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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    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”.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      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)