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SCantiGOP

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21. Not true

Reply to 33taw (Reply #14)

Tue Jan 20, 2026, 09:38 PM

Jan 20

Eli Lilly is one of the largest manufacturer in the world, and is a US company. The foreign companies have large insulin plants in the US. Plus, you could bring new plants in line quickly.
My daughter is both a Troy 1 diabetic and a Diabetes Nurse, so I’m pretty familiar wi the subject.

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