On Trump

[highfigh]

Way, less and with much better health care outcome for the general population on many metrics.

The life expectancy of a US male is 73.5 years (from 2021 statistics used by Social Security for 2024), as one example. Quite bad and shows how broken the US health care system is.

You'll never convince him with statistics or rational arguments, though.

As I posted previously, it's not just health care, it's a litany of problems-

- People are lazy, many didn't finish school.
- People can't be bothered to learn about or engage in health, exercise, healthy cooking/eating & drinking.
- Alcohol and drugs contribute heavily to the decreased life expectancy.
- Lobbying members of Congress has caused a lot of this and it could easily have been prevented.
- The education system has failed in teaching kids to think about staying healthy (and many other topics).

 

[highfigh]

It's the elected members' of both political parties who are in the pockets of the Pharma, Health Insurance, Pharmacy Benefit Manager lobbies. Us the American citizens are too uninformed, too lazy to lobby and demand action of our elected members of Congress. We think our responsibility end with voting.

How can citizens compete financially with the interests who have billions of dollars to pay members of Congress? We can't, but not enough voters can bring themselves to pay attention, so they join Instagram, FB, etc and watch TV/movies/play video games for hours on end, eating bad food the whole time.

 

[trochetier]

How can citizens compete financially with the interests who have billions of dollars to pay members of Congress? We can't, but not enough voters can bring themselves to pay attention, so they join Instagram, FB, etc and watch TV/movies/play video games for hours on end, eating bad food the whole time.

It can be done only if we stop complaining and get doing, i.e email our Congressional Representatives. Just visit these two sites where everyone's contact info is listed.

Representatives | house.gov

www.house.gov

U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators

www.senate.gov

I often contact my House and Senate members on current issues of my interest and always get a proper response. They have never solicited me for donation either.

I emailed Trump 1.0 at https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/ got a response to my exact comments. In contrast Biden sent me a form letter extolling his virtues. I am sure neither POTUS saw my email, but at least someone in Trump WH actually read my comments and took the time to respond.

 

[mtrycrafts]

It can be done only if we stop complaining and get doing, i.e email our Congressional Representatives. Just visit these two sites where everyone's contact info is listed.

Representatives | house.gov

www.house.gov

U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators

www.senate.gov

I often contact my House and Senate members on current issues of my interest and always get a proper response. They have never solicited me for donation either.

I emailed Trump 1.0 at https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/ got a response to my exact comments. In contrast Biden sent me a form letter extolling his virtues. I am sure neither POTUS saw my email, but at least someone in Trump WH actually read my comments and took the time to respond.

Or, it's all AI now.