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.
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.