Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker downplayed U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s push to cap the price of insulin at $35 by saying people worried about the rising cost of the drug need to “eat right.”
The exchange came near the start of the sole televised debate between the two rivals after Warnock highlighted legislation embedded in a federal climate change and healthcare bill that seeks to rein in the price of insulin.
Walker, who opposed the law, said it would fail to reduce decades-high inflation levels and said other health factors are at play.
“I believe in reducing insulin but at the same time, you gotta eat right. I know many people that’s on insulin. Unless you’re eating right, insulin is doing you no good. So you have to get food prices down and you gotta get gas down so you can go get insulin,” the GOP candidate said.
“I believe in reducing insulin, but at the same time you’ve got to eat right,” Walker said. “Because he may not know -- and I know many people that’s on insulin -- unless you’re eating right, insulin is doing you no good. So you have to get food prices down, and you’ve got to get gas down, so you can go get insulin.”
Warnock responded with disbelief.
“I think we’re hearing from my opponent tonight that it’s their fault that prices of insulin are being gouged.”
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