Trump asks diabetic seniors to repay him w/ votes just hours after Kellyanne Conway insisted insulin

[Celerity]

plan not about politics

'I don't use insulin. Should I be?' non-diabetic president asks in latest bizarre comment

https://www.independent.co.uk/us-election-2020/trump-speech-today-insulin-plan-diabetes-coronavirus-2020-election-a9533841.html


President Donald Trump gestures to people in the audience after an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden White House, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. 'I don’t use insulin. Should I be?' he asked at the event

Donald Trump wants older voters with diabetes to repay him in November for a deal his administration struck to lower their insulin costs, even though a top aide hours earlier said the move was not about politics. "I hope the seniors are going to remember it because Biden is the one who put us in the jam. They were incompetent," he said of former Vice President Joe Biden and his former Obama administration teammates. (Mr Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.)

The president made the remark during an afternoon Rose Garden event during which he announced a deal with insulin producers that will make health plans available to Medicare recipients with capped $35 copay for seniors with diabetes. With the comment, the always politically minded Mr Trump broke with what one of his top counselors, Kellyanne Conway, told reporters on a call earlier in the day.

"We're talking about policy today at the White House, not politics," Ms Conway said on a call previewing the insulin price announcement. "The timing really is geared toward open enrollment," and not the 2020 election, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Director Seema Verma said on the same briefing call with reporters.

Lower drug prices, especially for older Americans, long has been one of bipartisan agreement, though congressional Republicans and the White House have been unable to strike a deal with Democrats. They did come to terms on 2018 legislation that Mr Trump signed into law aimed at helping patients obtain information to cheaper drug options from their pharmacist.

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[vlyons]

1. It's suicide for a non-diabetic to take insulin

When I was in college years ago, a friend commited suicide by injecting insulin. My own brother was a diabetic, who had several blackouts and eventually died, when he didn't get his insulin dose just right. Dimwit is such an idiot.

[elleng]

2. 'Dimwit' is paying off diabetic seniors on medicare.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. A hospital here nearly killed my mother's friend

by injecting him with insulin when he wasn't diabetic.

We think it was deliberate too because it was their "policy" for elderly pneumonia patients with dementia. They either didn't want him leaving alive, or they didn't ever want him coming back for medical treatment.

[GaYellowDawg]

5. It sure is.

High blood glucose will kill you over years. Low blood glucose can kill you in hours. I have overshot the mark on insulin and had my blood glucose drop as low as 36 a couple of times. Fortunately, there was candy in the house and I got it back up pretty quickly, but hypoglycemia is scary and it even kind of snuck up on me both times. I noticed I was feeling a little bad, then all of a sudden it was cold shaking hands, heart fluttering, sweating profusely, and seeing white blooms in my vision.

Trump is just incredibly ignorant. I don't know how he's escaped Type 2, with his dietary habits, lack of exercise, and weight issues.

[Skittles]

6. my mum mixed her dose with a dose meant for my autistic brother

paramedics were called

insulin is nothing to joke around about, Trump is such a fucking MORON

[Tactical Peek]

3. Sarah Cooper - Should I take insulin?

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

8. +100000

or

[Scarsdale]

7. Since he never gets anything

right, I wondered if he is "flipping the bird" in that photo? I did not think it was possible, but is he looking uglier than usual these days? Those racoon eyes are laughable. I guess there is nobody in his circle with guts enough to tell him his makeup is looking clownish these days. Does Ms. McAninny apply it now?

[Vinca]

9. I think he should take insulin . . . a good, healthy dose. More than 1 shot if necessary.

[Frustratedlady]

10. Is that reverse quid pro quo?

I cut your cost for insulin, you vote for me?