346. The Insulin Empire, Part 1 (ft. Athena Sofides)
Added 2024-06-11 22:34:45 +0000 UTCWe are joined by Athena Sofides who co-wrote (with Ed) a brilliant essay in The Baffler, which provides an in-depth analysis of insulin, the social health factors of diabetes, and the global oligopoly of pharmaceutical corporations that exert total control over – and extract max profits from — this medicine that many millions of diabetics depend upon everyday and are unable to access. We go deep on how this insulin cartel is waging, as they write “a war to remake insulin into a more profitable form, its patients into a more profitable demographic, and its market into a noncompetitive oligopoly.”
The Insulin Empire https://thebaffler.com/after-the-fact/the-insulin-empire-ongweso-jr-sofides
Mutual Aid Diabetes https://mutualaiddiabetes.com/
T1International https://www.t1international.com/
Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
Comments
Really good point. I’ve had two diabetic cats in my life and luckily at the time insulin wasn’t so damn expensive. - Jereme
This Machine Kills
2024-06-15 19:30:52 +0000 UTCI was surprised there was no talk about how even animals are becoming diabetic now a days. It's like The Empire is making it happen to whatever beings they think they can get money out of.
Jeremy Krall
2024-06-15 19:17:12 +0000 UTCYesterday I ask if TMK can cover biotech and today the episodes appear. Am I God?
Literally Propaganda
2024-06-11 22:44:52 +0000 UTC
