The Florida congressman said “the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.”

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_Walkening [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This is deeply in line with fiscal conservatism because before the advent of insulin, diabetics (many of them children) "just lost weight" progressively, until death.