Someone really needs to educate themselves before speaking – PB/TK
Mick Mulvaney gets schooled about diabetes after saying it’s caused by poor lifestyle choices – By Matthew Rozsa/ May 15 2017
The American Diabetes Association is teaching Mick Mulvaney, who serves as head of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump, a valuable lesson about human biology.
On Thursday, Mulvaney told an audience at the Light Forum at Stanford University that people who get diabetes may not deserve affordable health insurance.
“That doesn’t mean we should take care of the person who sits at home, eats poorly and gets diabetes. Is that the same thing as Jimmy Kimmel’s kid? I don’t think that it is,” Mulvaney told the audience, according to a report by the Washington Examiner.
But as the American Diabetes Association pointed out in a public statement on Friday, the notion that the condition is solely caused by poor lifestyle choices is both offensive and inaccurate.
Continue to salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/2017/05/15/mick-mulvaney-gets-schooled-about-diabetes-after-saying-its-caused-by-poor-lifestyle-choices/
