How would you improve our health?

[Oddball]

Change it to a NHS style system, though with changes in certain things.

The US federal government spends (or spent the last time I worked it out a few years ago) more per capita on healthcare than the UK govt does (or did)

For that the UK gets healthcare free on delivery for all people. The US get some people getting healthcare free at the point of delivery and most people having to pay for private healthcare (let's call it a con job), meaning the US spends a lot, lot more than the UK does.

The US pays for insurance companies to take 15% of all money put into the private system before anyone's even started on the healthcare.

Then you have pharma companies, doctors and hospitals playing the system knowing that because the insurance companies "are paying for it" they can literally charge whatever they want. You're looking at 50% of all money going into private healthcare not going to actual healthcare, but lining people's pockets.

Because the solution to too much bureaucratic and political meddling in the marketplace, is to put the entire system under the thumb of politicians and bureaucrats!

 

[Zincwarrior]

Your TDS is showing. Remember that Trump donated his entire salary back to the government for the entire four years of his first term.

He charged the Secret Service 3x rent to have locations near him. The Saudis gave his boy toy SIL $2,000,000,000!

And other than finishing up contracts they were already obligated to do, he and his sons did no new business overseas for those four years. Family members who worked in the administration also did so without salary or expense accounts. It cost them billions.

You are a literal liar but thats ok.

That is not how somebody wanting money behaves.

But this thread is about how the government can help improve our health. How about you focus on that for awhile?

Yes he loves bribes. Thats why Musk gave him money to speed up the licensing process.

 

[Woodznutz]

My personal health, it would be get more hours of sleep. If I was in charge of everyone’s health then I wouldn’t know where to start.

Like anything else you want to change for the better you start with,

Education
which leads to
Inspiration
which leads to
Motivation
which leads to
Rehabilitation
which leads to
Realization

 

[Mr Natural]

It’s a simple equation:

Eat less, do more.

 

[Zincwarrior]

It’s a simple equation:

Eat less, do more.

Get cancer

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Get cancer

Educated Eunuchs

Get oncologists whose minds haven't atrophied from our intelligence-insulting educational system. These childish nerds don't earn a living until they are 30 years old. The Educationists have convinced us that character has nothing to do with creativity.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Educated Eunuchs

Get oncologists whose minds haven't atrophied from our intelligence-insulting educational system. These childish nerds don't earn a living until they are 30 years old. The Educationists have convinced us that character has nothing to do with creativity.

er... what?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

er... what?

Brain Sprain

You common taters think that the talented have to be punished before they are rewarded. If it weren't for the few High IQs, we'd all be living like jungle animals. Because of your insults and ingratitude, the talented but proud went on strike decades ago.

 

[fncceo]

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

Mind my own business and let Americans take care of their own health.

 

[Woodznutz]

Brain Sprain

You common taters think that the talented have to be punished before they are rewarded. If it weren't for the few High IQs, we'd all be living like jungle animals. Because of your insults and ingratitude, the talented but proud went on strike decades ago.

"No good deed will go unpunished". That's why I keep my good deeds to myself.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

"No good deed will go unpunished". That's why I keep my good deeds to myself.

Brain-Workers Should Unionize

The talented but self-respecting employee won't report his inventions and innovations to his thieving bosses. He will quit and try to market them away from their limited knowledge of what is going on in their sector.

Because of its disincentiving result, corporate patents are the most economically destructive Grand Larceny in history.

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is totally ignorant of the real situation. It should be, "If you're so smart, why haven't you made the rich richer?"

It's typical of the lies we've been told that outsourcers are complaining about China stealing their intellectual property. The economic traitors were the ones who stole it before that from the Cash Cows for Corporate Cowboys. Unpaid education sets up creative people to become wimpy nerd pushovers.

 

[Woodznutz]

Brain-Workers Should Unionize

The talented but self-respecting employee won't report his inventions and innovations to his thieving bosses. He will quit and try to market them away from their limited knowledge of what is going on in their sector.

Because of its disincentiving result, corporate patents are the most economically destructive Grand Larceny in history.

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is totally ignorant of the real situation. It should be, "If you're so smart, why haven't you made the rich richer?"

It's typical of the lies we've been told that outsourcers are complaining about China stealing their intellectual property. The economic traitors were the ones who stole it before that from the Cash Cows for Corporate Cowboys. Unpaid education sets up creative people to become wimpy nerd pushovers.

Not easy, or cheap, to patent and market an invention (been there, done that).

 

[Woodznutz]

Brain-Workers Should Unionize


"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is totally ignorant of the real situation. It should be, "If you're so smart, why haven't you made the rich richer?"

There's truth to this. I lend all my talents, and good ideas, to the company I work for and have been amply rewarded for it.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Woodznutz]

1. Get all hidden poisons out of the food supply and other substances we take internally or require clear warnings of the presence of those poisons.

Or don't buy foods with all those chemicals in them. More whole foods, learn to cook.

 

[Woodznutz]

Your inability to reason constricts yer intelligence to not understand the essentials of metaphysical control.

I can reason best for myself. For others, not so much.

 

[Woodznutz]

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.

WHAT? BAMBI AND THUMPER ARE DEAD?!?

 

[Woodznutz]

Get cancer

That'll take the weight off.

 

[sparky]

WHAT? BAMBI AND THUMPER ARE DEAD?!?

.........and porky Woodz....

~S~

 

[Foxfyre]

Or don't buy foods with all those chemicals in them. More whole foods, learn to cook.

We go as much as we can with unprocessed foods and I definitely know how to cook. My kitchen is something of a science lab putting healthy meals on the table for a wide variety of dietary needs. But I still want the poisons out of our food supply. For instance cereal companies make one product for Europe that requires the questionable substances be omitted and another for the USA that has all kinds of crap in it. Simply requiring them to make the same product for us as they do for Europe would be a good start.