How would you improve our health?

[Thunk]

So what's the alternative to salt?

There really isn't one. Luckily I've been cooking since I was 3 years old so I can manage a low sodium diet by making all kinds of delicious creations.

I can do alot with mexican food by using diced tomato, onion, green pepper, red pepper, & hot peppers and 93/7 ground beef. And a few drops of tobasco.

 

[Woodznutz]

Well, according to evolutionary science, the home sapien species has been around somewhere between 550,000 to 750,000 years. So a lot of us must have figured out a few things along the way. I am a pretty good self taught dietician and my kitchen is something of a science lab because of all the different kinds of dietary needs among the people who come to visit or just come to dinner here. But there is a lot of things I don't know and a lot of things I know change from year to year mostly due to a 'scientific' study some college kid did for a Masters or PhD thesis or whatever

I am at the total mercy of others to tell me what is safe to eat and what isn't in a lot of the food we have available to us. And I am pretty confident the FDA has allowed a lot of food products and medications on the market that probably should have had a closer look.

And that's why I think somebody like RFK Jr who has been preaching the problems with our food and drug supply for a long time now, and who has the time and interest, to look into it and make it better if he can, is most likely a good thing.

I hope he chooses a holistic approach, otherwise he'll just be playing "whack a mole".

 

[Seymour Flops]

If you were the head of HHS, what would you do to try to improve the health of America?

First thing I would do is insist that the border be secured. This would improve health in several ways:

1 - Our infant mortality rate would drastically decline. Currently, if a pregnant woman crosses the desert in a sweltering trailer with no ventilation and no light, over a bumpy dirt road, so she can have her baby in El Norte, and the baby dies when she delivers in that trailer, that is counted as an "American infant death" as long as she claims that the trailer had crossed the border at that moment.

2 - Our emergency rooms would not be used for primary care by illegals who never seem to have car or health insurance.

3 - deaths from fentanyl and other elicit drugs smuggled across the border would drop.

4 - Deaths of children used in sex trafficking would drop.

5 - Deaths of Americans, particularly women, by being raped and murdered by illegals would drop.

 

[Woodznutz]

First thing I would do is insist that the border be secured. This would improve health in several ways:

1 - Our infant mortality rate would drastically decline. Currently, if a pregnant woman crosses the desert in a sweltering trailer with no ventilation and no light, over a bumpy dirt road, so she can have her baby in El Norte, and the baby dies when she delivers in that trailer, that is counted as an "American infant death" as long as she claims that the trailer had crossed the border at that moment.

2 - Our emergency rooms would not be used for primary care by illegals who never seem to have car or health insurance.

3 - deaths from fentanyl and other elicit drugs smuggled across the border would drop.

4 - Deaths of children used in sex trafficking would drop.

5 - Deaths of Americans, particularly women, by being raped and murdered by illegals would drop.

We could also revisit what constitutes a death caused by poor health. For example, a heart attack death of the younger person isn't the same as a heart attack death of an older person. After age 80 death is normal and is accomplished by several means, none of which should be considered unusual or unexpected. Our bodies wear out and stop working. Ya gotta die of something.

 

[Foxfyre]

I hope he chooses a holistic approach, otherwise he'll just be playing "whack a mole".

Don't know where he stands on that. But I do know he is interested in identifying anything that is creating an epidemic of general unhealthiness in the America people. His job is not to look for cures but rather causes and dangers and eliminate those as much as is reasonable.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Sorry...not a veggie-tarrian. I love cow & pig & lamb & chicken

Toxic Immaturity

When the Vegans were children, they watched too many talking-animal cartoons. They never grew up, and still think of carnivores as murderers of Bambi and Thumper.

 

[Zincwarrior]

2. Get the government out of healthcare except for NECESSARY regulation, licensing, etc. and allow the free market to provide affordable healthcare again.

Can you cite another First World nation that does this?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Abolish HHS, and all it's attendant bureaucracies.

You want to get rid of the CDC and FDA? You want to get rid of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration?

 

[Oddball]

You want to get rid of the CDC and FDA? You want to get rid of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration?

Do I want to get rid of the biggest protection rackets ever devised by man?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Do I want to get rid of the biggest protection rackets ever devised by man?

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How are you going to have RFK fixing the food then? You just killed the agencies to do it.

 

[Oddball]

How are you going to have RFK fixing the food then? You just killed the agencies to do it.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING?!?

They're the ones who've been paid off -who have been taking the protection loot- to allow things to get how they are.

Oh, but we can fix it!...We really can polish turds!!!

 

[Foxfyre]

Can you cite another First World nation that does this?

The USA is not any other country. All I know is before the government got involved in providing healthcare, all of us could afford to see a doctor when we needed to and doctors were available to see us pretty much 24/7. And there were charities and other provisions made for the very poorest people. The U.S. healthcare system was the best in the world at that time. U.S. life expectancy was up there among the top of all countries.

So was our education system and most could find a way to pay for college if they really wanted to go.

Since the government got into healthcare, got into higher education, both are now out of reach for the average American to pay for out of pocket. And we are among the sickest and unhealthiest and the worst educated of most developed countries.

If you want to reduce costs let the free market do it. It HAS to make things affordable in order to function.

 

[Zincwarrior]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING?!?

They're the ones who've been paid off -who have been taking the protection loot- to allow things to get how they are.

Oh, but we can fix it!...We really can polish turds!!!

How are you going to do it then?

The USA is not any other country.

So...no other First World Country? What successful country then? Surely there is at least one.

 

[Oddball]

How are you going to do it then?

So...no other First World Country? What successful country then? Surely there is at least one.

blablablablablablablabla

We'll just trim around the edges of the cancer, and everything will be just fine!

Damn, are you statist bootlickers naive.

 

[Oddball]

The USA is not any other country. All I know is before the government got involved in providing healthcare, all of us could afford to see a doctor when we needed to and doctors were available to see us pretty much 24/7. And there were charities and other provisions made for the very poorest people. The U.S. healthcare system was the best in the world at that time. U.S. life expectancy was up there among the top of all countries.

So was our education system and most could find a way to pay for college if they really wanted to go.

Since the government got into healthcare, got into higher education, both are now out of reach for the average American to pay for out of pocket. And we are among the sickest and unhealthiest and the worst educated of most developed countries.

If you want to reduce costs let the free market do it. It HAS to make things affordable in order to function.

Failure is evidence that we need more money and power!

 

[Zincwarrior]

blablablablablablablabla

We'll just trim around the edges of the cancer, and everything will be just fine!

Damn, are you statist bootlickers naive.

So how are is JFK going to do it then?

 

[Oddball]

So how are is JFK going to do it then?

Nice syntax....You on drugs?

Here's a counter-question: How are everyday people going to get by, without protection racketeers busting out shop windows and breaking kneecaps?

 

[Foxfyre]

Failure is evidence that we need more money and power!

And insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. And when that insanity includes increasing what has produced poor or really bad consequences expecting a different result, it becomes certifiable or else some other nefarious dynamic is in play.

I prefer that a trusted doctor that I pay for his/her services decide what is in my best interest to be healthier. I do not trust partisan government to dictate what that doctor must prescribe for me or otherwise presume to know what is best for me. And I certainly resent a massive bureaucracy draining massive resources from the people and burying them under mountains of paperwork instead of delivering actual healthcare..

 

[Zincwarrior]

Nice syntax....You on drugs?

Lots of prescriptions.

Here's a counter-question: How are everyday people going to get by, without protection racketeers busting out shop windows and breaking kneecaps?

So you have no idea. Maybe a new bureaucracy?

 

[Zincwarrior]

I prefer that a trusted doctor that I pay for his/her services decide what is in my best interest to be healthier.

So medical debt.