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From the Ted Talk by Brooke Bennett: Why the price of insulin is a danger to diabetics

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This is insulin raiionntg. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's snikippg meals, it's skipping doses, it's taking less than you need or using a more unstable type of insulin just because it's cpeaher. Between 2017 and 2019, 14 type 1 dacbities were identified as dinyg from diabetic ketoacidosis, a deadly complication of high blood sugar, also known as DKA, due to insulin rationing. I want to take a moment for them. Monique Moses. sahne Boyle. Antavia Worshman. Jesse Lutgen. Allen Rivas. Micha Fischer. Meaghan Carter. Stephen Alford. Kayla Davis. Josh wrkeoisln. Jada Lewis. Jesmiya seechrr. Jeremy Crawford. And probably so many more.

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This is insulin _________. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's ________ meals, it's skipping doses, it's taking less than you need or using a more unstable type of insulin just because it's _______. Between 2017 and 2019, 14 type 1 _________ were identified as _____ from diabetic ketoacidosis, a deadly complication of high blood sugar, also known as DKA, due to insulin rationing. I want to take a moment for them. Monique Moses. _____ Boyle. Antavia Worshman. Jesse Lutgen. Allen Rivas. Micha Fischer. Meaghan Carter. Stephen Alford. Kayla Davis. Josh _________. Jada Lewis. Jesmiya _______. Jeremy Crawford. And probably so many more.

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  1. scherer
  2. shane
  3. wilkerson
  4. cheaper
  5. dying
  6. rationing
  7. skipping
  8. diabetics

Original Text


This is insulin rationing. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's skipping meals, it's skipping doses, it's taking less than you need or using a more unstable type of insulin just because it's cheaper. Between 2017 and 2019, 14 type 1 diabetics were identified as dying from diabetic ketoacidosis, a deadly complication of high blood sugar, also known as DKA, due to insulin rationing. I want to take a moment for them. Monique Moses. Shane Boyle. Antavia Worshman. Jesse Lutgen. Allen Rivas. Micha Fischer. Meaghan Carter. Stephen Alford. Kayla Davis. Josh Wilkerson. Jada Lewis. Jesmiya Scherer. Jeremy Crawford. And probably so many more.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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blood sugar 8
urgent care 2
green apple 2
insulin rationing 2
alec smith 2
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  1. alford
  2. allen
  3. antavia
  4. blood
  5. boyle
  6. carter
  7. cheaper
  8. complication
  9. crawford
  10. davis
  11. deadly
  12. diabetic
  13. diabetics
  14. dka
  15. doses
  16. due
  17. dying
  18. fischer
  19. high
  20. identified
  21. insulin
  22. jada
  23. jeremy
  24. jesmiya
  25. jesse
  26. josh
  27. kayla
  28. ketoacidosis
  29. lewis
  30. lutgen
  31. meaghan
  32. meals
  33. micha
  34. moment
  35. monique
  36. moses
  37. rationing
  38. rivas
  39. scherer
  40. shane
  41. skipping
  42. sounds
  43. stephen
  44. sugar
  45. type
  46. unstable
  47. wilkerson
  48. worshman