The U.S. spends more on medical care for lousier medical care than that available, at far lower cost, in most of the rest of the world. From Jenna McCarthy at jennesside.rocks:
Sure, the “experts” sometimes get things wrong. But at least they’re unanimous.
Dear Liberals and Legislative Leeches,
First, I want to personally thank you for trying to protect the rest of us from the answers to dangerous questions like “why are our kids getting autism at unprecedented rates?” and “why is life expectancy in America getting shorter and shorter?” Unfortunately, we’ve currently got a lunatic in charge of our nation’s collective health, and he’s out there right now, clipboard in hand, acting like the Sherlock Holmes of chronic disease and trying to figure these things out. Can you imagine? We’ve lived perfectly fine* without answers to anything for ages!
[*Perfectly fine = the sickest nation on earth, but at least we’ve cornered the market on pity. Other countries get Nobel Prizes, we get GoFundMe campaigns. Go USA!]
Remember when plus-size dudes and bearded ladies were carnival attractions?
Before RFK Jr. even got into office, we ranked first in healthcare spending, first in chronic disease, and last in every measurable health outcome. Sure, that looks bad on paper. But did you know that Kennedy once stole a dead whale that had been hit by a car and then fed the roadkill to his pet ravens (or something like that)? Or that two of his family members have called him a threat to Americans’ health? (Fine, the two family members are his sister Kerry, who was busted for not disclosing she was being handsomely paid for her “activism,” and his nephew Joseph, who sits on the board of a major pharmaceutical company—but I’m sure they’re both lovely, trustworthy people!)
Let’s face it, Kennedy is a former drug addict. I realize he’s been sober for longer than Lindsay Lohan has even been alive, but can’t we please just go back to having a fat dude in a dress making our healthcare policy calls? I felt so much safer back then, when The Science™ (*minus biology and psychiatry) wasn’t under constant, relentless attack.
Your health is your problem and not Dr. Lexus fresh out of Marxist U. who panics when you don’t have the UPC hive tattoo on your wrist.
Garbage In Garbage Out applies to health as well.