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Consumer Confidential: For God's sake, Mr. President, don't inject yourself with insulin

Imagine if President Trump expressed surprise about how devastating cancer can be for millions of patients and their families. Imagine if he went on to muse, almost playfully, that perhaps he should give chemotherapy a try.

Now you understand the mixture of stunned astonishment and dismay I felt, as a person with Type 1 diabetes, after Trump said the other day that maybe he should inject himself with insulin.

"I don't use insulin. Should I be? Huh?" he said at a White House event to announce a $35 cap on copays by Medicare beneficiaries for the lifesaving

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