There is nothing more essential to life than food and water, would it make sense then to take the prices off everything at the store? What's more important, eating or how much it costs?
Sanders and other leftists have identified genuine problems with our economy and country. The shrinking middle class, cronyist corporations that stifle competition, big banks that make us pay for their mistakes and reap all the reward, a broken healthcare system, and skyrocketing housing prices. Bernie and his buddies just want to punish people and impose industrial policy (communism) on business as a solution. That’s never worked. We need to dismantle the government incentives and structures that lead to cronyism in the first place. The continuum is: if it’s moving: tax it, if it keeps moving: regulate it, if it stops moving: subsidize it. We’re past part 3 and he just wants to start the cycle again. These enormous companies that no one can dislodge, and broken systems exist because of government intervention, protectionism, and subsidies.
I hate to break it to you but I think that the real answer is what senility has done to your sense of self-awareness.
I've got an experiment we've done the last couple months. Our dog has diabetes, blood tests are indeed cheaper than the human versions but the insulin is about 2.5 times the human version.
Mongo, If you are using test strips similar to what humans use I have a spare meter and at least 100 test strips (if not more) that I can send your way. I switched to a pump which has proprietary stuff and if it saves you a few bucks I am more than happy to send any supplies I have your way.