Episode 700 | The Cost of Living | Insulin Rationing | Pia Klemp: The Hero We Deserve
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The cost of living in the United States is having to accept that corporations can charge exorbitant prices for life-saving medications. And now, another young adult has died from having to ration his insulin supply. Let's discuss.
Pia Klempt is the German ship captain who helped save nearly 14,000 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. While she was offered a medal celebrating her efforts, she faces 20 years in prison in Italy. Pia rejected the medal from Paris because of the hypocrisy.
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| 0:47.0 | Nicole's son Alec was 26. He died trying to ration his insulin one month after losing health care coverage. |
| 0:56.0 | Nicole was among a recent caravan of Minnesotans who traveled to Canada in search of insulin, |
| 1:02.0 | which is 10 times cheaper there than it is in the US. |
| 1:06.0 | After losing my 26-year-old son to the same situation, |
| 1:11.0 | in fighting so hard at the legislative level to pass the Alex Smith emergency and so an act. |
| 1:16.0 | And it going nowhere and telling them if they did not implement this law that we were going to lose more lives, |
| 1:22.0 | this just goes to show that we were right. |
| 1:25.7 | They were murdered. |
| 1:26.7 | They were murdered. |
| 1:27.7 | They were killed by a big pharma. |
| 1:30.4 | The cause of death should actually be on their death certificates, corporate greed. |
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