GOP Medicaid, SSI/SSDI and SNAP Cuts Spells Death For Many Diabetics and Other Disabled Americans

Universal healthcare with prescription drug price caps would save tens of millions of diabetic Americans’ lives.

A few months ago, President Biden and Congress Democrats declared a victory over their solution to unaffordable prices for life-saving prescription drugs (like insulin) that diabetic Americans need to live. But their declared victory is deceptive.

The bill doesn’t cap the price of insulin. It caps insurance copays which only helps those fortunate to have (rapidly vanishing) stable, decent-paying middle class jobs with good health insurance, and seniors over age 65 on Medicare.

The House now has a Republican majority in 2023 that is intent on passing spending cuts to programs that will cost the lives of poor disabled and medically vulnerable Americans. About 30 million Americans are diabetic — the majority of whom (about 21 million) can’t afford private health insurance, or the insulin needed to live.

Diabetic Americans who are unable to afford health insurance and life-saving drugs for treating diabetes are charged ten times more for insulin than what people in other countries have to pay. Many diabetic Americans die…