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Stellar

(5,644 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2020, 06:20 PM Apr 2020

Minnesota House And Senate Pass 'Alec Smith' Emergency Insulin Bill.

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Minnesota House And Senate Pass 'Alec Smith' Emergency Insulin Bill. (Original Post) Stellar Apr 2020 OP

Bravo DarthDem Apr 2020 #1

DarthDem

(5,255 posts)

1. Bravo

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Tue Apr 14, 2020, 06:29 PM

Apr 2020

This is named after a young man with diabetes who couldn't afford health insurance, had a job but didn't have coverage through his employer, and aged out of his mother's plan, so he began rationing insulin. He died about a month later. He was 26.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alex-smith-died-couldnt-afford-insulin/

The for-profit health care and pharmaceutical system in this country are just sickening.

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