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					Originally Posted by scottw  how is this "punish" ? 
"pay more for insulin instead of healthy food" is a huge assumption and probably not even close to reality
 
 "Is this the conservatives position" and as usually you invent stuff and try to ascribe it to someone to fit your narrative 
 
you should have gone with "so kill all the diabetics in the country and take their stuff"..."is this the conservatives position?"   | 
	
 First veterans now insulin users 
Other than they denied Biden a small win . who did they protect?   I doubt this added to the national deficit or added to inflation .
Yet republicans have complained about gas and oil taxes in the same bill   Even while Recent second-quarter earnings reports proffered eye-popping figures: BP posted second-quarter profits worth $8.5 billion, its biggest windfall in 14 years. ExxonMobil went one further — its $17.9 billion in net income was its largest-ever quarterly profit. U.S. company Chevron, London-based Shell and France’s TotalEnergies also recorded blockbuster results. Put together, these five major companies made $55 billion this past quarter, as hundreds of millions of people around the world bore the brunt of surging prices at the pump.
You claim most are doing it to themselves
I guess theirs many different ways you read that?  Other than assigned blame . 
Top state for diabetes , Red states and their gullible base will cheer we’re owning the libs 
1	wWest Virginia	15.7%
2	BAlabama	15.0%
3	YMississippi	14.6%
4	RLouisiana	14.3%
5	pTennessee	14.2%
6	nSouth Carolina	13.6%
7	CArkansas	13.2%
8	QKentucky	13.1%
9	jOklahoma	13.0%
9	qTexas	13.0%
11	HDelaware	12.7%
11	aNorth Carolina	12.7%
Individual poverty increased the odds of having diabetes for both Whites and Blacks. Living in a poor neighborhood increased the odds of having diabetes for Blacks and poor Whites.
I know I made up buy insulin or buy healthier food   That’s never a choice 
The cost of insulin for patients with insurance ranges from $334 to $1,000 a month,  to 35.00 that’s huge 
And of course you can’t control how that savings will be used
I am sorry Scott that my narratives actual include facts 
And the facts are Diabetes are a cash cow for big pharma?  Aka donors 
Drug industry lobbyists viewed Republicans’ control of the Senate as critical to the industry’s interests.
top money getters. Republicans, like Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) — the GOP leaders of the Senate and House, respectively — also ranked in the top 15 of all recipients.
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