[HN Gopher] Insulin will be dramatically less expensive [in 2024...
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       Insulin will be dramatically less expensive [in 2024] thanks to
       Utah's Civica RX
        
       Author : lcall
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2022-03-17 18:56 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | lcall wrote:
       | This is an interesting, nonprofit drug company that is trying to
       | resolve pharmaceutical shortages and price problems, and where
       | the founding hospital system is also a nonprofit with a very
       | good, long-term reputation (and good personal experience--their
       | intake agreement to get a blood sample drawn totaled 2 reasonable
       | pages, where the next-nearest hospital came out at 11) and have
       | generally done friendly good work for a long time as far as I can
       | tell.
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       | Wikipedia said (lightly shortened): "Civica Rx is a nonprofit
       | generic drug manufacturer .... started by national philanthropies
       | and leading US health systems. By [EO] 2019, over 45 health
       | systems representing 1200 hospitals were members of Civica.
       | Member ... pharmacists and clinicians help prioritize the
       | medications Civica makes.... By the end of 2019 Civica had 18
       | medications (28 SKUs) in production, and plans to bring over 100
       | medications to market in five years through various manufacturing
       | approaches such as partnerships, developing ANDAs, and building
       | its own manufacturing capability. ... The first shipment of
       | Civica private-label medication was vancomycin, delivered to
       | Riverton Hospital, a part of Civica founder health system
       | Intermountain Healthcare, in October 2019." (
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civica_Rx )
       | 
       | Other related links:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932233 ("The Mark Cuban
       | Cost Plus Drug Company" about which I don't know more.)
       | 
       | https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/dr...
       | (edit: thanks to pottertheotter in that HN link/discussion about
       | Mark Cuban, just above)
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       | https://civicarx.org/
        
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