What will have to be fixed after these morons are gone is just overwhelming. I hope the up and coming generations will be up to it. But how can they be? They're the ones being hurt the most.
If healthcare were truly about caring for people and not about profit, shareholders' ROI, political leverage, and the ridiculous number ofg middlemen who suck a large chunk of the healthcare dollar, we'd have money to invest in building a workable healthcare system. Plus, we live in a quasi-caste system where the people who are accountable for deciding healthcare have great healthcare coverage. Keeping the unequal healthcare system in place guarantees that the upper caste keeps its dominance.
How do we improve on these measures of heath? Sometimes the School of Public Health at one of our universities would go out to an underserved community to have a local health fair clinic. They would check things like weight, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and blood sugar and blood counts. The folks in the poorest health would get referred to their doctors. If they didn’t have one they were recommended to visit a clinic for those who have limited resources. Unfortunately many people may have to depend on a food pantry or a soup kitchen for at least one meal per day. My husband and I donate a lot of food to charity called Caring for Kids. You’re absolutely right that the BS that Kennedy is proposing will make us all sick again.
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
Dr, Berwick has spent much of his career exposing the flaws of the US health care system and making scientifically-valid changes to improve the situation. He is no apologist for our medical care, But when Dr. Berwick sounds the alarm about the Trump and Kennedy administration's poorly conceived ideas to Make America Healthy Again, we should pay close attention. Gutting the expertise at CDC and public health services is NOT a path to good health. Also cutting all social network and education spending will not help. Bravo, Don! Hope your words appear on Truth Social.
MAGA policy seems to be a combination of craziness and goal-directed decision-making. In addition to saving money to offset tax breaks, health care policies made so far seem to have an intended effect of weakening the scientific establishment to minimize its influence as well as support the mistaken ideas about health that RFK embraces. The short-term policy benefit of offsetting tax breaks is short-sighted, and reducing expected benefits usually doesn't play well and is a great political risk for the Trump administration. Long-term, the health care decisions made by a President who just doesn't care, an HHS administrator who doesn't think straight, and a briefly-employed DOGE administrator who doesn't understand government, will have severe health and economic consequences.
Thanks Dr. Berwick. The MAHA propaganda is a boon to the Functional Medicine click. But Sir Reagan’s Welfare Queens won’t be checking their vital signs on their new Levels Wearbles anytime soon.
I will believe to my dying day that hard as it is to believe, there's something even more nefarious going on.
You've laid out a great summary of what I think it a collective action, Mr. Berwick, to fulfill trump's lust to be a dictator. IMO, these are individual, unrelated actions. Instead, I think they, together with the massive firings of federal employees and dismantling government programs in areas outside of healthcare.
It seems these actions, taken collectively, are intended to weaken and divide us, making it easier for trump to achieve his goal of being a dictator.
What will have to be fixed after these morons are gone is just overwhelming. I hope the up and coming generations will be up to it. But how can they be? They're the ones being hurt the most.
“A scientifically guided plan for ‘making America healthy’ is simple to devise: Invest in what drives health.”
MAGA hates science, so maybe call it “an anti-woke plan” and they’d be all in. SMH
If healthcare were truly about caring for people and not about profit, shareholders' ROI, political leverage, and the ridiculous number ofg middlemen who suck a large chunk of the healthcare dollar, we'd have money to invest in building a workable healthcare system. Plus, we live in a quasi-caste system where the people who are accountable for deciding healthcare have great healthcare coverage. Keeping the unequal healthcare system in place guarantees that the upper caste keeps its dominance.
How do we improve on these measures of heath? Sometimes the School of Public Health at one of our universities would go out to an underserved community to have a local health fair clinic. They would check things like weight, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and blood sugar and blood counts. The folks in the poorest health would get referred to their doctors. If they didn’t have one they were recommended to visit a clinic for those who have limited resources. Unfortunately many people may have to depend on a food pantry or a soup kitchen for at least one meal per day. My husband and I donate a lot of food to charity called Caring for Kids. You’re absolutely right that the BS that Kennedy is proposing will make us all sick again.
Hubert Humphrey had a relevant quote:
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
By any measure or definition, we fail miserably.
Dr, Berwick has spent much of his career exposing the flaws of the US health care system and making scientifically-valid changes to improve the situation. He is no apologist for our medical care, But when Dr. Berwick sounds the alarm about the Trump and Kennedy administration's poorly conceived ideas to Make America Healthy Again, we should pay close attention. Gutting the expertise at CDC and public health services is NOT a path to good health. Also cutting all social network and education spending will not help. Bravo, Don! Hope your words appear on Truth Social.
MAGA policy seems to be a combination of craziness and goal-directed decision-making. In addition to saving money to offset tax breaks, health care policies made so far seem to have an intended effect of weakening the scientific establishment to minimize its influence as well as support the mistaken ideas about health that RFK embraces. The short-term policy benefit of offsetting tax breaks is short-sighted, and reducing expected benefits usually doesn't play well and is a great political risk for the Trump administration. Long-term, the health care decisions made by a President who just doesn't care, an HHS administrator who doesn't think straight, and a briefly-employed DOGE administrator who doesn't understand government, will have severe health and economic consequences.
Thanks Dr. Berwick. The MAHA propaganda is a boon to the Functional Medicine click. But Sir Reagan’s Welfare Queens won’t be checking their vital signs on their new Levels Wearbles anytime soon.
As always, Dr. Berwick's comments are clear, irrefutable, and sorely needed!
I will believe to my dying day that hard as it is to believe, there's something even more nefarious going on.
You've laid out a great summary of what I think it a collective action, Mr. Berwick, to fulfill trump's lust to be a dictator. IMO, these are individual, unrelated actions. Instead, I think they, together with the massive firings of federal employees and dismantling government programs in areas outside of healthcare.
It seems these actions, taken collectively, are intended to weaken and divide us, making it easier for trump to achieve his goal of being a dictator.