These hucksters aren’t wrong about there being a profit motive in medicine. Big Pharma is especially culpable but there’s plenty of fat in the medical profession as well that could be solved with universal insurance among other things. However, if you want to see a truly obscene con, look at the sector these fraudsters come out of. The “wellness” and supplement industry is full of snake oil salesmen, conspiracy theorists, woo-woo weirdos and grifters. Some of it is fine — I take some supplements myself. But as a replacement for science and real medicine? My God, I had no idea that’s what they actually had in mind.
I think, once again, this is all projection:
By the way, they are lying when they say that Americans are more unhealthy than they’ve ever been. Utter nonsense. There is an obesity epidemic (which is happening elsewhere in the developed world as well) and their cautions about processed foods are well taken. There are diseases that are caused by our affluent society and we need to fix them. (Just ask Michelle Obama how that actually goes over.) But the fact is that the scientific progress made in the last hundred years is nothing short of a miracle and all the medical research that’s extending people’s lives and allowing us to live healthier lives is at stake with these fringe freaks.
I’d like to think that this can all be put back together in four years but some of it’s going to be impossible to recreate. People are leaving the field (and the country), programs are being dismantled, data is being lost. And who knows if the Democrats can actually win back the presidency and/or the Congress? I wouldn’t have thought that after January 6th they could lose to Donald Trump again but here we are. It’s depressing…
But we can’t give up hope. Job one is to stop them as quickly as we can and that means electing Democrats (yes, I know, but they’re all we’ve got), pushing the states to do their part, supporting those who are fighting the good fight in court and getting the word out so that all the people who are overwhelmed by what’s happening hear it whether they are looking for it or not. It’s a big, strong, rich country and it’s not too late.