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.

 

[Trell]

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).

Your arguments makes no sense as to why you're against universal healthcare at all as those problems you write about are in other countries as well. Still cost less than half, as measured by GDP, and with much better outcome for the general population. Healthcare is not just when you go to a hospital because you're sick but even for preventive purposes.

As for preventive care have a look at the US program SNAP. Republicans hate it, of course. I guess you want to cut that as well?

>>>Putting Healthy Food within Reach for Those in Need

SNAP provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.<<<

In your world, would universal health care be able to deny claims for people who drank, drugged, lazied and ate their way to severe illness?

We do treat them, but you would rather let them die, apparently.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Or just have the courage to say you believe for-profit is the best healthcare system cause it will accept more claims with less rationing or something or other. No, lets not answer the question and say 'well because people don't have healthy diets.....' The point being there's no realistic way to get to the root causes on a patient with healthcare denials based on junk food, alcohol, or lack of exercise etc.

 

[GO-NAD!]

Shot...

Chaser...

 

[GO-NAD!]

Somebody needs to hide his phone.

Donald Trump says buying Greenland is "absolute necessity"

Donald Trump has said that acquiring Greenland is necessary "for purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world."

www.newsweek.com

"For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.

"Freedom throughout the world depends on US ownership of Greenland?"

 

[Trell]

Somebody needs to hide his phone.

Donald Trump says buying Greenland is "absolute necessity"

Donald Trump has said that acquiring Greenland is necessary "for purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world."

www.newsweek.com

"Freedom throughout the world depends on US ownership of Greenland?"

Good grief!

The important part is that Greenland is part of the stable democracy Denmark that is member of NATO and EU, so there will be access to minerals and other natural resources. And, of course, for defence purposes.

Now, as for minerals and natural resources Trump should take a look at Ukraine and stop it being occupied by Russia. I saw this op-ed by Marc A. Thiessen, but quite sure by it's validity.

>>>Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine.

Ukraine is not only the breadbasket of Europe; it is also a mineral superpower, with some of the largest reserves of 117 of the 120 most widely used minerals in the world. Of the 50 strategic minerals identified by the United States as critical to its economy and national security, many of which are quite rare yet key to certain high-value applications, Ukraine supplies 22.

Ukraine possesses the largest reserves of uranium in Europe; the second-largest reserves of iron ore, titanium and manganese; and the third-largest reserves of shale gas — as well as large deposits of lithium, graphite and rare earth metals, according to a 2022 report by the Canadian geopolitical risk-analysis firm SecDev. These minerals are essential to the production of vital goods ranging from airplanes, cellphones and electric vehicles to steel and nuclear power.

The question for the president-elect is: Does he want Russia and China to get that treasure trove of natural resources? Or does he want to develop them with Ukraine to the benefit of the American people?

One of the main reasons Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine (aside from his delusional historical fantasies about how Ukrainians and Russians are “one people”) was to seize these natural resources, which are valued at an estimated $26 trillion, according to SecDev. ...<<<

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/18/trump-ukraine-gas-mineral-russia-peace-deal/