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Why insulin prices can ignore ordinary shopping rules

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When a product has entirely inelastic demand, buyers simply cannot walk away. You can double or triple the cost of life-saving medicine, and the patient has no choice but to surrender their funds. It is a textbook example of captive markets, proving that the concept of 'shopping around' is an illusion when biology holds you hostage.

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