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One Year Later, RFK Jr Has Dismantled America’s Health Care Infrastructure

One Year Later, RFK Jr Has Dismantled America’s Health Care Infrastructure

Why take vaccines when you can eat meat, do push-ups, and increase your chances of cancer with tanning beds? Inside the deranged, pro-death agenda of RFK Jr. and his cabal of conspiracy theorists.

THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and Paging America (Substack)
Mar 20

One year.

That’s it. That’s how long it took for an unqualified, dangerous crank to damage America’s once lauded health care infrastructure.

Out of all Trump’s horsemen of the apocalypse, I have long warned that RFK Jr., a man with zero medical qualifications who spouts eugenics, is the most dangerous. The man who is now the director of our Health and Human Services has single-handedly replaced medical experts and scientists with fellow conspiracy theorists who don’t believe in life-saving vaccines, use Nazi rhetoric to describe autistic people, and promote bunk science and snake oil to line their own pockets.

Thanks to RFK Jr., vaccination rates in the United States are now hovering around 70% as preventable diseases, such as measles, are becoming great again. The man with brain worms has also decided to literally invert the food pyramid, prioritizing meat and dairy instead of fruits and grains. Why take medication when you can eat “magical” foods and do push-ups instead? No need for vaccines and veggies, kids, but be sure to use tanning beds! Earlier this week, the FDA abandoned its proposal to ban people under 18 from using beds that could increase the risks of skin cancer.

Meanwhile, our best and brightest are now fleeing to Europe and China, with critical research funding being cut, and we haven’t even addressed the cataclysmic damage that will result after the GOP’s “billionaire bill” that will gut $1 trillion from Medicaid.

Thankfully, medical experts and a few judges are fighting back from this pro-death march. On Monday, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s dangerous changes to the childhood immunization schedule. On Thursday, another judge provided temporary relief to 21 states to protect federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-transition care.

Unfortunately, generational damage has already been done, but that doesn’t mean we give up the fight to educate and inform the public about the intentional attacks on their health.

Trump supporters in the heartland fear being left behind by GOP health plan

Republican proposal would upend a healthcare system in Indiana that covers many low-income people – in a program that Mike Pence put in place

Pam Martin flips through a binder of healthcare papers for the disabled brother she takes care of.

Pam Martin flips through a binder of healthcare papers for the disabled brother she takes care of. Photograph: Justin Gilliland for the Guardian

Janice Phelps, a 60-year-old disabled factory worker in Evansville,Indiana, knows how expensive healthcare is.

Each month, shots for her severe asthma cost $3,000. Quarterly injections for knee pain cost $3,200. Medication for depression costs $900. She has had seven back surgeries, two shoulder surgeries, and two knee surgeries since 1985. The largest public health programs in America – Medicaid and Medicare, which aid the poor and the elderly – paid for nearly all of it.

Yet, those programs are now threatened by the men she voted for: Donald Trump and former Indiana governor Mike Pence.

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Now or never on ObamaCare repeal? Despite pressure, GOP divided on bill

Chad Pergram

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Congressional Republicans may find inspiration from the King of Rock and Roll when comes to passing their replacement bill for ObamaCare.

Imagine Elvis Presley crooning his 1960 number one single, “It’s Now or Never.”

“We have a choice,” proffered House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, one of the authors of the health care blueprint. “We can act now or we can keep fiddling around and squander this opportunity to repeal ObamaCare.”

In 2009 and 2010, Republicans railed against Democrats as they relied almost exclusively on their own members to approve ObamaCare. Now Republicans are going it alone to repeal ObamaCare and adopt their own health care package. But some conservative lawmakers and interest groups alike are upbraiding the GOP legislation. It only takes a few renegades in both the House and Senate to incinerate the plan.

“It’s ObamaCare-lite,” argued Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. “We have to admit we are divided on replacement.”

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