Category: Make America Healthy Again

Republicans are weak, lazy, or both. There’s no excuse for the GOP to be so pathetically incompetent when it comes to health care. But it’s what you get when you vote for The Swamp. Our health-care system (aka sick care system) isn’t just sick — it’s obese. Bloated with red tape, bureaucrats, and corporate profit. For fifteen years, we’ve been told to “trust the experts,” pour in more subsidies, and hope prices go down. Instead, premiums are up nearly 80% since 2014, and families are paying more than ever for less care. Want to know the truth? We didn’t subsidize health care. We subsidized health administration. The number of administrators, coders, and billers has exploded, while the number of actual doctors has barely moved. Hospitals merge, insurance CEOs cash out, and patients wait months for basic appointments. The Affordable Care Act didn’t bend the cost curve — it bent the

Thirty-seven years ago, an executive at Monsanto named Harold Corbett delivered a speech titled “Chemical risk: Living up to public expectations.” The 1988 speech called out an industry that delivered miracles and devastating mistakes. Corbett described two chemical industries. One was responsible for safe drinking water, higher crop yields, medicines, and a better standard of living. The other was responsible for contamination, waste, and health crises: “The public doesn’t care how far we’ve come. They care how far we still have to go.” It still rings true today. Harold Corbett was my grandfather. Lost trust To turn a profit, pharmaceutical companies suppress unfavorable data and mislead consumers with predatory advertising. Food manufacturers sell metabolic dysfunction; hospital systems consolidate care; and chemical conglomerates litigate instead of innovate. Now, a growing number of Americans are speaking out decisively against the quartet of Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Health. This