{"id":1720551,"date":"2022-11-01T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720551"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:34:29","slug":"biden-claims-he-spoke-to-insulin-inventor-theres-just-one-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-spoke-to-insulin-inventor-theres-just-one-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Claims He Spoke To Insulin Inventor. There\u2019s Just One Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-claims-he-spoke-to-insulin-inventor-theres-just-one-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> claimed on Tuesday that he spoke with the doctor who invented insulin \u2014 a doctor who was so selfless that he refused to patent the drug and profit from its use \u2014 but Dr. Frederick Banting died nearly two years before the president was born.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden spoke about what his administration had been doing to lower health care costs for American families, touting his efforts to specifically bring down the cost to consumers for prescription drugs like insulin \u2014 and he claimed to have spoken with the doctor who invented it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden claims that he spoke to the man who invented insulin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLjIZ1jPdE\">pic.twitter.com\/FLjIZ1jPdE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1587525101079203843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many of you know somebody with diabetes? Needs insulin?\u201d Biden asked as he paced back and forth behind the lectern. \u201cWell, guess what? And \u2026 when we \u2026 when Debbie and I passed this law, it included everybody \u2014 not just seniors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, what happened was, we said okay, you know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes? Cost,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cIt was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone. I spoke to him, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Dr. Frederick Banting, who was one of the doctors who discovered insulin in 1921 \u2014 refused to put his name on the patent \u2014 passed away in February of 1941. Joe Biden was not even born until November of 1942 \u2014 some 21 months later.<\/p>\n<p>Banting received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1923 following his discovery. His assistant, Dr. Charles Best, was a medical student at the time and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/4\/3\/18293950\/why-is-insulin-so-expensive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assisted<\/a> with the discovery. He did put his name on the patent, along with Dr. James Bertram Collip, who helped refine it, but the two sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1.<\/p>\n<p>All three believed that it would not be ethical for them to take profits from something that could potentially save thousands or even millions of lives.<\/p>\n<p>Physiologist John MacLeod, who also chose not to be named on the patent, played a role in the discovery, but had passed away in 1935.\u00a0While both Drs. Collip and Best were still living after Biden was born, he ruled them out as the ones he spoke to because they did ultimately put their names on the patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that he spoke with the doctor who invented insulin \u2014 a doctor who was so selfless that he refused to patent the drug and profit from its use \u2014 but Dr. Frederick Banting died nearly two years before the president was born. 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