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It’s less the patent per se than the production cost. A lot of cost estimates use the 1980s Humalin or whatnot as their baseline. I’m not diabetic. But everyone I know who is doesn’t like that one. So we need to know the cost for the medicines folks are actually taking.


It looks like the cost to manufacture modern biosimilars could be around $2-6 per vial.

https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850


Cost to manufacture obviously isnt the only factor.




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