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Burnie Sanders chartered a bus to take people who need insulin to Canada, where it cost $36 instead of over ten times more. It would be nice if a progressive billionaire chartered monthly buses to Canada and Mexico to make such trips.

People are born with Type I diabetes and cannot be cured.

EdEarl 8 July 30
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Great idea! Maybe Tom Steyer could do it!

Of course Medicare For All is the right solution. For the time being, I hope someone will take pity on those Type I diabetics that cannot afford almost $400 for insulin.

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If only more ‘deep pocket’ people would do more than send...’good wishes and get well soon,’ rhetoric!

Except the manufacturers will continue to charge as much as they can. Price controls seem to be the only answer.

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People aren't born with type 1 but it starts really young, I think avg age of onset is in puberty, but there's some older and some younger

Yes, but thought to have a genetic or partially genetic cause.

@EdEarl there's a genetic predisposition but it's pretty mild. Most type 1s have no family history. It's more like the tendency to be unusually tall- no genetic test for it, and hard to predict, but runs in families. But its much less common and even harder the predict. Type 2 (adult onset, often blamed in dket) has a much stronger genetic link than type 1.

@EdEarl [diabetes.org]. The incidence of type2 is hard to tease out, relative to genetics, because of other risk factors like poor diet, smoking, etc... thatr also "run in families" but the stat I've heard most is that having a first degree relative within type2, raises your risk about 1/3. Looking at two families with equal diets and lifestyles, some families don't get diabetes at all, and some, everyone does. There's a genetic component but it's hard to specify

@MarkiusMahamius I/ve Type 2, and my Mother's Father had it too. He died of complications, but in the 50's I control my diabetes closely, and losing weight will help. I'm now down 138 lbs from my all time high weight, and still must lose lots more, about 150 lbs.

@EdEarl serious admiration!

@MarkiusMahamius Thanks, but the hard part was changing what I ate. Since then, my body wants to lose weight, it isn't hungry as it was on my familial diet and my fast food variation of it. Short fasts, up to 24 hours have been easy; occasionally I'm hungry, but ignore for a bit and it's over. However, changing what I ate was a bitch that took years, mainly because I didn't believe I could do it. Believe you can change what you eat, and you too can lose weight; it only takes replacing one stubborn habit for another.

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