Summary
Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) claimed that “70 percent” of health outcomes depend on individual choices, blaming Americans for poor health while Republicans plan to cut healthcare protections.
Marshall, a former OBGYN and leader of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus, emphasizes nutrition and preventative care but ignores systemic issues like poverty and racism.
Proposals from the Trump administration and GOP Congress may weaken Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections, reduce access to care, and increase uninsured rates.
Marshall has also supported physician-owned hospitals, benefiting financially from the industry.
The Millionaire Senator Roger Marshall, that pleaded no contest to reckless driving when he attempted to run over his neighbor? The same Roger Marshall that tried to stop the impeachment of Trump for extorting a foreign country’s leader to interfere in the US election or he would withhold aid approved by Congress? The same shit heel who was caught violating insider trading reporting, opposes abortion in cases of rape and incest, contested the 2020 election without evidence, and promoted conspiracy theories during the peak of the COVID pandemic?
The world would be a safer place without Roger Marshall, and he’s welcome to surrender his Medicare for life granted to all congresspersons because any health issues he or his dependents have are clearly self-inflicted as he says about others.
I agree with him to an extent. But people can’t make right choices if they don’t know what are the right choices. As with most American ills, it’s an education problem, which is systemic and not individual. So I’d lower his number to 50% now that we all have access to the internet and can research what a good diet looks like.
Blame education levels when medical advertising is no longer allowed and when companies need to be able to substantiate any health claims. A huge part of the problem is our exploitational and dishonest system: we don’t need an education as much as a skeptical eye and being able to spot the scans, fakes, and lies
I still cannot abolish personal responsibility. But I agree with you, that that is also a big part of the issue but for me a skeptical eye comes from being well educated on at least basic stuff. When you don’t know much about anything it’s really hard to decide what is fact or fiction and because trying to untangle the lies from the truth is hard work most people just default to taking everything at face value and accepting it without much skepticism.
Marshall, a former OBGYN and leader of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus, emphasizes nutrition and preventative care but ignores systemic issues like poverty and racism.
A conservative who ignores the impact of unaddressed and systemic poverty and racism in his policies? I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.
They’re not problems FOR HIM so obviously they’re not problems! Poor people should just not be poor - duh
One of the biggest things that “radicalized” me was my son’s heart disease. Right out of the gate he’s got a chronic illness that neither he nor my wife and I could’ve avoided (no genetic issues or family history of heart disease) and under the old system he would’ve struggled his entire life to get medical coverage because every insurer would try to say his heart was to blame or he’s used up his lifetime maximum (what a dumb fucking policy that was). Plenty of people like him do absolutely nothing wrong and suddenly they’re facing a lifelong health issue, but that doesn’t mean he and others like him are a drag on society.
Fuck healthcare and health insurance profits! They’re probably the top industries where cost-saving decisions mean someone is going to die.
And often wouldn’t be a drag on society and would grow up and walk and talk and poop on their own and do everything else an able bodied person does if they just had stuff like early surgical interventions and their $0.03 a day medication that’s existed since 1983.
Maybe it’s about time that 70% of senators had their health decided by us too.
The prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials famously defined “evil” as the absence of empathy. His point still stands.
A republican? Being a worse-than-worthless cunt??
You must have made it up 😠😠
Rugged individualism is brainrot.
To some extent, it is about choices, to a degree, but nearly everything the qons do supports people convincing everyone to make those poor choices. The qons went insane over things like - restricting the size of gigantic sodas, planting a vegetable garden at the White House, Michelle Obama encouraging exercise in children, and the qons call things like encouraging good health “social engineering”.
And that’s not even getting into the complete mess our SAD is - and it is largely a creation of things I’m sure most qons support - a system that creates massive amounts of beef and dairy via subsidies, food deserts in large parts of the country, and wanting zero restraint on business when it comes to regulation in making and marketing this dangerous food, means someone, somewhere, is consuming the stuff that leads to so much bad health, or living in the cancerous zones that are created as an “externality”.
Meanwhile, if the qons hear a whiff of someone making plans to educate children about the health implications of SAD - most especially curtailing, in any way, the ridiculous over-consumption of meat, dairy and eggs, why, they get the vapors. They view this as “indoctrination”.
SINGLE-FAMILY CAR-DEPENDENT ZONING
The biggest contributing factor to our obesity is how our built environment itself facilitates a sedentary lifestyle.
It’s also a major contributing factor to:
- poor mental health (because of both commuting road rage and lack of “third places” to socialize)
- the housing crisis
- wealth inequality
- climate change
- plastic pollution (a lot of which comes from tire dust)
- crime (as a knock-on effect of inequality and poor mental health, plus the legacy of leaded gasoline)
Marshall has also supported physician-owned hospitals
Weird thing to include as if this is bad. Would you prefer venture capital to own the hospitals?
Third option: non-profit.
Even if that is true, that means that if Elon Musk or Trump gets cancer from something, 30% of the time it is from something that the government has said is safe and no amount of money or healthcare could have avoided it.
