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5/15/2017 4:30 pm  #1


Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care

Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care

By Jason Easley on Sat, May 13th, 2017 at 12:40 pm

Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don't deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.



Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don’t deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.

While speaking at Stanford University, Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney classified diabetes as a bad lifestyle choice, “That doesn’t mean we should take care of the person who sits at home, eats poorly and gets diabetes. Is that the same thing as Jimmy Kimmel’s kid? I don’t think that it is.”

If you get Type II diabetes because you listened to Republicans and rebelled against former First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to encourage healthy eating, you’re on your own.

According to the CDC, “More than 29 million Americans are living with diabetes, and 86 million are living with prediabetes, a serious health condition that increases a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. Type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes, and type 1 diabetes accounts for about 5%. The health and economic costs for both are enormous.”

The way Republicans are going to bring down the cost of health care is to not pay for care for people who have Type II diabetes.

Not surprisingly the top nine states with the highest rates of diabetes were all won by Donald Trump in 2016 presidential election.

The principle behind the Republican plan is that sick people must pay more for less coverage. Trumpcare is targeting sick people, and the next group on the list are the more than 100 million Americans who have Type II diabetes or are pre-diabetic.

Last edited by Goose (5/15/2017 4:31 pm)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

5/15/2017 5:20 pm  #2


Re: Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care

I can not wrap my head around how someone could say such things.

 Or think such things.

 It's like they don't realize they're talking about people.

 Actual live people.

 People who have people who love them. People who would have to watch as a loved one leaves this world one piece at a time.  

  What the hell is this thing? It looks human but it has no soul.


If you make yourself miserable trying to make others happy that means everyone is miserable.

-Me again

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5/15/2017 6:41 pm  #3


Re: Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care

Goose wrote:

Not surprisingly the top nine states with the highest rates of diabetes were all won by Donald Trump in 2016 presidential election.

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Those poor people believed that Trump was going to help them,,,,,
 


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
     Thread Starter
 

5/15/2017 6:48 pm  #4


Re: Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care

Maybe this is why:

Trump thinks exercise is bad for you, depletes limited energy

May 15, 2017
President Trump apparently has a dim view of exercise, seeing it as a drain on the human body’s limited energy.

“Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy,” wrote Evan Osnos of the New Yorker in a profile of Trump in the magazine’s May 8 edition.

Osnos is not the first writer to reference Trump’s battery theory of human energy. The Washington Post’s Mike Kranisch and Marc Fisher elaborated on Trump’s hypothesis in their biography, “Trump Revealed,” from August 2016.

“After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, ‘You are going to die young because of this.’”

It’s hard to say how Trump’s minimal exercise routine is treating him because he has not released his health records. Instead, the former reality TV show star shared a letter summarizing the results of a recent physical from his longtime physician, Harold Bornstein, on “The Dr. Oz Show.”

Bornstein’s office declined a request for comment from Yahoo News.

The Washington Post reports that Trump is overweight; he is nearly obese at a minimum and possibly quite obese.

Trump also put down exercise while campaigning in September 2015. According to a profile for the New York Times, Trump explained that he thinks exercise might actually do more harm than good.

“‘All my friends who work out all the time — they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster,’ he said. He exerts himself fully by standing in front of an audience for an hour, as he just did. ‘That’s exercise.’”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the many health benefits of exercise outweigh the risks of injury, and aerobic activity of moderate intensity is safe for most people.

The medical community agrees that physical activity helps to maintain a healthy weight, strengthens bones and muscles, improves mental health, increases chances of living longer and reduces the risk of a variety of ailments, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.



Apparently he doesn't exercise his brain either.

I told you the guy is a genius.

 

5/15/2017 7:52 pm  #5


Re: Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care

This whole administration is one fustercluck !!!


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

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