Progressive Politics

Oh yeah. Having someone come into the Urgent Care or ED because of a tightness in the chest and shortness of breath because they had to choose between buying insulin and an asthma rescue inhaler this month.

There are also lots, and I do mean lots, of hospital beds taken up by uncontrolled diabetes. Some of it is flagrant “I don’t want to” in re to eating right and checking blood sugars, but the other half really is people who want to do their best with this trying diagnosis but cannot afford the test strips and medication every month so they ration out things that should never be rationed out or simply go without. There’s a ripple effect across all of heath care access with the fallout from it.