      @Bacony_Cakes 3 роки тому +121

      @@bethkrager6529 dude it's not the fifties anymore let it go

    • @nahuelleandroarroyo
      @nahuelleandroarroyo 3 роки тому +4

      Doing insulin for your family is both stupid and dangerous

    • @abaguettewithacomputer415
      @abaguettewithacomputer415 3 роки тому +3

      @@nahuelleandroarroyo how

  • @markusfpv1349
    @markusfpv1349 3 роки тому +1101

    This is just showing how greedy and heartless those companies are.

    • @human721
      @human721 3 роки тому +4

      Heartless aquarious

    • @jeeveekaa5880
      @jeeveekaa5880 3 роки тому +77

      Created by a government who is allowing this….
      US wants capitalism to the max and this is one of the consequences

    • @leonhardeuler9073
      @leonhardeuler9073 3 роки тому +4

      Greedy companies are not even the beginning of the real problem.

    • @akassasin5768
      @akassasin5768 3 роки тому +54

      @@jeeveekaa5880 no this is the consequence of couruption. Capitalism lowers prices. The cognitive dissonance here is astonishing considering that this lab is essentially running off of pure capitalism. They are making a better profuct cheaper which is the pinical of free market principals.

    • @jeeveekaa5880
      @jeeveekaa5880 3 роки тому +7

      @@akassasin5768 that’s an interesting thought. Thank you.

  • @NoName-tl4by
    @NoName-tl4by 3 роки тому +504

    Hey, the comments saying these guys might "go missing" isn't a joke. This is real.

    • @andrewthomson
      @andrewthomson 3 роки тому +33

      We've got to start calling it getting "epsteined"

    • @deadfIag
      @deadfIag 3 роки тому +19

      @@andrewthomson no, we've got to stop joking about it.

    • @andrewthomson
      @andrewthomson 3 роки тому +3

      @@deadfIag why

    • @Red_Eyed
      @Red_Eyed 3 роки тому +30

      @@deadfIag Actually, it's a great idea. Epstein's "sucide" was an awakening for most. More people realized how shady and bullshit it was. Titling it as 'getting Epsteined' is just how new diseases are named after the person who contracted it.

    • @akyde1552
      @akyde1552 3 роки тому +2

      @@Red_Eyed I don't think a jet-setter millionaire pedophile being killed so he cant rat on other millionaire pedophiles is someone that needs their name honored. We can just say they were suicided it gets the point across fine lol.

  • @nayabghazali5455
    @nayabghazali5455 3 роки тому +554

    My father is diabetic and in Pakistan insulin vials pack cost him around 20 dollars and he can easily afford it without any issue. Even being in developing country we have no trouble affording insulin. Em shocked at American healthcare. 🤔

    • @ericpixley4594
      @ericpixley4594 3 роки тому +9

      Nobody pays list prices in the US.

    • @TheCreeperTrack1
      @TheCreeperTrack1 3 роки тому +72

      Yep, and resellers can’t even exploit this to provide cheap insulin to US diabetics. It is illegal to resell foreign insulin on US soil. The moment it becomes legal is the moment prices fall. Nobody will buy $100 commercial insulin when they can buy $25 Pakistani insulin online.

    • @TheRiiiight
      @TheRiiiight 3 роки тому +60

      @@ericpixley4594 Keep telling yourself that fairy tale.

    • @TheHighborn
      @TheHighborn 3 роки тому +36

      Health business* not healthcare

    • @13aaryan
      @13aaryan 3 роки тому +41

      @@TheCreeperTrack1 yep even in India it's really cheap. 2-6$/vial

  • @jarvis911
    @jarvis911 3 роки тому +365

    That poor kid that doesn't have insulin, that makes me mad as hell being a type 1 from UK the thought of paying $1000 is sickening

    • @marlonmontelhiggins8570
      @marlonmontelhiggins8570 3 роки тому +22

      It's kind of maddening to me, too, having a type 1 diabetic father, myself. I'm also from the UK, and I appreciate that insulin doesn't cost that much over here. Pricing something so vital so high should be illegal. Honestly.

    • @user-ej7we6ph3l
      @user-ej7we6ph3l 3 роки тому +6

      @@marlonmontelhiggins8570 free under the NHS, doesn’t cost anything for the patient! How it should be.

    • @marlonmontelhiggins8570
      @marlonmontelhiggins8570 3 роки тому

      @@user-ej7we6ph3l - It's free? Man, I should've known. And, I agree. That is the way that it should be.

    • @johnbeaker8721
      @johnbeaker8721 3 роки тому +9

      @@marlonmontelhiggins8570 It's not technically free cause we do pay into the NHS, but it's free at the point of use. Much better than in the US.

    • @thomasowens5824
      @thomasowens5824 3 роки тому +5

      America.... sickening.

  • @harrytuttle4069
    @harrytuttle4069 3 роки тому +1288

    I hope these guys have good lawyers and don't end up "committing suicide" while incarcerated...

    • @CostelloBrasco
      @CostelloBrasco 3 роки тому +2

      ua-cam.com/video/ZvgIP5L3Qq4/v-deo.html

    • @kapone2k
      @kapone2k 3 роки тому +73

      U.S "Land of freedom" .... as long as you don't get sick, scammed, robbed, shot, fired, sued or even worse..jailed.. (good luck finding a decent job after jail time..)
      And you can get jailed for being sued of anything.. Welcome to Murica!

    • @finnzweitname5905
      @finnzweitname5905 3 роки тому +2

      Whats the backstory of that i did not hear about this

    • @joshuafrank1246
      @joshuafrank1246 3 роки тому +2

      @@finnzweitname5905 I guess the lawyers did their job if you didn’t hear about it.

    • @thedesensitizedsympathizer5307
      @thedesensitizedsympathizer5307 3 роки тому +1

      Why is that in quotes?

  • @Cyberfoxxy
    @Cyberfoxxy 3 роки тому +73

    This is literally why OpenSource will save the world.

    • @170IQer
      @170IQer 3 роки тому +5

      Politicians like biden caused the insulin issue

    • @mrsmememania
      @mrsmememania 3 роки тому +2

      @@170IQer politicians like Trump caused the lack of open market, corruption and monopoly

    • @170IQer
      @170IQer 3 роки тому +6

      @@mrsmememania a 4 year politician huh?

    • @Cookedfrfrfr
      @Cookedfrfrfr 3 роки тому +1

      @@mrsmememania Trump still living rent free in your head?

    • @mrsmememania
      @mrsmememania 3 роки тому +2

      @@170IQer Sigh, Well Trump did say he loved the poorly educated people *like you*. Trump stole a lot money during his presidency. That money was supposed to go to people that need healthcare, ergo, insulin. I don’t have time to explain this in depth. Especially since there are many people out there who can explain it better than I will. If you want to help yourself, educate yourself.

  • @CameronfDrums
    @CameronfDrums 3 роки тому +1733

    if all them die in a surprised "boat accident" you know this is a rigged game

    • @Hebdomad7
      @Hebdomad7 3 роки тому +45

      Or mysteriously die of overdoes of insulin...

    • @heindrichpepler709
      @heindrichpepler709 3 роки тому +40

      We already know it's rigged

    • @Roderykz
      @Roderykz 3 роки тому +22

      We already knew this. Have we forgotten Epstein?

    • @cakeisyummy5755
      @cakeisyummy5755 3 роки тому +15

      Or by getting Shot in the Back 11 times.

    • @CameronfDrums
      @CameronfDrums 3 роки тому +2

      @@heindrichpepler709 but now you are gonna REALLY know

  • @superviro
    @superviro 3 роки тому +581

    Imagine being forced to pay $12k a year to stay alive.

    • @kelvin595
      @kelvin595 3 роки тому +73

      American healthcare in a Nutshell

    • @goaway4240
      @goaway4240 3 роки тому +35

      Damn I feel bad for Americans, here in the UK we get free healthcare and I'm damn grateful for that

    • @swaggadash9017
      @swaggadash9017 3 роки тому +20

      @@goaway4240 yeah, people joke about brits never wanting to go to hospital but I imagine it being free has something to do with that, like people don't want to use up time and resources someone else could get.

    • @Sebastian_Michaelis
      @Sebastian_Michaelis 3 роки тому +2

      @@swaggadash9017 The worst thing is actually getting an appointment. It can be MONTHS of waiting around just being sick or scared.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 3 роки тому +1

      @@kelvin595 difrentiate between healthcare and medialcare.
      Health care is heavily subsidesed in most of europe, for medicare, that is not quite as common, but becuase it is in some places, the medecin is ultra cheap.

  • @zion2794
    @zion2794 3 роки тому +381

    I feel so bad for that mother. I mean, I can't even imagine how that would feel

    • @joeswheat
      @joeswheat 3 роки тому +22

      Listening to her felt like getting kicked in the gut.

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 3 роки тому +1

      Kids die every day. She has no entitlement to someone elses product. 200 years ago and there wasnt even insulin, tough luck. Americans are so sensitive these days.

    • @Bluepaccao
      @Bluepaccao 3 роки тому +52

      It's not about entitlement though? Can't you seem what is missing here? Empathy.

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 3 роки тому +4

      @@Bluepaccao that $1000 could save 1000 kids in Africa for a day. Yet all she cares about is saving 1 little white kid.

    • @ahmedalshamsi1150
      @ahmedalshamsi1150 3 роки тому +48

      @@pluto8404 Well that little kid is her child, and the issue here is how expensive is insulin when it costs 1.5$ to make it so why charge 1000$?
      When your child gets Type 1 diabetes don't buy insulin because 1000$ could save 1000 kids in africa so your child loss equals saving 1000 child.

  • @dissolution9843
    @dissolution9843 3 роки тому +251

    Until now I was under the impression that printer ink was the most commercially overpriced product in the U.S. Turns out I was wrong.

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 3 роки тому +1

      Once upon a time, I think it was, but yes, ink has lost that distinction.

    • @potaterjim
      @potaterjim 3 роки тому +16

      You're still wrong: It's survival itself. America charges the most in the world for the right to simply exist

    • @JustScrapHD
      @JustScrapHD 3 роки тому +7

      @@potaterjim cringe

    • @Aecor
      @Aecor 3 роки тому +5

      @@JustScrapHD no it isn’t

    • @novembercharliesierradelta
      @novembercharliesierradelta 3 роки тому

      huh, seeing your comment made me remember that one video about printer ink
      Insulin is the third most expensive liquid sold, while printer ink is the 5th.

  • @darubhargav
    @darubhargav 3 роки тому +975

    This is a great project. I just donated 25$ and subscribed to their newsletter. We should support this great cause.

    • @wovasteengova
      @wovasteengova 3 роки тому +21

      Nice man!

    • @freethink
      @freethink  3 роки тому +90

      That's awesome! If folks are interested, you can find them at openinsulin.org/

    • @rtnjo6936
      @rtnjo6936 3 роки тому +20

      @@freethink Could not find this link in the video description, please put it there too! Great channel!

    • @clocktower1164
      @clocktower1164 3 роки тому +2

      @@freethink Thank you for bringing this out to the world !

    • @helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316
      @helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 3 роки тому +7

      I shall donate $100

  • @TheShapingSickness
    @TheShapingSickness 3 роки тому +497

    "WE CAN AND WE MUST"
    That was powerful!

    • @youtubetv1588
      @youtubetv1588 3 роки тому +2

      Wouldn't have to do this if Trump was still president. He made insulin so much cheaper, but the new pedophile administration reversed it!

    • @RanchKings
      @RanchKings 3 роки тому

      @@youtubetv1588 you right

    • @skankhunt3624
      @skankhunt3624 3 роки тому +2

      @@youtubetv1588 everything you've stated is patently untrue. Do your own research and stop believing everything the fox says.

    • @iiraiyen
      @iiraiyen 3 роки тому +1

      @@youtubetv1588 Theyre all pedophiles. There is no winning in America

    • @youtubetv1588
      @youtubetv1588 3 роки тому

      @@iiraiyen www.newsmax.com/politics/Trump-Drug-Prices/2020/11/20/id/998066/

  • @joei8236
    @joei8236 3 роки тому +1056

    where citizens of the most richest country and the “land of the free” can’t afford basic medical care is just sad...

    • @pittraider1221
      @pittraider1221 3 роки тому +80

      It's the fault of our corrupt government allowing these pharmaceutical corporations to have copyrights on fucking medicine that is the real problem. The solution is NOT to enable the corporations by paying them with tax dollars.
      Edit: I probably should have stated this earlier but didn't because I knew alot of leftists would disregard my point if I said it but yes, there should be medicinal copyrights in order to incentivize their creation but my honest opinion is they shouldn't be capable of lasting longer than 1-5 years, maybe 28 years if we wanna go by how copyright used to work in the U.S. and certainly medicinal copyright should not be capable of lasting longer than the creator of said medicine.

    • @yulfine1688
      @yulfine1688 3 роки тому +13

      @@koolaidman4869 ironically the same people who are illegals or the lower income and families who believe the lies and don't want to push to go past where they're at. Or in actuality for the majority for the last election that was indeed a huge mess of many things. Anyways it's the citizens and the young people who are dumber than two stones.

    • @qmr0n
      @qmr0n 3 роки тому +14

      Capitalism

    • @farhanyousaf5616
      @farhanyousaf5616 3 роки тому +19

      If you can't pay for health or afford it, not sure if that is really freedom. It's pure slavery.

    • @yulfine1688
      @yulfine1688 3 роки тому +3

      @@farhanyousaf5616 Healthcare is free for most people already. It's just garbage coverages. Healthcare cannot be denied if you actually need it. Healthcare plans aren't free. They cover numerous things usually expensive surgeries and scans that most places not only have long waiting lists on but also have limited access and limited machines available. Not to say we don't have waiting lists for things such as kidneys which are so common there's not enough kidney donations for people who need them. Hearts can also be hard to get if needed. Among other things. However just about everything else is better. Nor do we have politicians making the decisions for us on what we can and cannot do. The choice is 100% ours to make with information and guidance from doctors and nurses and other physicians. Also Healthcare plans isn't a right. It's also a choice. You can choose Healthcare plans life insurance pet insurance disability workers compensation etc. It's not forced upon you. You know how many illegals and other people just wall into the ER for anything because they can't deny you? Any idea how much that costs and they don't pay ever. There's people that have been in the ER for months that's extremely costly. Money doesn't grow on trees. Also America supports the rest of the world's medical science and research and military support and research for the most part. Not even the UK whose second to us is even close to that. Because we are the backbone for many major events other countries get to benefit at a "discounted" price you could say. If half those countries had to support 100% of their own military and medical research etc they'd collapse real quick. It's too costly for any country actually. Let alone pay and supply that for every other country.

  • @thefrisianviking28
    @thefrisianviking28 3 роки тому +49

    My son has diabetes too. Here in the Netherlands it's free of charge. Seeing this makes me cry. I feel for all of you in the U.S.

    • @GattToDaChoppa
      @GattToDaChoppa 3 роки тому +2

      Finally! a european who is a decent person and not an arrogant prick!

    • @asianwarrior8901
      @asianwarrior8901 3 роки тому

      well, it's not really free...you're forcing everybody else to pay for your son...so, essentially, you're robbing your fellow citizens...

    • @thefrisianviking28
      @thefrisianviking28 3 роки тому +4

      @@asianwarrior8901 Hey there buddy. Be carefull when you write stuff on this big youtube thingy. You might twist your fingers or your brains. Alright sport?

    • @asianwarrior8901
      @asianwarrior8901 3 роки тому +1

      @@thefrisianviking28 I'm fully armed here in US...come at me...sport...another example of slaver socialist...got really really offended when exposed as a robber...robbing his fellow citizens...pfffttt...

    • @thefrisianviking28
      @thefrisianviking28 3 роки тому +7

      @@asianwarrior8901 well, we are different yes, but calling me a robber is a bit too much. My son would have died without our healthcare, so you are really crossing a line here. Care to try again and this time be civil about it? I will report you if resort to the same rude behaviour again.

  • @ganerdeneuurtsaih9953
    @ganerdeneuurtsaih9953 3 роки тому +2170

    Insulin companies: Let’s make price higher since they can’t live without it...

    • @anthonymuccillo
      @anthonymuccillo 3 роки тому +22

      Also gas companies hahaha

    • @Rundtryps
      @Rundtryps 3 роки тому +94

      @@anthonymuccillo Gas isn't a necessity to live for most people though.

    • @carlosreid51
      @carlosreid51 3 роки тому +8

      Thank these people for cheap insulin

    • @TheOskar300
      @TheOskar300 3 роки тому +29

      capitalism in a nutshell

    • @1234lorddaniel
      @1234lorddaniel 3 роки тому +59

      @@TheOskar300 Its not really problem with capitalism. In free competition environment there will be dozens small companies to compete with big pharma or ppl would be able to import insulin from other countries. US is in strange state where laws block these ways of breaking this triopol(?). If you want to blame someone/something look at senate and congress.

  • @Machixo
    @Machixo 3 роки тому +532

    “Due to the pressure of trying to reverse engineer it the whole lab was found with a gun shot in there head in a joint suicide” - *NYTIMES* (This post was paid for by 3 random pharmaceutical companies)

    • @TheRanguna
      @TheRanguna 3 роки тому +18

      *each person had multiple gun shots in their heads.

    • @deavddryger7300
      @deavddryger7300 3 роки тому +30

      @@TheRanguna *in the back of their heads

    • @CostelloBrasco
      @CostelloBrasco 3 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/ZvgIP5L3Qq4/v-deo.html

    • @RoxanneGutierrez010
      @RoxanneGutierrez010 3 роки тому +12

      @@CostelloBrasco stop spamming people. Makes me feel like your music is crap

    • @sababaratashvili8629
      @sababaratashvili8629 3 роки тому

      Patents in farma should be very short, not renewable and the prices in medicine should be monitored and controlled.

  • @jackylee8901
    @jackylee8901 3 роки тому +262

    "We can, we must". I cried when I heard these words. Thank you. You will succeed.

    • @changedname_8970
      @changedname_8970 3 роки тому

      🙏

    • @wasteoftimecomplete4366
      @wasteoftimecomplete4366 3 роки тому +1

      If possible donate to their cause.

    • @Diaryofaninja
      @Diaryofaninja 3 роки тому +1

      These guys are criminals. In the long run this will hurt the economy. You know nothing kid.

    • @rulta
      @rulta 3 роки тому +1

      @@Diaryofaninja big Pharma are the criminals

    • @greycircularity
      @greycircularity 3 роки тому +3

      @@Diaryofaninja people are dying and you're concerned with the economy. Nice.

  • @flamthrowr_
    @flamthrowr_ 3 роки тому +10

    I have full faith in them. There was a woman named Eva Saxl who made her own insulin when she couldn’t get any to her. She lived in Shanghai during WWII, and when Japan tightened the restrictions there, she had no access to insulin. So she learned to make her own. She saved thousands of lives in the Shanghai ghetto through her insulin. If a woman with almost no resources in the 40s could do it, these people definitely can.

  • @malohn2068
    @malohn2068 3 роки тому +3987

    America:free market n stuff!
    Volunteers charge 6 dollar for insulin.
    America:that's illegal >:(

    • @Mr.Dodo-
      @Mr.Dodo- 3 роки тому +274

      Its not a free market! Its partly a free market. The govetnmrnts dirty hands are in everything.

    • @cps22001
      @cps22001 3 роки тому +122

      This is severe cognitive dissonance. Insulin is expensive likely due to reasons other than free-market tendencies -- i.e. patent laws, severe restrictions on production, etc. Moreover, the team that is creating this solution is running off of free-market ideals.

    • @jorgegutierrez8588
      @jorgegutierrez8588 3 роки тому +324

      @@Mr.Dodo- the fact that stuff like this isn't government regulated is the reason why this stuff is so expensive. Pharmacudical companies can charge whatever they want just because they patent their recipes and methods and don't share it.
      These guys are heroes for trying to reverse engineer it and open source the recipe.

    • @ritenger87
      @ritenger87 3 роки тому +110

      It's 100% the free markets fault. Don't let the shills fool you.

    • @ritenger87
      @ritenger87 3 роки тому +186

      @@cps22001 it's that expensive for one reason: profit.

  • @Pokeccc
    @Pokeccc 3 роки тому +1377

    When I move to US and get sick I'm going to fly back to my country and get that free healthcare

    • @Secretfiles999
      @Secretfiles999 3 роки тому +39

      Have fun waiting in a long line because you’re not prioritized

    • @digital_oni
      @digital_oni 3 роки тому +344

      @@Secretfiles999 what are you on about

    • @roachy5525
      @roachy5525 3 роки тому +395

      @@Secretfiles999 have fun being left in debt after 1 visit to the hospital 🥰

    • @naadilee1316
      @naadilee1316 3 роки тому +306

      @@Secretfiles999 um thats not a thing in most countries lol. We got free healthcare and fast quality service so try again.

    • @IYUSG
      @IYUSG 3 роки тому +226

      @@Secretfiles999 I don't know where this stereotype comes from, it's just not true. And even if it was true wouldn't you rather wait in line knowing you're going to be treated soon without worry of debt rather than getting "immediate" care and have huge debt over your head if you can't afford it or having you or your families life cut short or suffer huge amounts of pain if they can't afford treatment. I don't know why so many Americans can't see how fucked their healthcare system really is, you're deluded

  • @thijskroft785
    @thijskroft785 3 роки тому +504

    Honestly, this is insane. Here in the Netherlands, it is part of the basic insurance that everyone has. The government negotiated a price for the product. A flask is about 15 euros if you werent insured. The fact that volunteers have to pick this up is nuts. It is not their job. Just et a form of universal healthcare. It fixes all these kinds of problems.

    • @lafireteamplx3400
      @lafireteamplx3400 3 роки тому +39

      No, we are talking about the US here... you dare insult their beautiful capitalist system?

    • @corvus1238
      @corvus1238 3 роки тому +89

      @@lafireteamplx3400 You are partly right, America is almost the greatest country in history and indeed could be, if it treated its citizens in a civilised manner by giving them a decent living wage, trained the police to be a service, not a force, solved the massive homelessness problem, implemented M4A so that thousands of Americans weren’t dying for want of simple health care, implemented The Green New Deal so that the USA wasn’t one of the largest contributors to the climate crisis, got money out of politics by not allowing interested parties to bribe politicians, regulated gun ownership so children don’t have to be in fear of their lives when they go to school, didn’t lock children and petty criminals in prison for life, stopped state sanctioned murder of the mentally ill, stopped vilifying ethnic, religious and non-religious minorities, didn’t go out of its way to make it difficult for some people to vote, didn’t teach that violence and retribution solve problems and stopped fighting endless, unnecessary wars. Oh, and stopped using the ridiculous imperial measurement system and changed to metric like the other 96% of the planet. Yep, the USA is almost up there with the best countries in the world.

    • @DynamicArtsHD
      @DynamicArtsHD 3 роки тому +10

      @@corvus1238 boom. Roasted

    • @menagerie7799
      @menagerie7799 3 роки тому +32

      And for some God damn reason when I talk about how great socialism is, Americans call me a "nazi communist sheep"

    • @gilblax8764
      @gilblax8764 3 роки тому +2

      The government pay using your money. It's good, but, it could have some billionaire contract between the government and the laboratory.

  • @yellowice0
    @yellowice0 3 роки тому +48

    5:38 “Your anger at the abusive market fill you with determination”

  • @deanlynch3759
    @deanlynch3759 3 роки тому +576

    People like this drive me in my desire to become a chemist to help people.

    • @the0master200
      @the0master200 3 роки тому +16

      You are naive if you think they will just let you.

    • @Babumoshai..
      @Babumoshai.. 3 роки тому +16

      Trust me organic chemistry will drive you nuts

    • @the0master200
      @the0master200 3 роки тому +1

      @@Babumoshai.. true.

    • @nicks6196
      @nicks6196 3 роки тому +6

      Just start implementing a social medical system like most of Europe has. That 12african countries were able to successfully implement 😂 america is social-politically seen, not even close to Neanderthals yet.

    • @billjamal4764
      @billjamal4764 3 роки тому +3

      @@nicks6196 you know nothing about the situation.

  • @callmebird8798
    @callmebird8798 3 роки тому +772

    *"If you depend on something to survive, you should beable to control it."*

    • @behrooz6675
      @behrooz6675 3 роки тому +6

      Lmao no way Bird, I remember you from rust buddies, sorry seeing it go and I hope you are doing well :)

    • @muresandani
      @muresandani 3 роки тому +7

      What if you depend on someone else keeping you alive, should that entitle you to control that person to force them to keep you alive?

    • @tytotech9498
      @tytotech9498 3 роки тому +15

      @@muresandani well no, they're saying you shouldn't have to rely on someone else to survive (Unless you're a child)

    • @callmebird8798
      @callmebird8798 3 роки тому +2

      @@tytotech9498 understandable

    • @callmebird8798
      @callmebird8798 3 роки тому +2

      @@behrooz6675 hey bro, yeah I had to step away from the service to focus on my life for a little bit. Me and loki might try again but in a different way, focusing on content more than the server.

  • @WatchOnYT
    @WatchOnYT 3 роки тому +472

    We need more open-source in the world. Everywhere.
    My own advice to them, being an open-source programmer, is: Upload your findings somewhere and update it all the time, while letting other people from around the world help you by starting research from the point you just got to. That could make the research way quicker and way more effective.

    • @OjoRojo40
      @OjoRojo40 3 роки тому +29

      We live in times of plenty, specially in the digital realm, but we create false scarcity just for the benefits of a few. Peace.

    • @rujotheone
      @rujotheone 3 роки тому +19

      Agreed. They should be updating regularly and the work will move faster because of commits from others. Software has already provided the template

    • @WatchOnYT
      @WatchOnYT 3 роки тому +2

      @@rujotheone exactly.

    • @screatch2794
      @screatch2794 3 роки тому +10

      To be honest no other country in the world has your problem of meds costing a few thousand bucks

    • @joshwizardguy7662
      @joshwizardguy7662 3 роки тому

      @@OjoRojo40 Scarcity exists regardless of how you think the world works.

  • @boydino6
    @boydino6 3 роки тому +32

    My fear is that this will "dissapear"
    I seriously hope it doesnt

  • @aayush_789
    @aayush_789 3 роки тому +485

    Generic insulin is free in India. Even private ones are around $5.

    • @lylelaney8270
      @lylelaney8270 3 роки тому +177

      That's the same pretty much everywhere other than USA

    • @tommyfournier3138
      @tommyfournier3138 3 роки тому +66

      Free in Canada, but how much are our governments paying the pharma for it? It's not free in reality

    • @aayush_789
      @aayush_789 3 роки тому +101

      @@tommyfournier3138 not much. In India government get generic insulin manufactured for their hospitals. Not more than few dollars per shot.

    • @lylelaney8270
      @lylelaney8270 3 роки тому +52

      A vial of insulin cost less than 4 US dollars to produce. In the US, it's sold around 100 dollars which is 6 times (more or less) higher than in Canada if I'm not mistaken.

    • @dlcdaniel6308
      @dlcdaniel6308 3 роки тому +21

      @@lylelaney8270 in the US insulin is sold for $333.99/vial for Novolog without insurance (the most commonly prescribed, as far as I know)

  • @anshulruhil
    @anshulruhil 3 роки тому +451

    It's about 4$/month in India. Get someone to "courier" it for you.

    • @Doschia
      @Doschia 3 роки тому +22

      I have 2 types of different Insulin pens. Costs me 10€ for 10 pens.
      One is enough for 1-2 weeks.

    • @MultiTiago07
      @MultiTiago07 3 роки тому +49

      It's free in most Western European countries

    • @benjamingavrilis71
      @benjamingavrilis71 3 роки тому +16

      It's pretty cheap in Australia too. It's not that it's cheap in these countries it still costs $300+, but the government subsidizes most of the cost.

    • @anshulruhil
      @anshulruhil 3 роки тому +147

      Cocaine is for amateurs, seems like smuggling insulin into United States will be far more profitable and also without the moral downside of drugs. #insulinescobar

    • @-shakir5152
      @-shakir5152 3 роки тому +10

      In Malaysia you pay rm1/usd0.24 for a hospital visit while insulin is free. Theres even a problem where insulin is wasted because people dont store it properly etc.

  • @empress9554
    @empress9554 3 роки тому +82

    Imagine insulin goes to like 10-25 dollars, that would be amazing.

    • @Uryendel
      @Uryendel 3 роки тому +24

      It does, just don't buy it in the US

    • @empress9554
      @empress9554 3 роки тому

      @@Uryendel I don’t need it

    • @empress9554
      @empress9554 3 роки тому +1

      @@Uryendel just sayin

    • @thearchives1094
      @thearchives1094 3 роки тому +6

      @@Uryendel that's the benefit of a nationalised healthcare system

    • @Serenitie3
      @Serenitie3 3 роки тому

      @@Uryendel where then? Canada? If so a website? Details please

  • @BigBadLoneWolf
    @BigBadLoneWolf 3 роки тому +159

    here in UK, lf you need medication that you would die without, the cost is free, even for drugs you pay for, the cost is around 12usd per item. with the cost of Insulin in US, you could fly to europe, see a doctor and get a prescription for your insulin, pay for the insulin, hotels , and still cost less than in US

    • @HelloThere-jr6gd
      @HelloThere-jr6gd 3 роки тому +4

      Nothing is free. The UK health care system is nothing to be desired. Try getting treatment for cancer there. You die before you even see a doctor for it. They can alsondeny you treatment to save costs.

    • @donalnaylor5030
      @donalnaylor5030 3 роки тому +39

      @@HelloThere-jr6gd But they do get people insulin cheaply. Also doesn't the current system in the US "alsondeny you treatment to save costs" like insulin for instance.

    • @iumasz6088
      @iumasz6088 3 роки тому +28

      Technically its not free, you pay it indirectly via taxes, but the UK still doesn't have the problem with the shady business practices that make insulin so expensive in the US

    • @g.p.3844
      @g.p.3844 3 роки тому +48

      @@HelloThere-jr6gd Broke my arm on a holiday in Wales (had a pretty bad 20m fall) I was airlifted to hospital, the doctor happened to notice a melanome, I was in and out of the hospital within 5 hours, full body skin screen for other melanomes, xrays of my hands, arms, head, back, legs treatment of the broken arm, painkillers for the next days. My biggest cost were the 15 pound for a snack and parking. In the us the little plastic cup in which the meds are given costs more. Start living in a real first world country, in which people come first and profits for Billionairs come second. Of course Medication isn´t free, but in a free healthcare system there won´t be a 2000% profit margin on it.

    • @alexstam2433
      @alexstam2433 3 роки тому +27

      @@HelloThere-jr6gd the reason why us has a short waiting list is because majority of people in us can't afford it.
      Stay mad public healthcare is superior in every way and has uplifted the standard of living of every country that has adopted it.

  • @OiBlake
    @OiBlake 3 роки тому +454

    I’ll be deeply sorry when they suddenly decide to disappear without a trace

    • @rujotheone
      @rujotheone 3 роки тому +3

      When they would be suicided

    • @sickman5236
      @sickman5236 3 роки тому

      Can you explain? I searched on Google and couldn't find anything about biohackers disappearing. Its a real question lol, no sarcasm.

    • @OiBlake
      @OiBlake 3 роки тому +20

      @@sickman5236 because when good people do the right thing against the system and against Big Pharma and profits they always seem to disappear, die in an accident or commit suicide conveniently losing all their work in the process

    • @purecoco9310
      @purecoco9310 3 роки тому +3

      @@sickman5236 Theyre getting murdered, if they do dissapear

    • @moisty254
      @moisty254 3 роки тому +1

      @@sickman5236 suicided: murder-cover up

  • @bshizzlefilms5316
    @bshizzlefilms5316 3 роки тому +1831

    You can get insulin for free in Canada depending on your situation.

    • @marcd6897
      @marcd6897 3 роки тому +287

      @Nick Arjoma BS

    • @kiraPh1234k
      @kiraPh1234k 3 роки тому +55

      @Enzo Ian R. Evangelista In my state we actually ensure children, pregnant women and caretakers or children who also have low income to get healthcare provided by our tax money, with severely reduced cost on medication and treatment.
      And we're a "red state", which usually people associate with lower welfare, but we in fact have better welfare than most parts of the country.

    • @RoxanneGutierrez010
      @RoxanneGutierrez010 3 роки тому +21

      @@marcd6897 no it's not. My mom gets hers covered by our tax dollars

    • @CausingChaos.
      @CausingChaos. 3 роки тому +5

      Also Walmart insulin costs 25 dollars(I don’t think it’s all that great though)

    • @peksn
      @peksn 3 роки тому +10

      @@kiraPh1234k so republicans also want more welfare? Thn wtf is going on

  • @babytalks
    @babytalks 3 роки тому +158

    The rich gets richer and the poor gets weaker literally .

  • @nothingbutchappy
    @nothingbutchappy 3 роки тому +188

    This literally seems this is an industry that NEEDS distruptors

    • @pec1739
      @pec1739 3 роки тому +2

      its too late, these big pharma are now too powerful for the government to take action, they owned the government now

    • @nothingbutchappy
      @nothingbutchappy 3 роки тому +7

      @@pec1739 not in my country.. Or Europe.. It's just the USA...

    • @jjbarajas5341
      @jjbarajas5341 3 роки тому +2

      Elon musk could do it I bet. He has the clout

    • @J6yson
      @J6yson 3 роки тому

      Google search “Optimizing Empathetic AI to Cure Deadly Diseases - Intel”.
      Enzolytics and Intel are working together to create monoclonal that will cure HIV and many other infectious diseases

    • @Peglegkickboxer
      @Peglegkickboxer 3 роки тому +3

      No we need to either fix or abolish patent law. It's the government that goes after your if you find a cheaper way to produce or sell a patented medication...

  • @X6DNU
    @X6DNU 3 роки тому +101

    Love seeing humans working together to help each-other and sticking it to other big money hungry companies

    • @garbagetrash2938
      @garbagetrash2938 3 роки тому

      Yeah kinda like in a socialist commune. Yet it still gets demonized in USA.

    • @phillipanselmo8540
      @phillipanselmo8540 3 роки тому +1

      @@garbagetrash2938 technically what they're doing is bringing up competition

    • @zoisantonopoulos7999
      @zoisantonopoulos7999 3 роки тому +1

      @@garbagetrash2938 this isn't a socialist commune. These people don't work for free.

    • @stuart6478
      @stuart6478 3 роки тому

      instead of changing their diet or lifestyles

  • @johannes-7710
    @johannes-7710 2 роки тому +5

    "it's not anger anymore, it's determination" what a quote

  • @adityashaw3198
    @adityashaw3198 3 роки тому +227

    When judges are elected by the political parties and politicians, how can they be non partisan??

    • @CostelloBrasco
      @CostelloBrasco 3 роки тому +2

      ua-cam.com/video/ZvgIP5L3Qq4/v-deo.html

    • @dr4876
      @dr4876 3 роки тому +6

      Welcome to the USA

    • @CrispyChicken38
      @CrispyChicken38 3 роки тому +1

      Used to be we had checks in place to prevent one party from making sweeping decisions on judges. The democrats slowly eroded away at that, just like the protections for the Senate, and the vice presidency. In the name of "democracy" they lowered several legislative actions to a simple majority, made the Senate the exact same process of election as the house to effectively neuter it's purpose, and changed the us vice presidency from the runner up into a person of the winner's choice, allowing in this election for a person who got zero delegates in the primaries for president to gain the seat of vice president and the power of the president himself, since our president is too senile to do it himself. Our system used to be incredibly intelligent. It's just over the last 50-60 years that we've become what you see now. Just you wait, another 10 years, and justices will have term limits or the court will be increased in number every 4 years, while the Senate and house still don't get term limits.
      Government used to be a civic duty. You wouldn't get paid much, and you did it because you felt called. But these vultures in Congress keep voting themselves massive raises and bonuses, so of course they want to make a career out of it. The funny part is, the reason Congress does so little actual work was because of their small pay. They do the same small amount of work, but get paid better than some doctors.

    • @kachao2113
      @kachao2113 3 роки тому

      @Uncookedcat 069 Republicans don't do anything. The only critique for Republicans is just how useless they are.

    •  3 роки тому

      @Uncookedcat 069 well the Republicans are the silent party as they barely get any say on anything. So when the leading party fu%# everything up. Ofcourse the Democrats are to blame.

  • @robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708
    @robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 3 роки тому +81

    Its disgusting that these companies are killing people with price gouging

    • @kvasir8931
      @kvasir8931 3 роки тому +2

      I mean sure but its not like they are hording water and making people pay for it. They are creating something that does not exist in nature and sell it to people. Without them, everyone with diabetes would be dead.

    • @robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708
      @robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 3 роки тому +1

      @@kvasir8931 But what if you aren't able to pay?

    • @prithvishetty6938
      @prithvishetty6938 3 роки тому

      the prices are high because they dont have much competition

    • @kvasir8931
      @kvasir8931 3 роки тому +1

      @@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 My point is that they are not killing people with price gouging, they are saving less people with price gouging.

    • @rdowg
      @rdowg 3 роки тому +2

      @@kvasir8931 eh, when you're purposefully raising the price of alife-saving product 1000% over a few years for no other reason than youre making more money, you kiiiiinda are responsible for why these people cant get it.

  • @Smoke_Rush
    @Smoke_Rush 3 роки тому +353

    "It's not about the money. It's about sending a message"

    • @mikeock2087
      @mikeock2087 3 роки тому +12

      * lights huge pile of cash on fire *

    • @henrybutler6137
      @henrybutler6137 3 роки тому +8

      *saves thousands of people's lives*

    • @youtubetv1588
      @youtubetv1588 3 роки тому +6

      Wouldn't have to do this if Trump was still president. He made insulin so much cheaper, but the new pedophile administration reversed it!

    • @chezzynachos4205
      @chezzynachos4205 3 роки тому +1

      @@youtubetv1588 Sources?

    • @pugduck1917
      @pugduck1917 3 роки тому +2

      @@chezzynachos4205 here's a source, and as expected, its claiming exactly the *opposite* of what the trump supporter says
      www.americanactionforum.org/research/insulin-cost-and-pricing-trends/

  • @patriciaisaacs3080
    @patriciaisaacs3080 3 роки тому +32

    Would like to express my condolences for when the Corporations cause their “suicides” and “accidents” leading to their deaths.

  • @tessjones5987
    @tessjones5987 3 роки тому +81

    Adore these people. So dedicated to helping these insulin needing humans.

    • @Polyglot_English
      @Polyglot_English 3 роки тому

      Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙

    • @MariaChavez-ey5sr
      @MariaChavez-ey5sr 3 роки тому

      Thank you for the words of support I’ll be sharing them with our Open Insulin team!

  • @ez9566
    @ez9566 3 роки тому +52

    You see a small group of people working for affordable Insulin, You're filled with determination.

    • @Polyglot_English
      @Polyglot_English 3 роки тому

      Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙

  • @robertbrazier5097
    @robertbrazier5097 3 роки тому +299

    The fact that this is even an issue in the US is just depressing

    • @Sxfwxm
      @Sxfwxm 3 роки тому +15

      Not surprised. The US has plenty of issue, more than people think. It's a 2nd world country in a 1st world country jacket.

    • @hanneskannes4621
      @hanneskannes4621 3 роки тому

      Not an problem in Germany xD

    • @threebreak6303
      @threebreak6303 3 роки тому +2

      Insulin is free in egypt

    • @nuclearbomb9483
      @nuclearbomb9483 3 роки тому +3

      @@hanneskannes4621 even in canada, a country sharing a BORDER of the us

    • @jockin
      @jockin 3 роки тому +4

      @@Sxfwxm The usa is more fucked up than people actually believe, yes, it is a better alternative to live there than in north korea, but just because it's better than some other places doesn't mean it's not bad, search up "How America (USA) Messed Me Up | #TikTok #Compilation" on youtube for example

  • @beth8775
    @beth8775 3 роки тому +19

    They need to share their info regularly so there are back-ups - just in case.

    • @coagulatedsalts4711
      @coagulatedsalts4711 3 роки тому

      i agree but i also think big pharma could steal it and patent their version before they finish, leading us back to square one. if i were them, i'd put the procedure in a flash drive and put it in my will that it'd go to someone else, and have them give the drive to someone else in their death.

  • @Quonzer
    @Quonzer 3 роки тому +261

    If and when this group pulls this off, they should get a Nobel Peace Prize.

    • @serenityssolace
      @serenityssolace 3 роки тому +25

      This prize goes to people who bombed as many other people as possible

    • @girishc96
      @girishc96 3 роки тому +27

      For what ? It's just the US that hikes the cost of basic medicine. Other countries already got that going for them. There are also generic medicines which are way cheaper than "branded" medicine that mostly do the same job.

    • @polynuclear2970
      @polynuclear2970 3 роки тому +8

      @@girishc96 they would be helping in third world countries aswell, but yeah I don't think it's deserving of a peace prize

    • @rakninja
      @rakninja 3 роки тому

      @@polynuclear2970 a biochemistry prize, sure, though.

    • @tuyiren781
      @tuyiren781 3 роки тому +10

      @@rakninja it's not really a break through either .. really.

  • @bv2289
    @bv2289 3 роки тому +1945

    Mugger: "Give me your money or die!"
    American healthcare: "Give me your money or die!"

    • @theohallenius8882
      @theohallenius8882 3 роки тому +266

      No, American healthcare be like: "Give me your money AND die!" xD

    • @B-RaDD
      @B-RaDD 3 роки тому +12

      @@theohallenius8882 🤣🤣☠️☠️

    • @brtecson
      @brtecson 3 роки тому +48

      American healthcare: "We think this is a fair price for a life-saving drug".
      They make it sound "fair" when they speak of drug prices.

    • @EtreTocsin
      @EtreTocsin 3 роки тому +4

      Exactly.

    • @changedname_8970
      @changedname_8970 3 роки тому +1

      At original comment, essentially

  • @AmanSingh-nw7lw
    @AmanSingh-nw7lw 3 роки тому +75

    Insulin in India costs $25 a month for even the most needy patients, while you can get it for free from government dispensaries if you have a government hospital prescription

    • @danielefavaretto174
      @danielefavaretto174 3 роки тому +6

      Same in italy, if you want the whole set up (pen, needle, and vial) max 40€.

    • @tiloalo
      @tiloalo 3 роки тому +12

      @NRG 2000 because the us forbid it, only approved companies can sell it

    • @tiloalo
      @tiloalo 3 роки тому +6

      @NRG 2000 yes I feel it almost speak for the big pharma, pretending like it's a complicated process while it cost an average of 8$ outside of the USA and 111$ in the USA...

    • @dudukf
      @dudukf 3 роки тому +1

      @NRG 2000 Humalog (by Eli Lilly, an american company) costs R$80 (15USD) in Brazil.

    • @beepboop3740
      @beepboop3740 3 роки тому +1

      Yes, but India’s GDP per capita is trash...

  • @lueysixty-six7300
    @lueysixty-six7300 3 роки тому +2

    Godspeed, hero's!
    My step bro died from Type 1 Diabetes at 25 yrs old.
    This wouldn't have changed that, but even so, this rings a chord with me.

  • @cncgeneral
    @cncgeneral 3 роки тому +103

    I like how when they're pointing out places this is necessary, it lists a few US cities, then jumps straight to third world countries... This literally isn't a problem anywhere else

    • @xsmallmusic2174
      @xsmallmusic2174 3 роки тому +19

      Except that, as they stated in the video, some places in the world simply don't sell insulin.
      They don't have it for whatever reason, and hopefully they will be able to bring insulin to their cities at an affordable cost as well.

    • @jsplit9716
      @jsplit9716 3 роки тому +10

      @@xsmallmusic2174 yes, as the op said third world countries are the other places outside the US that don't sell insulin. This isn't a global problem it's a problem that only affects countries with completly disfunctional medical systems aka the US and the third world.

    • @terryarmbruster7986
      @terryarmbruster7986 3 роки тому

      @@xsmallmusic2174 that's an outright lie. I have family pretty much in every country in the world. Name one actual country doesn't have it or can't order it in. Just one.

    • @xsmallmusic2174
      @xsmallmusic2174 3 роки тому

      @@terryarmbruster7986 I said "as they stated in the video," I was basing my comment off of what they said in the video
      At 5:01 they mention "There's other countries around the world that don't even have access to insulin.
      (Edit) "It's not even that it's too expensive, it's just not there."

    • @theclockworkcadaver7025
      @theclockworkcadaver7025 3 роки тому +2

      @@jsplit9716 'Dysfunctional medical systems' where do you think the world gets its insulin from? Hint: it's usually NOT produced in the countries with tax-funded healthcare. The UK for instance gets the vast majority of its insulin from the very same pharmaceutical companies mentioned in this video. Because the US is the #1 inventor of new medication IN THE WORLD.

  • @skywalktriceiam
    @skywalktriceiam 3 роки тому +407

    Thanks Freethink, for pissing me off and giving me relief in one 5 minute vid

    • @freethink
      @freethink  3 роки тому +38

      *takes bow*
      Thanks for watching!

    • @skywalktriceiam
      @skywalktriceiam 3 роки тому +6

      @@freethink 😀💐

    • @RockySmithsen
      @RockySmithsen 3 роки тому +1

      This really was quite the emotional roller coaster

  • @TechyBen
    @TechyBen 3 роки тому +277

    "I'm not angry with you... I'm getting even [cheaper prices]"

  • @rajandutta
    @rajandutta 3 роки тому +4

    Coming from a family in India with the diabetes issue and seeing my father on insulin till the day he lived I'm surprised at how expensive such a crucial life saving medication is in the supposedly richest most powerful country in earth. We used to pay like $5 for the vials and over the years now it's about $11. Thank God for the generic medicine companies in India.
    I've also seen the same with chemo meds. My mother had cancer and she passed away about 13 years ago however when we were getting her chemo done the generic therapy costed us about $500 ( very expensive in a poor country like ours but thankfully the govt pays for that) as against about $5000 from multi national corps like Novartis, etc.
    The story of the mum struggling for those insulin for her son brought tears to my eyes, I wish our pharma companies would open source the secrets so that no mother would have to go through what she probably is going at this moment.

  • @tylerlambert8953
    @tylerlambert8953 3 роки тому +1341

    I love how everyone in the comments already knows to mourn his death.

    • @ToasterBath
      @ToasterBath 3 роки тому +165

      Its a pretty common thing at this point. Big Pharma sees a intense threat to their oligopoly... they'll want it gone as soon as possible

    • @diamondfox1178
      @diamondfox1178 3 роки тому +24

      @@ToasterBath You can't kill an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

    • @diamondfox1178
      @diamondfox1178 3 роки тому +5

      @@ToasterBath You can't kill an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

    • @ToasterBath
      @ToasterBath 3 роки тому +40

      @@diamondfox1178 true, but one could kill those who reproduce it. But at this point... it will soon be too oit of hand for Big Pharma to control

    • @patrokus6889
      @patrokus6889 3 роки тому +5

      @@diamondfox1178 good movie choice

  • @WintersTheSixth
    @WintersTheSixth 3 роки тому +172

    Let's hope they share what they have right now so if any "accidents" happen we can picked up when they stopped

  • @eyecandyfactory
    @eyecandyfactory 3 роки тому +203

    Extend this model to everything: things that people need to survive should be made affordable and available. To do otherwise is to deprive some of the basic right to survive. Capitalism has its place but tolerating greed beyond the line of morality is an irresponsible mindset.

    • @yc__
      @yc__ 3 роки тому +12

      its NOT capitalism if big companies can rig the system to benefit only themselves

    • @harrisonbaillie
      @harrisonbaillie 3 роки тому +30

      @@yc__ hate to be the one to tell you, but that’s literally what capitalism is

    • @yc__
      @yc__ 3 роки тому +21

      @@harrisonbaillie so free market is when big companies rig the system with the power of the government? Hate to tell you but thats not capitalism, thats corporatism.

    • @killerbuzzit347
      @killerbuzzit347 3 роки тому +12

      @@yc__ hate to tell you but capitalism always leads to corporatism the same way communism always leads to a dictatorship

    • @natthewsmith
      @natthewsmith 3 роки тому +6

      @@yc__ how do you think it got the way it is? Government and magic? Corporations use their economic power to control gov policy, it's all an extension of the same system. The point is to capture the government. This is just the system as it slides into rampant dysfunction.

  • @johnyves1246
    @johnyves1246 Рік тому +2

    I have just discovered this initiative. It is MAJOR imo. I would like to setup several self funded community labs in France to produce insulin. My project is to save the diabetic community in case of major insulin disruption due to unforeseen disasters.

  • @DarkGT
    @DarkGT 3 роки тому +1176

    Common sense: "You can't put price on life"
    Big pharmas: "Yes you can, 300 dollars!"

    • @zunriya
      @zunriya 3 роки тому +39

      1grand u mean

    • @demonz9065
      @demonz9065 3 роки тому +15

      thats only the price on a short span of life

    • @phuc3220
      @phuc3220 3 роки тому +21

      Insulin is much cheaper depending on the cost. More primitive ones are available for cheap but the expensive insulin you are talking about is artificially synthesised with mechanisms for time and releasing to be as close as human insulin as possible. This takes years of R&D research and enormous manufacturing capabilities.
      It isn’t as simple as you think.

    • @DarkGT
      @DarkGT 3 роки тому +34

      @@phuc3220 That's why it takes so much time for those biohackers to master the small scale production. They are simply not ready yet.

    • @bign1667
      @bign1667 3 роки тому +9

      Replace the word "can't" with "shouldn't"

  • @granberyacademia
    @granberyacademia 3 роки тому +105

    This is so outside my day to day reality, even though I am a Med student in Brazil. Insulin therapy is payed for by the government here.

    • @popeyedesailorman5225
      @popeyedesailorman5225 3 роки тому +16

      Take a look at Britain and see how it's government is slowly but surely undermining and privatising their national health service. The same can happen in Brazil.
      Always remain vigilant with your health service, especially with people like Bolsonaro and his health minister!

  • @acidset
    @acidset 3 роки тому +344

    God bless them and may every person profiting off of others suffering rot

    • @kaparg
      @kaparg 3 роки тому

      Si institute anarchism? Neat

    • @reallytrue6611
      @reallytrue6611 3 роки тому +1

      @@lashof2726 just stfu dude you are prolly lying but he means exploiting people and incresing prices for no reason do you raise the amound you get paid by patients by 1000% over 8 years??? No the stfu

    • @gregmcgregginton574
      @gregmcgregginton574 3 роки тому

      Hell yes

    • @LS-wy4bk
      @LS-wy4bk 3 роки тому

      @@kaparg read again

    • @kaparg
      @kaparg 3 роки тому

      @@LS-wy4bk this talks about people profiting off people's suffering, so basically everyone related to the government, aka anarchy!

  • @jackburton5085
    @jackburton5085 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm amazed that this laboratory was not destroyed by fire, and that the *heroes* who work there were not found dead in suspicious situations.

  • @lel7531
    @lel7531 3 роки тому +97

    If they get $WHACKD we’ll know why

    • @DarkGT
      @DarkGT 3 роки тому +1

      If someone "whack them" we know who and why :)

    • @unionvalleyagproducts
      @unionvalleyagproducts 3 роки тому +8

      Exactly but they've got enough pull to get you de-platformed if you start making waves

    • @chrismullin8304
      @chrismullin8304 3 роки тому +8

      It will be mysterious suicide or freak car accident.

    • @cowboy4378
      @cowboy4378 3 роки тому +2

      The won’t be killed. They’ll be sued and have their lives destroyed

    • @bendirval3612
      @bendirval3612 3 роки тому +3

      They won't get whacked, but I suspect the US government will not allow import or domestic production of their product.

  • @akshitaggarwal1379
    @akshitaggarwal1379 3 роки тому +80

    I hope this group finds their breakthrough soon enough.

    • @89DerChristian
      @89DerChristian 3 роки тому +1

      The breakthrough would be "adopt any healthcare system from any other developed country". Problem solved (and a million others as well)

    • @rsj2877
      @rsj2877 3 роки тому +2

      And not get epsteined.

    • @J6yson
      @J6yson 3 роки тому

      Google search “Optimizing Empathetic AI to Cure Deadly Diseases - Intel”.
      Enzolytics and Intel are working together to create monoclonal antibodies that will cure HIV and many other infectious diseases

  • @tedstrong3990
    @tedstrong3990 3 роки тому +315

    These people need to be protected with armed guards, I’m happy to hear that insulin may become affordable in my lifetime.

    • @alxn806
      @alxn806 3 роки тому +25

      It is affordable in Europe... Actually very very affordable. These us corporations just make them expensive

    • @bgtsiberia1999
      @bgtsiberia1999 3 роки тому +33

      @@alxn806 in the uk its free, the US system is all about milking the average person. I find it absurd that people pay for health insurance not to get health care paid for but to bring the costs down to something manigable its crazy

    • @jimmypage1969
      @jimmypage1969 3 роки тому +1

      @@bgtsiberia1999 it actually blows my mind.

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 3 роки тому +1

      @@alxn806 Isn't Novo Nordisc a Danish company?

    • @alxn806
      @alxn806 3 роки тому

      @@aniksamiurrahman6365 what? I don't know. Have I said anything about Nordisc??? Wtf

  • @sorcellerie
    @sorcellerie 3 роки тому +1

    The moment a random person in a skyscraper decides whether someone is going to die or not is the moment we have to put a stop to it. How much longer are we going to pretend this is a normal situation, when people have no means to afford something they physically cannot live without? I have enormous respect for people in the video, they are seriously doing mountains of work.

  • @rogeliorodriguez8518
    @rogeliorodriguez8518 3 роки тому +42

    I buy my insulin through Mexico and have tried Canada. I’ve tried having insurance but it’s just way too expensive.
    The bottle on the insulin bought in Mexico says “don’t sell in the US”. It’s the exact same prescription.

    • @J6yson
      @J6yson 3 роки тому +3

      Google search “Optimizing Empathetic AI to Cure Deadly Diseases - Intel”.
      Enzolytics and Intel are working together to create monoclonal antibodies that will cure HIV and many other infectious diseases

    • @halvmane5969
      @halvmane5969 3 роки тому +7

      @@J6yson looking through your comments, why all the spam about HIV where the OP doesnt even mention it? Even copy pasted?

    • @Animal-Reaction-Clips
      @Animal-Reaction-Clips 3 роки тому +1

      @@halvmane5969 chill out it's a comment . This is what UA-cam is about

    • @yoavmend1909
      @yoavmend1909 3 роки тому +7

      @@Animal-Reaction-Clips what? This guy is spamming stuff for no reason so he asked why

  • @Shunned_Potato
    @Shunned_Potato 3 роки тому +35

    The video of Katie in tears is more than enough to tell us what needs to be done.

    • @lead_sommelier
      @lead_sommelier 3 роки тому

      Decapitate the pharma oligarchs (in a videogame ofc)

  • @alexbuss3377
    @alexbuss3377 3 роки тому +72

    The issue is that the people that make this stuff are unrivaled, so they’re able to set prices as high as they want. So this group needs to sell a bunch of their insulin at a lower price to set the price point low.

    • @finnzweitname5905
      @finnzweitname5905 3 роки тому +1

      But they can't produce it in large quantities

    • @droffilcc8800
      @droffilcc8800 3 роки тому +1

      @@finnzweitname5905 This is just one company, in the video it said this company is sharing the protocol and instructions to create the insulin to other companies completely free of charge.

    • @paravalent7974
      @paravalent7974 3 роки тому +2

      @@droffilcc8800 thats very brave of them, not capitalizing on good chunk of money

    • @somerelativleyuninterestin4763
      @somerelativleyuninterestin4763 3 роки тому +3

      @@paravalent7974 its not brave, it’s the humane thing to do

    • @paravalent7974
      @paravalent7974 3 роки тому +2

      @@somerelativleyuninterestin4763 yeah i shouldnt have used brave, i probably shouldve used heroic or smthn

  • @Unfortunate_developement
    @Unfortunate_developement Рік тому +1

    I'm a type 1 diabetic. I would be willing to partake in a medical trial for this one day.

  • @Megan-nt7dm
    @Megan-nt7dm 3 роки тому +44

    There is no justification for exponentially increasing the price of necessary to life drugs that cost pennies to make. There is a similar problem with multiple sclerosis drugs, where drugs that have been on the market for decades went from a thousand dollars a year to 90k+ a year.....

    • @testemailqwee8157
      @testemailqwee8157 3 роки тому +7

      The justification is evergreen patents. Renewing patents for drugs indefinitely. This should not be a thing.

    • @mattkennedy6115
      @mattkennedy6115 3 роки тому +2

      @C Preacher Facebook news bro stop spreading misinformation

    • @mattkennedy6115
      @mattkennedy6115 3 роки тому

      @C Preacher a quick google search will show your statement isn’t true. Sorry I believe in facts and not lies 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @mattkennedy6115
      @mattkennedy6115 3 роки тому

      @C Preacher no spin. Google search. Multiple sources and none of what you just named.
      www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/fact-check-joe-biden-responsible-rising-cost-insulin-1569045%3famp=1
      www.google.com/amp/s/amp.statesman.com/amp/6740566002
      www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/4254921001
      There’s a half truth in there which Foxnews ran with but the fact that insulin prices have tripled from from 2003 to 2013 is left out. Have a nice day dude

    • @DK-ij4qt
      @DK-ij4qt 3 роки тому

      Dr Hyman D MD American
      medical doctor Explains in his blog
      I am often asked if there is a way to deal with autoimmune disease -
      the most common chronic disease - the most common question being
      “Is there any way to deal with this without taking powerful anti-inflammatory drugs that often have serious side effects?”
      𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝟭 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀,
      They include type 1 diabetes,
      lupus, rheumatoid arthritis,
      multiple sclerosis, colitis,
      Crohn’s disease, and dozens of others, but they all have one thing in common: The body attacks itself.
      Autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis or RA, often include challenging symptoms such as pain, swelling, fatigue, and disability.
      At their root, one central biochemical process connects these seemingly disparate diseases:
      A runaway immune response, called systemic inflammation, inevitably results in your body attacking its own tissues.
      Your immune system’s job is
      to defend you against invaders or foreign microbes, toxins, or abnormal cells like cancer
      or foreign food proteins (allergens).
      Imagine your immune system as an army that must clearly distinguish friend from foe
      Conventional medicine accepts this problem,
      but stops there, without LOOKING for what might be causing the body
      to be out of balance
      and attacking itself.
      Instead, conventional medicine
      invents pharmaceutical drugs
      to inhibit, block, or anti-something,
      and fails to answer
      one simple question:
      Why is the body out of balance to begin with, and
      how do we help it regain the proper balance?

  • @maxanderson6216
    @maxanderson6216 3 роки тому +192

    I can tell this isn’t going to go well with the government…

    • @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE
      @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE 3 роки тому +35

      Corporate monopolies that lobby the government*

    • @menmikimen
      @menmikimen 3 роки тому +11

      bribe the government*

    • @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE
      @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE 3 роки тому +13

      Menmikimen which is exactly what lobbying is. But calling it “bribing” sounds corrupt and bad.

    • @nahuelleandroarroyo
      @nahuelleandroarroyo 3 роки тому +1

      Not even, they dont have enough to beat the basics for drug manufacture.
      A finished product is not what this video shows, this video is strictly development and validation, not manufacture

    • @menmikimen
      @menmikimen 3 роки тому

      @@sPACEmANtYLERSPACE sorry, I am not from the US.

  • @TrueSuspekt
    @TrueSuspekt 3 роки тому +122

    I'm late to this, but that team should:
    - make a "kill switch" on the web to release the info
    - move their ops to another location/make it mobile
    - hire security
    If Pharma are able to discredit/destroy people that say "this medication can permanently resolve arterial plaque (dental bacterial induced)", I can only imagine what happens to these open project folks trying to make the world a better place.
    Good luck to them.

    • @L30GH05TDUD3
      @L30GH05TDUD3 3 роки тому +18

      Surely the NSA and the FBI and DEA are now looking forward into these guys. What they need is some good lawyers too because they’ll get Epstein’d the moment they get jailed

    • @nctrnlmjsty8719
      @nctrnlmjsty8719 3 роки тому +7

      Theyre gonna be suicided

    • @thebiglightbulb1457
      @thebiglightbulb1457 3 роки тому +2

      Where's the story on the plaque thing?

    • @the_retag
      @the_retag 3 роки тому +4

      Its open source
      They dont need a kill switch
      Cause its all all ready out

    • @zilvoxidgod
      @zilvoxidgod 3 роки тому

      they won't think of this and that's why this will fail

  • @avilio6574
    @avilio6574 3 роки тому +7

    Chevere, como dicen: se dice que las empresas son "impersonales" pero el funcionamiento de estas no lo es. El hecho que jueguen bajo las reglas actuales demuestra que realmente son buenas personas.

  • @ruckboger
    @ruckboger 3 роки тому +375

    Lifesaving drugs should be exempt from patent law.

    • @krishnayogi
      @krishnayogi 3 роки тому +48

      insulin is already not under any patent law , the issue is , insulting manufacturing in US is heavily restricted / over complicated etc

    • @illumiNOTme326
      @illumiNOTme326 3 роки тому +57

      @@krishnayogi exactly! This is exactly what the large corporations love. High regulations so that they're the only ones who can dominate the market keep all the smaller companies out

    • @DragonZhan
      @DragonZhan 3 роки тому +15

      Insulin isn't patented. The problem is insurance companies in America, not the pharma companies.

    • @RobinTheBot
      @RobinTheBot 3 роки тому +25

      @@DragonZhan The problem is both, sadly. The companies are forced to fight for money due to abuse by insurance companies, but after decades of that pharma is fundamentally geared to generate profit through hostage tactics. Insurance will screw them at every turn, so they have to make up for it on items insurance MUST pay for, by jumping prices on things that are not optional. It's no longer necessary, but it IS profitable and legal, so the practices continue.
      It's the same as how hospitals charge $9 for a bandaid. They have to stay high so when insurance haggles them down to $.01 they can recoup on the poor and uninsured.
      Insurance companies should be dissolved and their executives jailed.

    • @ennuiii
      @ennuiii 3 роки тому +3

      @@illumiNOTme326 lol, imagine being this stupid

  • @lucasgama2962
    @lucasgama2962 3 роки тому +170

    Damn, in my country it's 16 dollars and I already thought it was crazy expensive

    • @balikis
      @balikis 3 роки тому

      Where is that country

    • @kristianstaalby8499
      @kristianstaalby8499 3 роки тому +3

      After subsidiaries it's about 2 dollars here

    • @disketa25
      @disketa25 3 роки тому +6

      @@balikis approx $68 per month, Russia (and that $68 is if there are lag in delivery, because it should be provided for free by state... And it mostly is, but not always). Legacy of the destroyed country which worked for people, not capitalists.

    • @iamnode2088
      @iamnode2088 3 роки тому +1

      it's less than 2$ in India

    • @theBabyDead
      @theBabyDead 3 роки тому

      In my country my obligated government sponsored health insurance covers it and I still think its expensive (400 bucks a year "own risk")

  • @Karebear01
    @Karebear01 3 роки тому +180

    I love this series. It gives me so much hope for society!!!!

    • @freethink
      @freethink  3 роки тому +6

      So glad to hear, thanks for watching!!

    • @brunoblattlicht7081
      @brunoblattlicht7081 3 роки тому

      The crash is coming, insulin cartels are gonna take over

  • @jenzy105
    @jenzy105 3 роки тому +41

    Damn, i didn’t even know that prices for insuline are this high. As a type 1 diabetic myself, it seems i’m really lucky to have been born in Belgium. I think I only pay like 10 to 15 euro’s for 6 insuline pens that last about a month and a half.
    Merica the land of the free... such a joke

    • @Ethan-qe8pe
      @Ethan-qe8pe 3 роки тому +1

      You litterally can get everything absolutely free. I am a diabetic and no matter how much you make it will always be free. It falls under a pre existing condition and always has/ will be.

    • @timetokillslapp
      @timetokillslapp 3 роки тому

      @@Ethan-qe8pe THATS ABSOLUTELY WRONG. Grow up a bit before you speak.

    • @Ethan-qe8pe
      @Ethan-qe8pe 3 роки тому +3

      @@timetokillslapp have you had T1D for over a decade?

    • @hollow_dbd
      @hollow_dbd 3 роки тому

      @@Ethan-qe8pe I wonder why he didn’t respond?…

    • @gqqggq7127
      @gqqggq7127 3 роки тому

      Another problem though is how much does the healthcare system have to pay? If they're buying from the us sellers and covering $1000 for you, that's wasted tax

  • @davionelliot
    @davionelliot 3 роки тому +117

    It’s absolutely ridiculous that we have to pay so much just to stay alive.

    • @ampleman602
      @ampleman602 3 роки тому +3

      Welcome to Earth

    • @higharenji
      @higharenji 3 роки тому +23

      @@ampleman602 No man I think it's just America and a few others.

    • @BrainPermaDeD
      @BrainPermaDeD 3 роки тому

      @@higharenji Just the expensive western world.

    • @francoismartineau2519
      @francoismartineau2519 3 роки тому +1

      All animals have to do tremendous work to extend their life. Humans are no exception.

    • @ampleman602
      @ampleman602 3 роки тому +4

      @@higharenji few others? Other than Europe, pretty much every country has paid health services.

  • @joesmith7644
    @joesmith7644 3 роки тому +188

    Hopefully the company doesn’t "go broke" out of nowhere

    • @ChristoKiwi
      @ChristoKiwi 3 роки тому +8

      You mean "experienced freedom 🦅" ?

  • @shadowblade9385
    @shadowblade9385 3 роки тому +358

    “They do envision sharing the protocol for producing insulin with community labs all over the world”
    Ah yes, the return of real Chemists!

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 3 роки тому +4

      this isnt chemistry. insulin is a protein and it needs to be made inside cells because there are parts that get cut up and stuck on in different parts. surely youve noticed the difference between buying yeast enzymes vs insulin

    • @shadowblade9385
      @shadowblade9385 3 роки тому +3

      @@jonathanodude6660 Chemist as in a pharmacist

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 3 роки тому +10

      @@shadowblade9385 i think protein purification and gene transfection are also beyond the realms of a pharmacist, not to mention cell culture.

    • @almightybogza
      @almightybogza 3 роки тому +13

      @@jonathanodude6660 Thats biochemistry. Its chemistry within biology.

    • @ThePandafriend
      @ThePandafriend 3 роки тому

      @@almightybogza It's not (just) biochemistry, because you need to produce it in a bioreactor. So it's also biotechnology.

  • @halolime117
    @halolime117 3 роки тому +35

    Meanwhile in Europe: Pay for healthcare? That doesn’t make sense

    • @ptr347
      @ptr347 3 роки тому +4

      And even if we had to pay for real price insulin, that would be cheaper than a monthly car insurance in the US

    • @gqqggq7127
      @gqqggq7127 3 роки тому +1

      The healthcare system might still have to pay from taxes. Regulations may reduce the cost, but the US is still a major producer of drugs and so a healthcare system has to pay whatever the drug costs in order to provide it.

    • @Cooljo88827
      @Cooljo88827 3 роки тому

      @A Min the US, health insurance will literally just pay less than you would for your treatment.

  • @ChipCheerio
    @ChipCheerio 3 роки тому +153

    So let me get this straight, the FDA is opening the market back up? Loosening the restrictions again on a market that is open to generics? Well I see this as an absolute win. It’s about damn time that happened. We’ll be looking at a Genentech situation before too long I hope.

    • @miteshkumar3183
      @miteshkumar3183 3 роки тому +1

      Basically, the lady in the beginning is getting screwed over by the huge market of people willing and able to shell out cash for new insulin formulations for which there are patents. This whole problem could be easily solved if people were okay with using older insulin formulas that dont currently have a patent.

    • @buythegamesagain
      @buythegamesagain 3 роки тому +4

      @@miteshkumar3183 yes, because it is wrong to ask for the latest in medicine. If you’ll excuse me, I have to get to my daily bleeding. Tootles

    • @miteshkumar3183
      @miteshkumar3183 3 роки тому

      @@buythegamesagain Except corporations aren't here for social welfare. They have families to feed too. They would have to operate at a loss in order to do the research and development they do on insulin and not protect their profits with a patent.

    • @buythegamesagain
      @buythegamesagain 3 роки тому +2

      @@miteshkumar3183 good for you, completely ignoring my point.

    • @danielxiong8592
      @danielxiong8592 3 роки тому +2

      @@miteshkumar3183 no that is where you are wrong corporations are money making machine, most worker they have are paid wages and the top dogs make millions if not billions of dollar

  • @santiagomoebio
    @santiagomoebio 3 роки тому +174

    "It's not angry anymore, it's determination"

    • @kajetus0688
      @kajetus0688 3 роки тому +2

      "you are filled with"
      *DETERMINATION*

    • @growingsoul30
      @growingsoul30 3 роки тому

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    • @cakeisyummy5755
      @cakeisyummy5755 3 роки тому

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  • @theodorebear6714
    @theodorebear6714 3 роки тому +51

    *THIS IS HOW YOU FIGHT BACK.*

  • @grindcorejoe4485
    @grindcorejoe4485 3 роки тому +1

    In Poland 1 month supply of insulin costs 20$, it's 70% subsidized by the state if you're 26 or above which means the actual price is 67$/month. It's probably the same all over EU give or take few €.

  • @splatbot8091
    @splatbot8091 3 роки тому +51

    Remember, Violating patents like these is morally fine

    • @revimfadli4666
      @revimfadli4666 3 роки тому +5

      Yeah it's a disgrace to grassroots inventors if their deservedness for compensation is used to defend abusive monopolies

    • @horizoon
      @horizoon 3 роки тому +4

      Esp. As the guy who invented it didn't want to patent it in order to have it cheaply available for everyone.