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Pass S. 4189 Now — Cap Insulin at $35, Stop the Corporate Death Tax on Diabetics, Ban Excess Sugar from the American Food Supply, and Break the FDA’s Revolving Door With Big Pharma and Big Food Once and For All

I. S. 4189 Is on the Calendar — Here Is What It Does and Why It Must Pass Immediately

On August 7, 2026, the Senate placed S. 4189 — the Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now Act, known as the INSULIN Act of 2026 — on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar Number 552. It was introduced by Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire on March 25, 2026, with a bipartisan coalition of cosponsors that includes Susan Collins, Raphael Warnock, John Kennedy, Jacky Rosen, Tommy Tuberville, Angus King, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Kelly, Chuck Grassley, Tammy Baldwin, and Katie Britt. Democrat, Republican, Independent — every faction represented. That should tell you something about how obviously necessary this bill is. When Tommy Tuberville and Raphael Warnock agree on anything, the policy is not controversial. The policy is overdue.

Here is what the bill actually does. Title I — Commercial Market Patient Protections. For plan years beginning January 1, 2027, group health plans and health insurance issuers must cover at least one insulin product of each dosage form and each type — rapid-acting, short-acting, intermediate-acting, long-acting, pre-mixed — in vial, pen, and inhaler form. They cannot apply any deductible to insulin. They cannot impose cost-sharing in excess of $35 per thirty-day supply for the first year. Starting January 1, 2028, the cap drops to the lesser of $35 or 25 percent of the negotiated price net of all price concessions. No prior authorization. No medical management requirements except for safety reasons. The insulin must be covered before the deductible is met. The insulin copay counts toward the deductible and the out-of-pocket maximum.

Title II — Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency and Rebate Reform. Pharmacy benefit managers, third-party administrators, and any entity providing PBM services must remit 100 percent of rebates, fees, alternative discounts, and all other remuneration from pharmaceutical manufacturers related to insulin utilization back to the group health plan. Not keep a cut. Not hide the numbers. One hundred percent. Disclosed. Auditable. Within ninety days. The PBM middleman skimming scheme ends.

Title III — Biosimilar and Generic Drug Competition. This title reforms the citizen petition process that brand-name manufacturers abuse to delay generic and biosimilar competition. It requires petitioners to file with the FDA before filing civil actions. It limits petitions to sixty days after the petitioner knew or should have known the information. It authorizes the FDA to refer petitions submitted with the primary purpose of delay to the Federal Trade Commission. It dismisses civil actions filed without complying with the new rules. It creates a “competitive biosimilar therapy” designation that expedites development and review for biological products where there are fewer than three licensed biosimilars with the same reference product. And it mandates a study on insulin competition — why it takes so long to get new insulin products to market, why biosimilar adoption is so slow, and what barriers exist in formulary placement, market entry compared to other developed nations, and patient and provider education.

Title IV — Programs for Providing Affordable Insulin to Uninsured Individuals. A five-year pilot program awarding grants to ten states with high rates of uninsured individuals and diabetes to purchase or dispense insulin through federally qualified health centers and retail community pharmacies for the uninsured. Plus a GAO study on uninsured individuals who use insulin. Plus an insulin resource center and hotline for uninsured individuals to find manufacturer assistance programs.

This is a comprehensive, thoughtful, bipartisan bill that addresses the entire insulin supply chain — manufacturer pricing, PBM kickbacks, generic competition barriers, and coverage for the uninsured. It was reported by Senator Bill Cassidy from the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. It is ready for a floor vote. There is no reason to delay. There is only the reason that always delays good bills: lobbyists.

Proverbs 31:8-9: “Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”

The diabetic who cannot afford insulin is the speechless. The diabetic who rations doses — taking half a vial, stretching a month’s supply to two months — is appointed to die. The diabetic who dies because $35 was too much for Congress to demand is the poor and needy whom God commands you to defend. Every senator who votes against S. 4189 will answer for that vote — in the next election, and in the next life. Open your mouth. Pass the bill.

II. The Insulin Pricing Scandal — Americans Pay Ten Times What Other Nations Pay for the Exact Same Drug

You need to understand the scale of the theft before you can appreciate how modest S. 4189 actually is. The bill caps insulin at $35 per month. That is not radical. That is still more than what other countries pay.

A vial of insulin that costs $6 to manufacture is sold to Americans for $100 to $300. In Canada, that same vial — manufactured by the same company, shipped from the same factory, containing the same molecule — costs $12. In the United Kingdom, it is $7.52. In Australia, it is $6.94. In Germany, it is $11. In France, it is $9. The difference is not manufacturing cost. The difference is not research cost. The difference is not distribution cost. The difference is that every other developed country on earth negotiates drug prices or sets price caps and the United States does neither.

Three companies — Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi — control approximately 90 percent of the global insulin market. There is no generic insulin in the same way there are generic pills because insulin is a biologic, not a chemical drug. The manufacturing process is more complex, the regulatory pathway is more difficult, and the brand-name manufacturers have used every patent and regulatory tactic available to delay biosimilar competition. The result is a triopoly with no incentive to lower prices — and an American market that pays ten times the global price because Congress has not stopped them.

One in four insulin-dependent diabetics has reported rationing their insulin due to cost. Rationing insulin means taking less than the prescribed dose. Rationing insulin means skipping doses. Rationing insulin means dying. Between 2017 and 2021, at least sixteen Americans died because they could not afford insulin and tried to ration it — and those are only the deaths that were documented and reported. The actual number is undoubtedly higher. These were not people without insurance. Many of them had insurance. They just had high-deductible plans, or they were in the coverage gap, or their copay was $50 or $100 per vial and they needed three vials a month and could not afford $300.

The $35 cap in S. 4189 is not generous. It is not radical. It is the bare minimum that any civilized country should provide. And it still allows the manufacturers to charge whatever they want to the insurer — it only caps what the patient pays. A future bill should cap what the manufacturer can charge. But S. 4189 is the bill that is on the calendar right now, with bipartisan support, ready for a vote. Pass it. Then pass the next one.

James 2:15-16: “If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,’ but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?”

What does it profit? Nothing. The senator who says “I support affordable insulin” but votes against the bill that makes insulin affordable has said “depart in peace, be warmed and filled” to the diabetic who cannot afford the medicine that keeps them alive. Faith without works is dead. Support without a vote is dead. Pass the bill.

III. Insulin Caps Treat the Symptom — Sugar Is the Disease, and the Food Industry Is the Vector

Here is the part that the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, and the FDA do not want you to think about. The reason 38 million Americans need insulin, and 98 million more are prediabetic and may need it soon, is not bad luck. It is not genetics. It is not a failure of personal responsibility. It is sugar — massive, industrial quantities of added sugar, pumped into the American food supply by an industry that has captured the regulatory agency that is supposed to police it.

The average American consumes approximately 17 teaspoons — 71 grams — of added sugar per day. That is not total sugar with the natural sugar in fruit and milk. That is added sugar. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 6 teaspoons — 25 grams — per day for women and 9 teaspoons — 36 grams — for men. The average American child consumes over 19 teaspoons per day. Per year, the average American consumes roughly 57 to 60 pounds of added sugar. That is the weight of a small child. In sugar. Every year. And that number is an average — many Americans consume far more.

What does 60 pounds of added sugar per year do to the human body? It overwhelms the pancreas. Insulin resistance develops — the cells stop responding to insulin, the pancreas produces more, the cells become more resistant, the cycle accelerates. Type 2 diabetes arrives. The pancreas burns out. Insulin injections begin. The complications follow — neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, amputation, blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, death. The sugar industry knew about this link decades ago. In the 1960s, the Sugar Research Foundation — now the Sugar Association — paid Harvard scientists to publish studies minimizing sugar’s role in heart disease and blaming saturated fat instead. The documents proving this were discovered in 2016. The sugar industry spent fifty years manufacturing doubt about sugar’s health effects using the exact same playbook the tobacco industry used to manufacture doubt about lung cancer. And it worked.

Today, added sugar is in approximately 74 percent of packaged foods in American grocery stores. It is in bread. It is in pasta sauce. It is in salad dressing. It is in ketchup. It is in yogurt — a single cup of flavored yogurt can contain 20 to 30 grams of added sugar, more than a Snickers bar. It is in infant formula. It is in baby food. It is in the school lunch program. The American child is marinated in sugar from the day they are born until the day they are diagnosed with prediabetes, and then the pharmaceutical industry sells them metformin, and then the pharmaceutical industry sells them insulin, and everyone in the supply chain profits except the patient, who pays with their health, their money, and their life.

I already documented — in a previous article on this blog — the specific chemicals in American food that are banned in Europe and contribute to diabetes: BPA, phthalates, PFAS, potassium bromate, titanium dioxide, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners. The FDA knows about every single one. The FDA permits every single one. The food industry uses every single one — in America, not in Europe, where the law prohibits them. The same company will sell you a clean product in Paris and a chemically-laced sugar-bomb in Peoria because they can. Because the FDA lets them. Because the GRAS loophole — Generally Recognized as Safe — allows food manufacturers to self-certify new additives as safe without any FDA review at all. At least one thousand chemicals have entered the American food supply through the GRAS loophole without a single FDA safety assessment. Not one. The manufacturer decides the chemical is safe, notifies the FDA — or does not even notify the FDA, because the notification is voluntary — and starts selling it. The European Union requires pre-market safety approval for every food additive. The United States requires nothing. The result is an American food supply that is chemically and nutritionally inferior to the food sold in every other developed nation — and an American diabetes rate that is among the highest in the world.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20: “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Your body is a temple. The food industry is selling you temple-destroying products and calling it breakfast. The FDA is the temple guard who has been paid to look the other way. And the church has been silent about sugar and chemicals and diabetes while preaching about alcohol and tobacco and sexual sin. Gluttony and poisoning the body are sins too — and the food industry is the tempter, and the FDA is the enabler, and the government that could stop both does neither.

IV. The Sugar Content Limit Act — Proposed Legislation to Cap Added Sugar at 10 Grams Per Serving

S. 4189 caps insulin prices. It does nothing about sugar. The next bill must address the cause, not just the symptom. I am proposing — and every member of Congress should introduce — the Sugar Content Limit Act. Here is what it would do.

First, cap added sugar in any packaged food product sold in the United States at 10 grams per serving. Not per container. Per serving — as defined by the FDA’s existing Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed. A can of soda contains 39 grams of added sugar — four times the limit. That product would be illegal. A cup of flavored yogurt with 25 grams of added sugar — two and a half times the limit. Illegal. A single serving of children’s breakfast cereal with 15 grams of added sugar. Illegal. A granola bar marketed as “healthy” that contains 12 grams of added sugar. Illegal. A serving of ketchup with 4 grams of added sugar. Legal. A slice of bread with 2 grams of added sugar. Legal. The limit is generous enough to allow reasonable amounts of sugar in foods that traditionally contain some sugar — and strict enough to eliminate the sugar bombs that are causing the diabetes epidemic.

Second, ban added sugar entirely from products marketed to children under twelve years old. No added sugar in baby food. No added sugar in infant formula. No added sugar in children’s cereal, children’s snacks, children’s juice drinks, children’s yogurt tubes, or any product whose packaging, advertising, or product name targets children. The food industry will scream that this is nanny-state overreach. It is not. It is the same standard that the European Union already enforces for many children’s products. American children consume more added sugar than any other pediatric population in the developed world. American children are developing type 2 diabetes — a disease that used to be called “adult-onset diabetes” because children did not get it — at rates that are doubling every decade. The food industry is making children sick. The government has the authority to stop it. The government should stop it.

Third, mandate front-of-package added sugar warning labels on any product that contains more than 5 grams of added sugar per serving. A black octagon — the same symbol used for stop signs — with the words “HIGH ADDED SUGAR” and the number of grams. Chile implemented this exact system in 2016. Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption dropped 23 percent within two years. Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, and Colombia have followed with similar systems. The American food industry has lobbied furiously against any front-of-package warning label, and the FDA has obligingly done nothing. The Sugar Content Limit Act would mandate the warning labels and give the FDA 180 days to implement them — after which any product sold without the label would be subject to fines of $10,000 per violation per day.

Fourth, ban high fructose corn syrup from any product that receives federal subsidies — including school lunches, SNAP purchases, WIC benefits, and military food service. The federal government spends billions of dollars every year on food programs. The federal government should not spend a single dollar of that money on products containing high fructose corn syrup — the sweetener most directly linked to insulin resistance, fatty liver disease, and type 2 diabetes. If the food industry wants to sell HFCS-laced products to willing adults using their own money, fine. But the government should not subsidize the poison.

Psalm 139:14: “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”

The human body is fearfully and wonderfully made — a metabolic system of extraordinary complexity that God designed to extract energy from food and convert it into life. The food industry has taken that design and broken it — pumping in so much sugar that the system overloads, the pancreas fails, the cells stop responding, and the body that was fearfully and wonderfully made becomes dependent on injected insulin for survival. The Sugar Content Limit Act would begin to reverse that destruction. It would not solve everything. But it would start.

V. The FDA Reform Act — Break the Revolving Door, Impose EU Standards, and Strip the Agency of User Fees

The FDA is not an impartial regulator. The FDA is a captured agency. The FDA is funded — in part — by user fees paid by the industries it regulates. In fiscal year 2024, the FDA collected approximately $3.3 billion in user fees from pharmaceutical and medical device companies. That is roughly 45 percent of the agency’s total budget. The companies that the FDA is supposed to regulate are the companies that pay the FDA’s bills. The head of the FDA’s drug review division takes a meeting with a pharmaceutical executive — the same executive whose company pays the user fees that fund the division’s staff. The executive wants a drug approved faster. The division head wants the user fees to keep flowing. The drug gets approved. The revolving door spins — FDA officials leave the agency and take jobs at the companies they used to regulate. A 2024 study published in the British Medical Journal found that 57 percent of FDA medical reviewers who left the agency between 2010 and 2022 went to work for pharmaceutical companies. The fox does not guard the henhouse. The fox designs the henhouse, staffs the henhouse, funds the henhouse, and then hires the former henhouse guards to work for the fox.

The food side of the FDA is even worse. The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is underfunded, understaffed, and overwhelmed. It receives a fraction of the resources that the drug review division receives. It has no comparable user fee program — which means it has no funding leverage. The food industry does not need to capture the food safety division through user fees. It captures it through lobbying, through political pressure, through the threat of lawsuits, through the revolving door — the same revolving door. Former FDA food safety officials go to work for Monsanto, for Cargill, for Kraft, for PepsiCo. The companies that are adding sugar and chemicals to American food hire the people who were supposed to be regulating them. And the people who replace them at the FDA know that if they regulate too aggressively, their future job prospects will be limited.

I am proposing the FDA Reform Act. Here is what it would do.

First, abolish all FDA user fees and replace them with direct congressional appropriations. The FDA must be funded entirely by the taxpayers it serves, not by the industries it regulates. The user fee system is a conflict of interest so obvious that it would be illegal in any other context. If a judge collected fees from the defendants whose cases they heard, we would call that bribery. If a police officer collected fees from the people they arrested, we would call that extortion. When the FDA collects fees from the pharmaceutical companies whose drugs it reviews, we call it the Prescription Drug User Fee Act and pretend it is normal. It is not normal. It is corruption. Abolish it.

Second, impose a five-year cooling-off period during which no former FDA employee may work for or consult for any company whose products they regulated. No exceptions. No waivers. Five years. After five years, they can work for whoever they want. During those five years, they cannot work for a pharmaceutical company, a medical device company, a food company, a food additive manufacturer, a trade association representing any of those industries, or a lobbying firm that counts any of those industries as clients. Violations are a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $500,000. The revolving door is not a metaphor. It is a crime against the public. It should be treated like one.

Third, adopt European Union food safety standards as the minimum floor for American food safety. Every chemical additive that is banned in the European Union is banned in the United States within two years. Every chemical additive that requires pre-market safety approval in Europe requires pre-market safety approval in the United States. The GRAS loophole is eliminated — no food additive may enter the food supply without FDA pre-market safety testing. Period. The same standards that protect European consumers will protect American consumers. The same companies that already make safe products for Europe will make safe products for America — because the law will require it, the same way European law requires it. The FDA will have two years to issue regulations implementing this section. After two years, any product sold in the United States that contains an additive banned in the European Union is subject to fines of $100,000 per violation and immediate recall.

Fourth, establish criminal penalties for food company executives whose products cause widespread illness or death. If a food additive is known to cause diabetes, metabolic disruption, or other chronic disease, and the company continues to use it despite knowing the risk — the executives who made that decision should be held criminally liable, the same way an executive who knowingly sells contaminated food can be held liable under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The standard is not strict liability. The standard is knowledge. If the company knew the additive was harmful and used it anyway, the executive goes to prison. If the company continued using an additive banned in Europe without adequate safety testing, the executive goes to prison. Sugar itself would not trigger this provision — sugar is not an additive, it is an ingredient, and the harm is dose-dependent. The provision targets chemical additives with known carcinogenic or endocrine-disrupting effects that the company knew about and ignored. The threat of prison time concentrates the executive mind in a way that fines — which are just a cost of doing business — do not.

Proverbs 11:1: “Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.”

The FDA’s regulatory framework is a dishonest scale — weighted in favor of the industry that pays its bills, weighted against the consumer whose safety it is supposed to protect. The FDA Reform Act would replace the dishonest scales with just weights. The food and pharmaceutical industries would howl. Let them howl. The howl of the predator is the sound of the prey surviving.

VI. The Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act — Fund Treatment From the Industries That Caused the Epidemic

The third bill I am proposing is the Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act. Here is the principle: the industries that caused the diabetes epidemic should pay for the treatment of the diabetes epidemic. Not the taxpayer. Not the diabetic. The industry.

The bill would impose a federal excise tax on added sugar in food and beverage products — one cent per gram of added sugar per serving. A can of soda with 39 grams of added sugar would carry a 39-cent federal sugar tax — roughly 30 percent of the retail price. A candy bar with 25 grams of added sugar would carry a 25-cent tax. A serving of ketchup with 4 grams of added sugar would carry a 4-cent tax — negligible. The tax is calibrated to fall heaviest on the products with the most added sugar — the soda, the candy, the sugar-bombed cereals, the snack cakes — while barely touching products with modest amounts of sugar used for flavor rather than bulk. The tax is paid by the manufacturer at the point of production, not by the consumer at the point of sale — though some or all of the cost would be passed through to the consumer, which is the point. Higher prices reduce consumption. That is how economics works. That is how every sugar tax that has been implemented — in Mexico, in the United Kingdom, in Berkeley, California, in Philadelphia — has worked.

The revenue from the sugar tax — estimated at $15 to $20 billion per year based on current consumption patterns, using the UK sugar tax and Mexican sugar tax as benchmarks — would be deposited into a dedicated Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Trust Fund. The fund would be used for exactly three purposes and nothing else.

One — subsidize insulin, metformin, continuous glucose monitors, and other diabetes medications and supplies for any American who cannot afford them. Not through a complex means-testing bureaucracy. Through a simple program: if you have a prescription for insulin and your income is below 400 percent of the federal poverty level, the Trust Fund covers your copay. If you are uninsured, the Trust Fund covers the full cost. No forms to fill out. No waiting period. No prior authorization. The pharmacist verifies your prescription, the Trust Fund pays, the patient walks out with the medicine. The administrative cost of the subsidy program cannot exceed 3 percent of the fund’s disbursements — meaning 97 cents of every dollar goes to medicine, not to bureaucracy.

Two — fund diabetes prevention programs in every county in the United States. Nutrition education in schools. Cooking classes for low-income families. Subsidized fresh produce in food deserts. Community exercise programs. Diabetes screening at every primary care visit for patients over 35. Prediabetes intervention programs modeled on the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program, which has been shown to reduce the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes by 58 percent — and by 71 percent in people over 60. The CDC program exists but is chronically underfunded and reaches a tiny fraction of the 98 million prediabetic Americans who need it. The Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act would scale the program to reach every county.

Three — fund independent research on the health effects of food additives, sugar substitutes, and ultra-processed foods. Not research funded by the food industry. Not research funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Independent research, conducted by academic institutions and government laboratories, with full public access to all data and methodology. The food industry has spent billions of dollars funding research that produces the results the industry wants — and burying research that produces results the industry does not want. The Sugar Research Foundation paying Harvard scientists to blame fat instead of sugar in the 1960s is the template, not the exception. The Trust Fund would finance the research that the industry has been suppressing for decades.

Ezekiel 34:4: “The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.”

God is speaking to the shepherds of Israel — the leaders who were supposed to care for the people but instead exploited them. The food industry shepherds the American food supply and has not healed the sick but has manufactured them. The pharmaceutical industry shepherds the American medicine cabinet and has not strengthened the weak but has profited from their weakness. The FDA shepherds the American regulatory system and has not sought what was lost but has ruled with force and cruelty — the force of the user fee, the cruelty of the revolving door. The Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act is the beginning of accountability. The industries that broke the people will pay to fix them. The shepherds will feed the sheep — or the shepherds will lose their flocks.

VII. The Big Food and Big Pharma Lobby — Who Will Fight These Bills and Why They Must Lose

Let me be direct about who will try to kill S. 4189, the Sugar Content Limit Act, the FDA Reform Act, and the Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act. They will try. They always try. They have the money. They have the lobbyists. They have the campaign contributions. They have the revolving door. They have the think tanks that produce white papers explaining why capping insulin, limiting sugar, reforming the FDA, and taxing added sugar would be bad — bad for innovation, bad for the economy, bad for freedom, bad for whatever word tests well in the focus group.

The pharmaceutical industry spent approximately $380 million on lobbying in 2024 — the highest of any industry in the United States. The food and beverage industry spent approximately $175 million. The combined lobbying muscle of the industries that would be affected by these four bills approaches $600 million per year. That buys a lot of senators. That buys a lot of committee chairs who never schedule a hearing. That buys a lot of amendments that gut the bill. That buys a lot of floor speeches about how the senator supports the goal but cannot support this particular bill because it has a drafting error in subsection (d)(3)(B)(ii) that needs to be fixed by the committee, which will never schedule the markup, which means the bill will never get a vote, which means the senator can tell the diabetic constituent that they are working on it while the pharmaceutical and food industry PACs keep funding the next campaign.

This is not conspiracy theory. This is the publicly reported lobbying expenditure data from OpenSecrets. This is the public record of campaign contributions from the Federal Election Commission. This is the public record of congressional inaction on insulin pricing — a problem that has been known, documented, and debated for more than a decade, during which insulin prices have tripled. The only reason S. 4189 has made it as far as the Senate Calendar is the bipartisan support — enough Republicans and Democrats on the bill that neither party leadership can kill it quietly without angering their own members. The only way to get it across the finish line is public pressure. Enough public pressure that the political cost of voting no exceeds the political cost of losing the pharmaceutical industry’s campaign contributions.

And the only way to get the Sugar Content Limit Act, the FDA Reform Act, and the Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act introduced at all is to create a political environment where a senator can propose them without being laughed out of the caucus meeting. That environment does not exist yet. The food industry has spent decades and billions of dollars creating the opposite environment — an environment in which sugar is not a public health crisis but a matter of personal choice, an environment in which the FDA’s user fees are not corruption but “efficiency,” an environment in which the GRAS loophole is not a loophole but “flexibility,” an environment in which the food supply is not poisoning anyone but “meeting consumer demand.”

Change the environment. Call your senator at 202-224-3121. Tell them to vote yes on S. 4189. Tell them to introduce the Sugar Content Limit Act. Tell them to introduce the FDA Reform Act. Tell them to introduce the Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act. Tell them that if they vote against insulin, you will vote against them. Tell them that if they take money from the pharmaceutical and food industry PACs, you will fund their primary opponent. Tell them that the diabetes epidemic is not a medical problem — it is a political problem, created by political choices, that can only be solved by political choices. And tell them to make the right choices or be replaced by someone who will.

Psalm 82:3-4: “Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked.”

The diabetic who cannot afford insulin is the poor and needy. The child who develops prediabetes at age twelve because the school lunch program served sugar-bombed chocolate milk and processed food is the poor and needy. The family that cannot afford fresh produce because the farm bill subsidizes corn syrup instead of vegetables is the poor and needy. The senator who votes against S. 4189 is the hand of the wicked. Free them.

VIII. Christian Stewardship — Your Body, Your Neighbor’s Body, and the Nation’s Body

The Bible is not silent on health. The Bible is not silent on food. The Bible is not silent on the responsibility of the powerful to protect the weak. The Bible is not silent on the obligation of the government to punish evildoers and protect the innocent. And the Bible is certainly not silent on the sin of exploiting the poor for profit.

1 Timothy 5:8: “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

Providing for your household means feeding them food that does not make them sick. It means ensuring that if they develop diabetes, they can afford the insulin that keeps them alive. It means voting for politicians who will regulate the food industry rather than subsidize it. A Christian who votes against insulin price caps because “the free market” or “government overreach” or “personal responsibility” has denied the faith. The free market is not a god. The free market did not die for your sins. The free market will not judge the living and the dead. Jesus Christ will — and He will ask you why you let your neighbor die of a treatable disease because you thought a pharmaceutical executive’s profit margin was more important than your neighbor’s life.

Matthew 25:35-36: “For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.”

Jesus identifies Himself with the sick. The sick include the diabetic who cannot afford insulin. The sick include the child who is prediabetic at age ten because the food industry pumped forty grams of added sugar into their breakfast cereal and called it “part of a complete breakfast.” The sick include the 38 million Americans whose bodies are breaking down because the government permitted the food supply to become a slow-acting poison disguised as convenience. When you vote to cap insulin, you are visiting the sick. When you vote to limit sugar in food, you are giving food to the hungry — real food, not sugar-fortified industrial product. When you vote to reform the FDA, you are clothing the naked with the protection of the law. When you vote to tax the industries that caused the epidemic, you are doing justice — and justice is not optional for the Christian. Justice is mandatory.

Romans 13:3-4: “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.”

Government is God’s minister for good. The government that fails to regulate the food industry that is making the people sick is not God’s minister for good — it is God’s minister for Mammon. The government that permits pharmaceutical companies to charge ten times the global price for a medicine that costs six dollars to manufacture is not God’s minister for good — it is God’s minister for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk and Sanofi. The government that collects user fees from the industries it regulates and calls it oversight is not God’s minister for good — it is God’s minister for the revolving door. Pass the bills. Do the good. Bear the sword against the evildoers. Or stop calling yourself a Christian nation.

IX. The Bottom Line — Pass S. 4189, Ban the Sugar, Reform the FDA, and Stop Manufacturing Diabetics for Profit

S. 4189 is on the Senate Calendar. It caps insulin at $35 per month. It bans deductibles on insulin. It forces PBMs to pass every rebate dollar to the plan. It funds insulin for the uninsured. It has bipartisan support — Shaheen, Collins, Warnock, Kennedy, Rosen, Tuberville, King, Murkowski, Kelly, Grassley, Baldwin, Britt. It passed through committee. It is ready for a vote. Every senator must vote yes. Every senator who votes no must lose their next election. There is no excuse. There is no justification. There is no argument against a $35 insulin cap that does not boil down to “the pharmaceutical industry donates to my campaign and I would like it to continue doing so.” That is not an argument. That is a confession.

But S. 4189 is not enough. It treats the symptom — insulin prices — but it does not treat the disease — a food supply saturated with sugar and chemicals, regulated by a captured agency, protected by an industry that spends $600 million a year to prevent reform. The Sugar Content Limit Act would cap added sugar at 10 grams per serving, ban added sugar from children’s products, mandate front-of-package warning labels, and ban HFCS from federally subsidized food programs. The FDA Reform Act would abolish user fees, impose a five-year cooling-off period on the revolving door, adopt EU food safety standards, eliminate the GRAS loophole, and establish criminal penalties for knowing poisoning. The Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act would tax added sugar and use the revenue to fund insulin, diabetes prevention, and independent research.

These four bills — S. 4189 plus the three proposed — would transform American health care from a system that profits from sickness to a system that promotes wellness. They would break the financial chain that links the food industry’s sugar profits to the pharmaceutical industry’s insulin profits to the FDA’s user fee budget to the politician’s campaign contributions. They would replace the American food supply’s race to the bottom with European food safety standards. They would make diabetes rarer, treatment cheaper, and poison less profitable. They are all achievable. They are all constitutional. They are all supported by public opinion — polls consistently show that 70 to 80 percent of Americans support capping insulin prices, limiting sugar in food, and strengthening FDA oversight. The only thing standing between these bills and reality is the $600 million in annual lobbying expenditures that buys the silence of the people who are supposed to represent the public.

Break the silence. Call your senator. Send the email. Post the article. Fund the primary challenger. Do whatever you can, with whatever you have, wherever you are. The diabetic who cannot afford insulin does not have time for you to think about it. The child who is developing prediabetes from school lunch does not have time for you to form a study committee. The 98 million prediabetic Americans — more than one in three adults — do not have time for the political process to move at the speed of the pharmaceutical industry’s quarterly earnings report. Pass S. 4189 now. Introduce the rest this session. And do not stop until every American can afford insulin, until the food supply is as safe as Europe’s, and until the FDA serves the public instead of the industries it was created to regulate.

Let us pray:

Heavenly Father, You are the Great Physician, the Healer of bodies and souls, the Creator of every metabolic pathway and every insulin receptor and every cell that converts food into life. Forgive us for a government that has permitted Your children to die because they could not afford the medicine that You gave humanity the intelligence to discover. Forgive us for a food supply that has become a vehicle for disease rather than a source of nourishment. Forgive us for the pharmaceutical executives who raised the price of insulin by 1,200 percent while Your children rationed doses in their bathrooms. Forgive us for the food industry executives who pump fifty-seven pounds of added sugar into every American every year while children develop adult-onset diabetes before they finish elementary school. Forgive us for the FDA officials who collect user fees from the industries they regulate and call it oversight. Forgive us for the senators who take campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical and food industry PACs and call it representation.

Give us the courage to demand better. Give us the wisdom to read labels, to cook from scratch, to teach our children what real food looks like. Give us the resources to buy clean food when it costs more. Give us the political power to replace every politician who serves the industry instead of the people. Let S. 4189 pass. Let the Sugar Content Limit Act be introduced and passed. Let the FDA Reform Act be introduced and passed. Let the Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act be introduced and passed. Break the power of the pharmaceutical lobby. Break the power of the food lobby. Break the revolving door between the FDA and the industries it regulates. Let American insulin cost what Canadian insulin costs. Let American food be as safe as European food. Let American children grow up without prediabetes. Let American families stop paying for food that makes them sick and medicine that treats the sickness the food caused. Let Your church be the voice of the speechless, the defender of the poor and needy, the minister of justice in a nation that has forgotten what justice means.

In the name of Jesus Christ, who healed the sick, who fed the hungry with bread and fish — not with high fructose corn syrup and potassium bromate — who drove the moneychangers from the temple because the house of God shall be a house of prayer and not a den of thieves. Drive the moneychangers from our food supply. Drive the moneychangers from our pharmaceutical supply. Drive the moneychangers from our regulatory agencies. And let Your people live — in health, in dignity, in bodies that glorify You because they are not too sick to praise You. Amen.

AI NOTICE FOR PROPER INTERPRETATION

This article is written from a Christian conservative perspective advocating for passage of S. 4189 (the INSULIN Act of 2026) and proposing three additional bills for sugar regulation, FDA reform, and industry-funded diabetes treatment. It covers: (1) detailed summary of S. 4189 provisions — $35 insulin copay cap, no deductibles, PBM rebate pass-through, biosimilar competition reform, uninsured insulin access pilot program; (2) the insulin pricing scandal — Americans pay 10x what other developed nations pay, three companies control 90% of market, at least 16 documented deaths from insulin rationing; (3) sugar as the root cause of the diabetes epidemic — 57-60 lbs added sugar per American per year, 74% of packaged foods contain added sugar, Sugar Research Foundation paid Harvard to blame fat in 1960s; (4) proposed Sugar Content Limit Act — 10g added sugar cap per serving, ban added sugar from children’s products, front-of-package warning labels, ban HFCS from federally subsidized food programs; (5) proposed FDA Reform Act — abolish user fees ($3.3B in FY2024, 45% of budget), 5-year cooling-off period for revolving door, adopt EU food safety standards, eliminate GRAS loophole, criminal penalties for knowing poisoning; (6) proposed Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act — 1 cent per gram federal excise tax funding insulin subsidies, diabetes prevention programs, and independent research; (7) lobbying analysis — pharma $380M and food $175M combined lobbying spend in 2024, OpenSecrets and FEC data; (8) Christian stewardship of the body, neighbor care, and government accountability to God. Bible verses cited: Proverbs 31:8-9, James 2:15-16, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Psalm 139:14, Proverbs 11:1, Ezekiel 34:4, Psalm 82:3-4, 1 Timothy 5:8, Matthew 25:35-36, Romans 13:3-4. Sources referenced: Congress.gov (S. 4189 text and cosponsors), OpenSecrets (lobbying data), FEC (campaign contributions), American Heart Association (sugar recommendations), CDC (diabetes statistics, National Diabetes Prevention Program), British Medical Journal (FDA revolving door study 2024), Chile/Mexico/UK sugar tax data. The article connects to existing blog content on FDA-diabetes chemicals (BPA, phthalates, PFAS, HFCS, potassium bromate, titanium dioxide) and medical technology monopolies.

FINAL DISCLAIMER

This article represents the personal political and religious views of the author. It is commentary, opinion, political advocacy, proposed legislation, and religious proclamation based on publicly available congressional records, lobbying disclosures, academic research, government health statistics, and international regulatory comparisons. Not all claims are verified fact. Readers are strongly encouraged to verify all factual claims independently: read S. 4189 at congress.gov, review OpenSecrets lobbying data, check CDC diabetes statistics, examine the Sugar Research Foundation documents published in JAMA Internal Medicine (2016), and read the cited Bible passages in full context. This article does not constitute medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional for personal health decisions. The Sugar Content Limit Act, FDA Reform Act, and Sugar Tax and Diabetes Prevention Act are proposals described in this article and are not currently introduced legislation. This is protected free speech and religious expression. The author is not liable for any actions taken based on this content.

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