by Higgenbotham » Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:48 pm
HEALTH
Trump, RFK Jr’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Pledge Signals Major Shift In GOP Priorities
ADAM PACK
CONTRIBUTOR
October 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent vow to tackle public health issues together could signal a major shift in Republican priorities if the Trump campaign prevails on Election Day.
Trump has called for the creation of an independent commission with Kennedy’s input and pledged to address various Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) issues the former independent candidate has brought to the forefront, including improving the public’s intake of nutritious foods and addressing the rising trend of obesity in adults. These concerns, in addition to other MAHA priorities that have not historically found much support in the GOP such as calling for more stringent environmental regulations, indicate that a potential Trump administration may take a different approach on health, agricultural and environmental issues than during his first term in office.
Campaign officials, GOP lawmakers and health experts previewed a diverse set of MAHA priorities in interviews with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Tackling the rising chronic disease rate that impacts roughly 60% of American adults is a shared point of concern.
“It’s finally turning the page and saying, ‘We want a health system, not a disease system,'” Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the DCNF. “For 50 years we built a disease system.”
“When we send President Trump back to the White House, he will work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again by providing families with safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, told the DCNF. “President Trump will also establish a special Presidential Commission of independent minds who are not bought and paid for by Big Pharma and will charge them with investigating what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic illnesses.”
Republicans and former Trump health officials are enthusiastic that marshaling the federal government in response to the country’s myriad health crises could turn the corner on an era where Americans are facing poorer health outcomes and declining life expectancy.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/28/trum ... in-pledge/
In my opinion, the corner could be turned in 2 generations. Not 4 years as RFK has stated. But there's no way these 2 will be able to put anything together to a.) figure out what the real problems are and b.) find the hundreds of billions of man hours required without collapsing the economy as it currently runs with all its dependencies on corruption.
Once the economy collapses and has the potential to transform to an economy whose primary purpose is not to convert natural resources to toxics and garbage, which will take decades, then maybe the corner can be turned.
But you have to give them kudos for finally pointing in the right direction.
[quote]HEALTH
Trump, RFK Jr’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Pledge Signals Major Shift In GOP Priorities
ADAM PACK
CONTRIBUTOR
October 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent vow to tackle public health issues together could signal a major shift in Republican priorities if the Trump campaign prevails on Election Day.
Trump has called for the creation of an independent commission with Kennedy’s input and pledged to address various Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) issues the former independent candidate has brought to the forefront, including improving the public’s intake of nutritious foods and addressing the rising trend of obesity in adults. These concerns, in addition to other MAHA priorities that have not historically found much support in the GOP such as calling for more stringent environmental regulations, indicate that a potential Trump administration may take a different approach on health, agricultural and environmental issues than during his first term in office.
Campaign officials, GOP lawmakers and health experts previewed a diverse set of MAHA priorities in interviews with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Tackling the rising chronic disease rate that impacts roughly 60% of American adults is a shared point of concern.
“It’s finally turning the page and saying, ‘We want a health system, not a disease system,'” Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the DCNF. “For 50 years we built a disease system.”
“When we send President Trump back to the White House, he will work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again by providing families with safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, told the DCNF. “President Trump will also establish a special Presidential Commission of independent minds who are not bought and paid for by Big Pharma and will charge them with investigating what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic illnesses.”
Republicans and former Trump health officials are enthusiastic that marshaling the federal government in response to the country’s myriad health crises could turn the corner on an era where Americans are facing poorer health outcomes and declining life expectancy.[/quote]
https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/28/trump-rfk-jrs-make-america-healthy-again-pledge/
In my opinion, the corner could be turned in 2 generations. Not 4 years as RFK has stated. But there's no way these 2 will be able to put anything together to a.) figure out what the real problems are and b.) find the hundreds of billions of man hours required without collapsing the economy as it currently runs with all its dependencies on corruption.
Once the economy collapses and has the potential to transform to an economy whose primary purpose is not to convert natural resources to toxics and garbage, which will take decades, then maybe the corner can be turned.
But you have to give them kudos for finally pointing in the right direction.