CNN reports:
Walker, when asked by the moderator if the federal government should step in to make sure everyone has access to health care, began a confusing non-response.
“Well, right now, people have coverage for health care. It’s according to what type of coverage do you want. Because if you have an able-bodied job, you’re going to have health care,” he said. “But everyone else – have health care is the type of health care you’re going to get. And I think that is the problem.”
Walker continued to say that Warnock wants people to “depend on the government,” while he wants “you to get off the government health care and get on the health care he’s got.” To note: Warnock, as a US Senator, is on a government health care plan.
PolitiFact reports:
Although millions of Americans do secure health insurance through an employer, “not all workers are offered employer-sponsored coverage or, if offered, can afford their share of the premiums,” according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit that studies health care policy. Overall, the foundation says, “most people who are uninsured are nonelderly adults and in working families.”
The Huffington Post reports:
Herschel Walker, the GOP nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, said people who are worried about the high cost of insulin should “eat right” in his only debate against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Friday.
“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.
Asked by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) to explain why he would vote against lowering insulin costs, Herschel Walker (R) seems to blame people with diabetes for their condition:
“You gotta eat right.”
He also says gas to is too expensive to drive to the pharmacy to pick up insulin. pic.twitter.com/6gu6VZU1jL
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) October 14, 2022
Herschel Walker (R) calls for Americans to “get off the government health care and get on the health care [Warnock’s] got.”
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), like all senators, has a government-provided health care plan. pic.twitter.com/o8NxJCWjo0
— The Recount (@therecount) October 14, 2022