Health Care Is a Mess... But Why? (employment, gallon, salaries)
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One word……………… Lobbyists are the problem.
Congress and state legislators consistently puts the best interests of lobbyists before those of the people they serve. It's as non- partisan as it gets.
The US population is the fattest in the world. No surprise we have the most costly healthcare in the world.
The US could pick up the full tab for insuring those with waist sizes within the so-called (and very generous) healthy range and spend substantially less than it does today for people who decline to take responsibility for themselves. Could easily give the population a reasonable period of time to align their caloric intake with their expenditure and then go for it.
Everyone would have the freedom to take personal responsibility or not. Those who choose not to take personal responsibility pay for their healthcare or do without.
Double-dipping and triple-dipping means-tested Federal Free Food Program benefits for the exact same daily meals doesn't cause obesity? The USDA OIG admits that 59% of families on Food Stamps are on two or more free food programs for the same daily meals.
Please cite your source which states that getting free food benefits for 6, 9, or more meals per day per person instead of 3 meals per pay doesn't result in obesity.
Eliminate the correlation source. Stop overfeeding the poor. Stop ruining their health. Stop letting them collect on multiple means-tested free food programs for the exact same daily meals.
59% are on two or more means-tested free food programs for the exact same daily meals. You really don't recognize the problem with that?
the health care system is a mess because government got involved with both feet at all levels. get government out of health care, and bring back real competition, and you will see prices go down.
You will then see more of Comcasts, ATT and Zuckerbergs.. What is the need to buy WhatsApp for 20Bn??
I see all kinds of health food and vitamin stores opening up in my city. Everyone wants to stay well now so they don't need to go to the doctor, a lot can't afford insurance on their own anyway.
I recently got on Medicare and my doctor bills have gone up. Most people say who cares since the government will pay most of it but WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. And health care costs keeps going up and up. Just like college tuitions after the government suck their nose in it. Nice huh?
Also, I would have never gone on Medicare if I had a choice but the government will fine you if you don't. Another nice idea they have to control us. Plus I also need supplement insurance as well.
You percieve " everyone wants to stay well now so they don't need to go to the doctor" because you notice all kinds of health food and vitamin stores opening up
in your city? Guess you never noticed the bakery within Whole Foods.
If everyone wanted to stay healthy, 75% of adults would not be overweight/ obese. The obesity rate would not have quadrupled since 1960.
My husband is 70 and continues to work full time. He never enrolled in Medicare and will not incurr a penalty when he does because he has been continuously insured. He was however, automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A when he turned 70 and began taking his SS benefit.
No idea why your doctor bills have gone up since you chose to enroll in Medicare. Perhaps you utilize more and/ or different services than you once did or your doctors increased their fees or something else.
I completely agree, and was delighted to see a Republican Congressman complain on TV yesterday that 44% of adults on Food Stamps are obese. Not just overweight... OBESE. There's absolutely no reason for that other than that we are force feeding them too much free food at taxpayers' expense, and then taxpayers will have to pay AGAIN for the health care they'll need for their obesity-related illnesses.
That's absolutely insane!
The obesity rate has steadily been increasing to the point of quadrupling since 1960.
POTUS is the face of of US obesity. Those extra long, made anywhere but the US, ties he wears are gimmicks to create a vertical and minimize his girth. 75% of the adult population can relate.
Some people seem to prefer to deflect the obesity epidemic by focusing on the obesity rate of those on the SNAP program instead of the overall population. Interestingly, some of are the same people who criticized the federal government for requiring schools to adhere to nutritional requirements and cut the empty calories.
Congress could eliminate eligibility of non- nutritional food from the SNAP program any time they choose to do so. They choose to put the interests of big corn, big farm and big grocer before the interests of the people. It's as bipartisan as it gets.
There's 43 million people on food stamps. 45% are under age 18. That means 24 million are adults and 44% would make 10 million obese. The average adult obesity rate in the US is 36% so subtracting the 10 million food stamp holders still leaves 81 million obese adults.
Therefore, having food stamps only slightly increases the likelihood of obesity. It's an illogical and classist conclusion that people are obese bc you're giving them free food.
Oftentimes those who choose to deflect, focus on the obesity rate of those who recieve SNAP benefits. They are often the same who criticize government for imposing nutritional requirements on school meal programs that offer no or low cost meals to tens of millions of children.
No Congress, regardless of majority, is going to eliminate SNAP or school meal programs.
My point is that the data doesn't prove that the fs caused the obesity bc there's no way to know if the person was obese beforehand.
People's choices cause obesity.
No one is forced to consume empty calories. ( Drinking a soda pop as I key this)
No shortage of posters to this forum who sharply criticize federal government for imposing nutritional guidelines on school districts that choose to accept federal subsidies for school meal programs.
Again, no Congress is going to eliminate SNAP or subsidized school meal programs, no matter which party holds the majority.
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