Why the price of insulin is a danger to diabetics | Brooke Bennett

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The price of insulin in the US is both outrageous and deadly to those who can't live without it. Diabetes advocate Brooke Bennett shares her own struggles living with type 1 diabetes and how the astronomical cost of a life-saving drug leaves millions struggling to survive. A rallying cry for an affordable and humane livelihood for those with chronic illness.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talk's Daily, I'm Elise Hume.
0:07.6	Any type one diabetic knows how crucial insulin is to their survival.
0:11.8	In her 2022 talk from TEDx Hope College, Brooke Bennett, who was diagnosed with type one
0:16.7	at 10 years old, makes a passionately for more affordable insulin.
0:21.6	Because as she lays out, for the disadvantaged who suffer from diabetes, this life and death
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