James Talarico
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18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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And they told me that a normal blood sugar is 100 or lower.
Mine was 900.
So I was in a state of...
diabetic ketoacidosis, which leads to coma and death without insulin.
And so I was lucky to be alive, very thankful for the doctors and nurses in Williamson County who brought me back to health.
I left the ICU to go pick up my first 30-day supply of insulin, this new medicine that I now needed to live every day.
And that 30-day supply of insulin cost me $684.
And I didn't have that kind of money.
I put it on a credit card.
And I learned that Texans like me with diabetes, particularly type 1 diabetes, are rationing
or skipping doses because they can't afford their insulin, the medicine that they need.
And so when I won that seat, I brought Democrats and Republicans together.
I took on Big Pharma and their lobbyists and we passed
a bill that caps insulin co-pays in the state of Texas at $25 per prescription.
So from 684 to 25.
That is what's possible when you bring people together to take on the special interests that have corrupted our government at our expense.
And that was just a personal example, but we're trying to do that across issue areas for Texans who desperately need a government that's going to work for them.
And there's no way in the Texas legislature for me to pass anything without Republican support.
And it's a blessing in disguise because it forces you to get outside of your comfort zone, to work with folks who you may not always agree with, and hopefully come to some kind of common ground.
You know, I...
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