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Add to all that the fact that this is an administration that very publicly promised better and cheaper health care for all Americans. Which is the real point here. Not whether Trump supporters will be marginally more or less screwed by Trump/GOP health policies.
Exactly.
Better and cheaper healthcare for everyone but those with diabetes doesn't sound like much of a plan.
Hey... I'm just making the point that those most likely to have diabetes and cost us all $245 billion/year are overwhelmingly NOT Trump voters, as was asserted by another poster in this thread.
Better and cheaper healthcare for everyone but those with diabetes doesn't sound like much of a plan.
The bad eating habits that are frequently a cause of the onset of Diabetes II are a choice. So is drunk driving. Should we subsidize the legal costs incurred by drunk drivers, too?
Hey... I'm just making the point that those most likely to have diabetes and cost us all $245 billion/year are overwhelmingly NOT Trump voters, as was asserted by another poster in this thread.
Oh, dear. Do you really not comprehend this or are you being deliberately obtuse?
I'll try again.
8% of 72% of the population (whites) is a much higher number of people (and voters) with diabetes than 16% of 1% of the population (Native American).
The states with the highest rates of diabetes voted for Trump last fall, and neither Blacks nor Native Americans are the majority in any of these states.
These are the exact same people who will be hit hardest if Trumpcare means you are on your own with diabetes because you're a fatty.
Oh, dear. Do you really not comprehend this or are you being deliberately obtuse?
Oh, I understand it perfectly well. People want to be subsidized for the consequences of their own bad choices.
And you seem to be unaware that not one State had a unanimous vote for Trump. Given that, you have to look at the demographic statistics of those with Diabetes. The demographic groups that have the highest rates of Diabetes are those which were least likely to vote for Trump.
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don't deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.
So eager to find something on Trump all commonsense has evaporated, if it was ever there.
So why is he offering medical opinions? It's so far out of bounds; he should be asked for his resignation. Alas we have a president who himself makes outlandish false statements. Americans deserve the truth from our government, not entertainment.
Oh, I understand it perfectly well. People want to be subsidized for the consequences of their own bad choices.
And you seem to be unaware that not one State had a unanimous vote for Trump. Given that, you have to look at the demographic statistics of those with Diabetes. The demographic groups that have the highest rates of Diabetes are those which were least likely to vote for Trump.
No, sadly, you don't understand it all.
The demographic groups with the highest rates of diabetes are also the fewest number of people, and thus voters.
Every Black and Native American in Mississippi could have voted against Trump and he still would have carried the state. Which means that a lot of white folks, some with diabetes, voted for him.
If this proves too difficult to grasp, then look at the folks who show up at Trump rallies. None of them look like they've missed many meals. To insist that none have diabetes is just nonsense.
Also nonsense is the notion that folks don't deserve insurance if team Trump decides they brought this on themselves via poor lifestyle choices.
The bad eating habits that are frequently a cause of the onset of Diabetes II are a choice. So is drunk driving. Should we subsidize the legal costs incurred by drunk drivers, too?
I'd like to see some data controlled for income and insured status. If you don't have enough money to eat healthfully, to what extent is bad eating a choice? If you don't have a doctor, who's going to give you proper medical advice?
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