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The Millionaire Senator Roger Marshall, that pleaded no contest to reckless driving when he attempted to run over his neighbor? The same Roger Marshall that tried to stop the impeachment of Trump for extorting a foreign country's leader to interfere in the US election or he would withhold aid approved by Congress? The same shit heel who was caught violating insider trading reporting, opposes abortion in cases of rape and incest, contested the 2020 election without evidence, and promoted conspiracy theories during the peak of the COVID pandemic?

The world would be a safer place without Roger Marshall, and he's welcome to surrender his Medicare for life granted to all congresspersons because any health issues he or his dependents have are clearly self-inflicted as he says about others.

Rugged individualism is brainrot.

I agree with him to an extent. But people can’t make right choices if they don’t know what are the right choices. As with most American ills, it’s an education problem, which is systemic and not individual. So I’d lower his number to 50% now that we all have access to the internet and can research what a good diet looks like.

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.

A conservative who ignores the impact of unaddressed and systemic poverty and racism in his policies? I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.

Maybe it's about time that 70% of senators had their health decided by us too.

100% of recently shot CEO's were the result of their choices.

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.

The prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials famously defined "evil" as the absence of empathy. His point still stands.

since theyre so concerned im sure theyll ramp up the preventative care as that itself saves a metric buttload of money... right? right?

A republican? Being a worse-than-worthless cunt??

You must have made it up 😠😠

People need to understand that there is nothing universal about doctors. Many are great people who genuinely want to help people. Like anywhere else in life that involves people, there is a slice of doctors who are assholes. Within that slice, you find the the doctors who don’t like what they do and find something else lucrative like CEO or Senator. Marshall is one of those guys. These doctors and former doctors won’t hesitate to use their former title to try to look better though.

Yes, what he says, can be true. Patients will often and wantonly ignore advice to diet and exercise to lose weight. Diabetics will ignore the rules of being diabetic and end up in a coma in ICU. And hold my beer injuries absolutely do happen. But again, it’s a slice, not 70%. Many people do what their doctor advises. Many people will put in the work. Some of them, failing at diet, will get a gastric sleeve or gastric bypass, that works too. And many diabetics manage their disease, including type 2 diabetics who work hard to lose weight to send their toe 2 diabetes into remission. And so on.

Marshal sounds like a real jerk.

One big difference I've seen between the US and other countries that illustrates this problem is in labeling.

In the US, things like "sugar free" and "low sodium" are seen as features (and half the time they're deceptive anyways). In other countries, labels go the opposite direction, and unhealthy food has to have warnings that it's high in fat/sugar/etc.

former OBGYN

Can we make rules to not let these kind of fucking worthless pricks anywhere near a woman's body, please and thank you?

"you're going to be tired of all the winning!"

-Trump

....yes... I'm very very very very fucking tired of Republicans "winning."

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".

Marshall has also supported physician-owned hospitals

Weird thing to include as if this is bad. Would you prefer venture capital to own the hospitals?

Even if that is true, that means that if Elon Musk or Trump gets cancer from something, 30% of the time it is from something that the government has said is safe and no amount of money or healthcare could have avoided it.