39: Battling Big Pharma
03/14/25 • 47 min
Diabetics are stuck in an abusive relationship with pharmaceutical corporations: if we try to fight to make insulin more affordable, they can simply stop distributing it, leaving us without the very thing we need to survive. We look back at the last decade of insulin access advocacy to see how advocates walk the line between progress and ruin.
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Diabetics are stuck in an abusive relationship with pharmaceutical corporations: if we try to fight to make insulin more affordable, they can simply stop distributing it, leaving us without the very thing we need to survive. We look back at the last decade of insulin access advocacy to see how advocates walk the line between progress and ruin.
Things we talk about:
Support Beta Cell on Patreon.
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Things we mention:
- Dexcom's sensor replacement policy
- Comparison of G7 and Libre 3 Accuracy
- Write to your representatives about Dexcom's policy (from Beta Cell Action)
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