Price Check on Aisle 4

The price of the insulin for Willow has almost doubled in less than two years, sigh.

• Mar 1, 2012: $169.00
• July 16, 2012: $185.67
• Nov 13, 2012: $196.44
• April 11, 2013: $215.25
• Sep 3, 2013: $265.62
• Dec 20, 2013: $306.25

Bloomberg has more, from August '13:

“There isn’t a focus on cost-benefit in the U.S.,” Mark Purcell, an analyst at Barclays Plc, said in an interview. “You’ve only got, effectively, two players in the market so it’s a classic supply-and-demand cycle; and the demand is huge.”