This is pretty upsetting, having family with type one (genetic, body does not create insulin at all) diabetes. The fact is more than 1 in 4 insulin users will never not need insulin no matter how much weight they lose, and even among t2 diabetics, many will never not have t2 diabetes because it has a huge genetic component as well.
Without insurance their insulin would cost $950 a month.
A long time ago in a shit town far far away, I spent a brief time contracting for Lilly UK. They had just settled a lawsuit out of court in the US and flew some bigwig in to the UK office to do a rally-the-troops meeting, which contained a phrase that stuck with me ever since:
:gulag: