Thread by @DrEricDing

UPDATE—Just learned that Eli Lilly executives are raging and furious at losing $20 billion in market cap from this stunt with @TwitterBlue. It’s too bad they don’t see their own damn insulin price gouging as the actual problem. Karma @LillyPad, karma.

2) let this sink in— “Eli Lilly’s current estimated markup on Humalog between 4,359% and 5,977%.”— that’s 43x-60x price gouging markup!!!

teenvogue.com/story/insulin-…

3) Eli Lilly’s insulin products sold $878 million in one quarter alone recently. Again lilly’s main insulin is at 43-60x price markup! It’s almost all profit!

Lilly, Novo & Sanofi together supply 100% of all insulin in the US, and 90% of entire world!
investors.com/news/technolog…

4) Don’t get mad about gas ⛽️ prices. Get raging mad and serious about insulin price gouging.

5) Never forget the 193 people in congress who voted against price cap on insulin. It’s effing life and death.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1516051637592330246

6) Insulin is off patent now. But pharma has patent hacked their way to keep charging over $300 a vial in the US… all while it is just $20-30 a vial in Canada. There is no excuse it should be that much higher in US.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1390128730576760833

7) this mom’s video still makes me cry every time I watch it. People shouldn’t have to choose to put food on table versus insulin!!!

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1349405447988588545

8) the US has the highest rate of people skipping their medicine doses because they can’t afford it. Insulin price gouging is the main driver.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1349408737937813507

9) this topic is personal to me—family members have diabetes, and I was a diabetes epidemiologist once upon a time. I’m gonna have more to say on this in my newsletter this weekend. Please subscribe (free):

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10) hell yes @BernieSanders burns Eli Lilly’s disgusting profiteering. @LillyPad deserves all the shame in the world for their insulin price gouging.

11) Eli Lilly’s CEO David A. Ricks made $19 million in 2021, up from <$15 million in 2017. His 2022 is reportedly even higher well over 20 million. ➡️ BLOOD 🩸 MONEY.

12) In the world of drugs, do NOT be a Martin Shkreli or Eli Lilly… ➡️be a Jonas Salk (polio shot inventor) and Frederick Banting (insulin inventor).

💡Salk and Banting both donated their invention for **free** for all mankind. Saving lives should be paramount >>> profit.

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14) Eli Lilly deserves it. “This is almost like a symbol of the public rage in many ways: the market realized that there are people who want to come out at Eli Lilly with pitchforks” for their price gouging.
semafor.com/article/11/11/…