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.
You will also need to fix PTO and work practices that deny paid time off since most clinics only operate during bankers/work hours.
Speaking of PTO, most employers don’t offer sick banks any more. You either use your time from your 2-3 week vacation bank as a sick bank or you don’t get paid time off. You can either get sick or have a vacation, not both. Even hospitals engage this system with their employees, not offering a time bank for anything medical. Worse, they’ll force you off on days with too many staff and auto pull from that bank, depleting it.
So it’s not as simple as just ramping up preventative care. You will still have people trying to use the Emergency Room on the weekends and thus not really getting help for basic problems instead of seeing their doctors.