Why has the cost of insulin grown so much?

Insulin is a need, not a want, for millions of diabetic Americans like 7-year-old Sammy Kemphues. According to the American Diabetes Association, the cost of the life-saving substance has grown exponentially since the turn of the century. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation executive director Melissa Newman joined Kristyn Hartman Wednesday in WCPO’s studio to talk about the broken system that drives insulin prices ever-upward and the actions that can be taken to fix it.