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.
The entire debate around insulin prices is the most blatant example of the harm capitalism does in the developed world to be honest. Insulin is so cheap to make in bulk, people will literally die if they don't get it and yet there's still a large number of policy makers who want to let insurance companies and drug manufacturers price gouge people for it. Coupled with the fact that diabetes is if anything more prevalent among people who don't have the money to afford it, it really is a microcosm of how viscious and evil capitalism is.