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California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Gotta start somewhere.
What I don’t like is that it follows the piecemeal approach that centrist liberals do where it is always too little and ineffective for the entire population which makes it mostly invisible.
“Let’s do socialism for 11% of the people while everyone else gets to pay taxes and get nothing”.
“Perfect is the enemy of the good”
Yeah no progress until we can instantly have 100% goal attainment!
Don't forget to not vote next midterms or primaries to show Newsom and the Dems we mean business!
Like I said: gotta start somewhere.
My point is that the start is so small that it allows republicans to demonize and ultimately kill it since it doesn’t help the vast majority of people.
Sometimes that may be true but neurologically, empathy is often driven by experience and most people have a relative with diabetes and many people have a diabetic relative who struggles financially with it. This would be hard to demonize.
Edit: as pointed out below, these numbers are for type 1 and 2, so the population is requiring insulin is much lower than this.
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/php/data-research/index.html
Sure, the majority of folks don't have diabetes, but come on, this affects a huge number of people, and I would bet that a vast, vast majority of people at least know someone with diabetes.
And yes, those are national whereas this is California---but it's also about changing hearts and minds. When someone from Texas, struggling to pay for their kid's insulin, learns about this, they might just question some things.
You’ve given up before you’ve even began (believe me, I know that feeling).
But don’t let your paralysis leak out to other people. If you see someone taking baby steps to make this world better, you be their cheerleader. You give them your energy so that they can take bigger strides.
And who knows, maybe in the process you’ll have taken your first baby steps too.
I'm getting really tired of defending progress from attacks by progressives.