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walkitoutI’ve apparently been thinking about insulin a lot lately!
Anyway.
I learned today that Eli Lilly is going to reduce prices on some of its insulin products (I was over at WSJ; I’m not endorsing WSJ or suggesting you read it, but here’s what I saw: https://www.wsj.com/articles/eli-lilly-to-cut-prices-of-insulin-drugs-by-70-c554f516). I was amused that in a heist episode of The Equalizer, a point in the backstory of the reformed criminal who was Robin’s client was that he turned to crime in order to pay for his younger brother’s insulin after their parents died. (The Equalizer, Season 3, Episode 9, “Second Chance”)
Apparently, this is the point at which pharma concedes. When your pricing choices are a plot point in The Equalizer, when your corporate choices are used to make a criminal more sympathetic, it’s probably time to change your pricing choices.
ETA:
Unrelated to insulin, but also in WSJ today, an article about Young People wanting to drive manual transmission cars.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/manual-transmission-stick-shift-cars-929dc155
The article explicitly relates this to point-and-shoot cameras and vinyl records as a similar trend. AND hilariously, the end quote is from a young woman who is already tired of her manual BMW and plans to buy an electric BMW when she can afford to.
As a formerly young woman who when young thought a manual was cool to drive, I can only agree with this choice. It is _currently_ still useful to know how to drive a manual when renting cars in some other countries. And also, I don’t expect that to last forever, either.
Good times. Young people being retro, and figuring out why we decided those things actually were not worth keeping around is in fact a core component of how our decisions are solidified after being double and triple checked.
Anyway.
I learned today that Eli Lilly is going to reduce prices on some of its insulin products (I was over at WSJ; I’m not endorsing WSJ or suggesting you read it, but here’s what I saw: https://www.wsj.com/articles/eli-lilly-to-cut-prices-of-insulin-drugs-by-70-c554f516). I was amused that in a heist episode of The Equalizer, a point in the backstory of the reformed criminal who was Robin’s client was that he turned to crime in order to pay for his younger brother’s insulin after their parents died. (The Equalizer, Season 3, Episode 9, “Second Chance”)
Apparently, this is the point at which pharma concedes. When your pricing choices are a plot point in The Equalizer, when your corporate choices are used to make a criminal more sympathetic, it’s probably time to change your pricing choices.
ETA:
Unrelated to insulin, but also in WSJ today, an article about Young People wanting to drive manual transmission cars.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/manual-transmission-stick-shift-cars-929dc155
The article explicitly relates this to point-and-shoot cameras and vinyl records as a similar trend. AND hilariously, the end quote is from a young woman who is already tired of her manual BMW and plans to buy an electric BMW when she can afford to.
As a formerly young woman who when young thought a manual was cool to drive, I can only agree with this choice. It is _currently_ still useful to know how to drive a manual when renting cars in some other countries. And also, I don’t expect that to last forever, either.
Good times. Young people being retro, and figuring out why we decided those things actually were not worth keeping around is in fact a core component of how our decisions are solidified after being double and triple checked.