Posted on 10/15/2022 6:46:35 AM PDT by Lower Deck
Herschel Walker, the GOP nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, said people who are worried about the high cost of insulin should “eat right” in his only debate against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Friday.
During an exchange about the economy and the high cost of living, Warnock touted his work passing legislation lowering prescription drug prices, including a $35 cap on monthly insulin costs. He noted that Walker had opposed the law, which is called the Inflation Reduction Act.
Walker responded by saying the Inflation Reduction Act had not reduced inflation. Then he argued that people who need insulin should think about eating better.
“I believe in reducing insulin but at the same time, you gotta eat right. I know many people that’s on insulin. Unless you’re eating right, insulin is doing you no good. So you have to get food prices down and you gotta get gas down so you can go get insulin,” the GOP candidate said.
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I think the now shows I’m right. Your ballot will be a long list of candidates that you probably don’t like any of them. But you’re gonna vote for the Republicans because they have the right letter after their name. Even though you know that letter means nothing. And if they win you’ll spend their entire term disappointing in how few of your values they share. And when they don’t lose in the primaries, you’ll vote for them AGAIN.
And that sucks. And that wasn’t the government we were supposed to have.
WTH is wrong about suggesting a healthy diet?
Journalists are the new BULLIES.
Can’t you just hear this little twerp, oooooo, you said people shouldn’t worry about getting their medicine.
It’s enough to make you puke.
About 10 years I was heading towards a type II diagnosis and my wife retired as an office RN and became my home care RN and dietary counselor.
The first thing she did was getting me off the carbo based diet and back to normal foods with an emphasis on fresh fruit/nuts and veggies available 24/7 on the first kitchen counter in our kitchen.
If I get hungry between meals, I grab some good stuff off of that counter..
Within 6 months I had new and healthy glucose levels, and they have stayed there.
My GLUCOSE Level for basically the last decade: 100-102 mg/dL.
I also, try to walk one mile a day with the walking sticks.
I will be 84 next month.
We believe in Herschel Walker Saying People Worried About High Insulin Costs Should ‘Eat Right’!
Well done to both you and your good lady wife!
Walker’s advice is wise, and not just for diabetes.
I have fatty liver disease. My own fault plus a genetic predisposition.
I have two older overweight liver Doctors and one older overweight Endo Dr telling me I need to lose weight to help combat. They aren’t wrong. But there is just something about fat Doctors telling you to lose weight that is kind of funny.
Huffington Post lie in their headline? Say it isn’t so, Joe.
He is right, but only in the initial sense of acuiring Type-2 diabetes, as often acquired along with oebesity/overweight conditions. After it is acquired along with obesity, ending obesity does not always represent a cure, continued medication can still be needed - depending on the individual.
So the people for whom adherence to a healthy diet as an urgent matter of health, and whose poor diet, suffused actual sugar and high-glycemic-index carbohydrates (which almost instantaneously break down into simple sugars that flood the bloodstream), has placed them in a condition of insulin resistance, are not yet chronically exposed to the high expense of
injectable insulin. Thus, they are perhaps not yet sufficiently motivated to permanently change their diet.
During the time period when their poor eating habits are gradually killing their own natural insulin production capability, by chronic overuse if you will, they are not yet dependent on an external source of injectable insulin. During this time, they cannot reasonably be expected to be sensitive to, or even concerned about, the unpredictable and seemingly chronically high cost of manufactured injectable insulin. That’s a lot of soon to be users of injectable insulin who are not worried about the consequences of their actions.
Thinking about your point, to the extent such people are barrelling toward eventual insulin dependance, eating themselves into it, if you will, we as a country would benefit, as well as they would benefit as individuals, if they were to change course
in terms of their eating habits, and thereby never became insulin dependent.
It’s just that, before their pancreas gives in from overuse, they are still functioning based on their own, natural, pancreas-created insulin, and are thus not dwelling on, are not personally concerned about, are not given toward complaining about, the “future” (to them personally) costs of external-source injectable insulin, to which they will, in short order (if they do not start eating a healthy diet), be directly or indirectly exposed as gravely ill endocrinology patients.
Very important point.
Sugary foods, or high-glycemic-index foods, are often the cheaper option, the only one that is affordable at the time.
My grocery costs keep going up while the Dims make you argue if Hershel knows diabetes. That’s the point he was making — why argue of the cost of insulin, which impacts few people, while high grocery costs impact everybody.
And, this is from HuffPo?
Why believe anything from them? Why even believe that they have ever met with HWalker?
Type I diabetics die without insulin regardless of diet, whereas Type IIs can in theory diet away any need for extra insulin. But the burden of the cost on the former could be improved by better eating by the more numerous and presently growing bodies of the latter. Reduce the insulin demand from Type IIs and the supply/demand curves would cross at a cheaper price point for the Type Is. So Walker is indirectly correct.
That’s not exactly what Walker said. Here is the quote:
Warnock said, “[Walker] said he would not have voted for the Inflation Reduction Act and I think he should tell the people of Georgia why he thinks they should have expensive insulin and why the pharmaceutical companies should be able to charge us whatever they like.” Walker bit back quickly, saying, “I believe in reducing insulin, but at the same time, you’ve got to eat, right?” He then said, “you have to get food prices down and you’ve got to get gas down, so they can go get insulin.”
“They deny they won. Said so yesterday. Now so does Walker.”
Can you understand that saying that Biden sits in the White House is a different concept than saying that Biden won? He is in fact sitting in the White House wielding the power of a president but he in fact stole the election, in other words, Trump won. But Trump is not in the White House. I mean, is this a second grader?
Not only are bad carbs often cheaper, they are also addictive. When people suddenly stop heavy intake of breads, cakes, and junk snack foods, they are prone to experience physical withdrawal symptoms. Crazy, huh?
That’s exactly what he meant considering that was the topic, to cut the cost of insulin. I can’t believe the comments here against him, thought I was redirected to some liberal site where they change the meaning of what someone says.
Agreed. Thanks.
But pancreatitis and type 1 diabetes are two very different diseases. Type 1 is an incurable autoimmune disorder.
I recall that Biden “quietly” cancelled the program almost immediately through ex order. So this is what the monster has done. People dependent on insulin has paid higher costs for almost two years so Biden can tout it as HIS program for votes in the midterms. This is criminal.
You make some very good points. But in the long run I trust Walker’s ignorance to cause less harm than that of the most informed Democrat. Walker could be steered in the right direction and offered the reasons why. I doubt destruction of the U.S. motivates him. I have no such doubts when it comes to the majority of Dem politicians.
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