Big for-profit corps running our food and medical system (not health, but rather ‘sick-care’), while buying off government representatives and regulators, along with individuals abdicating personal responsibility for what we consume and feed our families, and how we care for our bodies…this is a toxic mix the world over, but the evidence is especially garish in America today.
Wendell Potter, a health insurance executive turned whistleblower, on the GOP failure to repeal Obamacare and what lessons the 2009 defeat of the public option – when Democrats controlled Congress – can offer today. Here is a direct audio link.
All of this is connected to the need for thinking people to fight the industrial food system which is helping to make us sick and bankrupt. Above all else, we are what we consume.
It also connects with this chart, reminding that America spends far more on medical expenditures than other countries (measured at purchasing power parity), but US life expectancy is shorter than in many countries that spend far less. See: The problem with US health care in one chart.
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