[Blue Jays]

You are 100% exactly correct, RC One! The optics are bad on this case history because a diabetic kid can be perfectly active, healthy, engaging with his or her friends...yet if insulin is not available...that same kid can be clinging to life just days later.

The other factor is *EVERYONE* in this country knows a diabetic whether family, friend, coworker, or otherwise.
Republicans would be painted as monsters by the media if they were to be shown halting insulin to a diabetic.

This is a no-win situation. Republicans would get blasted in the court of public opinion. In this example, the kid likely did nothing to influence her becoming diabetic. It was almost certainly getting dealt a lousy hand of cards in her young life.

[Marie]

Exactly. It’s like a toddler getting cancer. Just bad luck.

We have the medication to treat a child. We need to do it. Period.

[RC one]

Obamacare also changed the disproportionate share funds system. Hospitals used to receive a larger percentage of reimbursement from the government for delivering care to indigent types. Obama care moved that funding to pay for medicare expansion and it doesn’t seem to be helping anyone. Hospitals are still getting their asses kicked worse than ever by the uninsured/under insured types who use the ER as their PCP’s office.