This is a good thing. After Medicare, it would go to Medicaid, and then 55 million overweight people on Medicaid would be allowed to get $1,700/month injections costing over 1 Trillion Dollars.
Kennedy talks about why we can't just give people vouchers to buy healthy food and education instead.
I was taught at a young age that I should follow the food pyramid. I was further educated that soda was good for me to drink every day. Mountain Dew day was a thing at my schools where they would just ship it in and give it away. It's hard to break these kinds of habits. I would like to see education changed to promote healthy eating. We know how bad most of this stuff is, but it's hard to fix it when billions of dollars are spent against us.
But as an adult you have access to the information, so why haven’t you utilized it and built healthy habits? I was raised in an upper middle class family with healthy, home cooked meals and an active lifestyle. Despite being taken to nutritionists at an early age, guess who still battled with obesity my entire life?
The reality is there are far more factors at play, including genetics, hormones, and other underlying health conditions. Willpower alone isn’t effective for the majority of people, and the fact is that preventative healthcare results in lower overall costs in the long term.
And if this disordered eating is so ingrained in you- to the point where meal vouchers and education are not an effective treatment- why are YOU deserving of “a quick fix” but the poor, elderly, disabled and uninsured aren’t? A little hypocritical, no?
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u/Flying-Tilt 2d ago
This is a good thing. After Medicare, it would go to Medicaid, and then 55 million overweight people on Medicaid would be allowed to get $1,700/month injections costing over 1 Trillion Dollars.
Kennedy talks about why we can't just give people vouchers to buy healthy food and education instead.