Thread by @RepMattGaetz

During this time of crippling inflation, high energy prices, and failed leadership from the White House, the powers that be are struggling for solutions. Unfortunately, (1/10)

the latest purported solution on the House floor today not only ignores our most salient problems confronting the American public, it subscribes to the narrow Democrat dogma of socialist-adjacent, top-down economics. H.R. 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, (2/10)

is another big government bill that claims to serve the American people by subverting basic economic theory with the proposed codification of government price controls. H.R. (3/10)

6833 would see the government mandate private and public health insurance providers to cap the price of insulin at $35. Let me be clear–Big Pharma’s market concentration and price gouging is an abuse of power to the lament of the American consumer. (4/10)

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However, Democrats have misdiagnosed the cause of higher insulin prices and issued an FDR-esque proven to fail “solution.” Insulin price increases have more to do with increased consumer demand than the bad behavior of Big Pharma, which I am quick to condemn. To be clear, (5/10)

my condolences go out to all 37.3 million Americans who have incurred type 2 diabetes in their lives or who were born with type 1 diabetes. While Democrat posturing of H.R. (6/10)

6833 victimizes insulin payees as people with an uncontrollable disease that are being taken advantage of and need Big Brother to throw them a raft, lifestyle changes en masse would expeditiously lower demand and the subsequent prices of insulin. (7/10)

90-95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which “can be prevented or delayed with healthy lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, eating healthy food, and being active.” Arbitrary price controls are no substitute for individual weight control. Since 2000, (8/10)

the number of diabetes cases in the U.S. has nearly doubled. The demand for insulin has increased and the requisite price increase has followed suit. In other words, the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase. (9/10)

While I empathize with all Americans suffering from disease and will continue to fight Big Pharma, I voted against H.R. 6833. I will not see a reemergence of FDR price controls and join the Democrats in their attempt to pave the Road to Serfdom. (10/10)