*** “All the other countries..have made a different moral decision. All the other countries like us..guaranteed medical care to everyone who gets sick..have concluded that everybody has a right to health care – and they provide it. One result is that most rich countries have better national health statistics…Yet all the other rich countries spend far less on health care than the United States does…most developed countries manage health care without resorting to “socialized medicine.” [ T.R. Reid: “The Healing of America” ]
1] “Barely eight months into his second term, president Donald Trump has disrupted, depleted, and desecrated our nation’s already fragile health care system, putting millions of lives in jeopardy. A new Public Citizen report, “The Rise of Trump’s Dangerous Health Cabal,” highlights the threats posed by Trump’s health care appointees – not just to the agencies they’re supposed to run, but also to patients, providers, and the programs they rely on.” [“Trump and Allies Threaten to Worsen Health Care, Putting Lives at Risk”; Public Citizen News; Sept/Oct, 2025]
*** “It was no accident that American health care became a profit center for Wall Street…..To encourage Wall Street to step in, The Reagan administration embarked on an ambitious plan to sell investors and venture capitalists on investing in health care.” [Donald Barlett & James Steele: “Critical Condition”]
2] “Robert F. Kennedy, jr.’s efforts to undermine vaccines in America are not just scientifically absurd. they’re also financially ruinous…vaccines save money….Health insurance companies know this; that’s why they make flu shots free….Employers know this, too: it’s why many of them pay for flu-shot days…..The HPV vaccine is extraordinarily cost-effective….the DPT vaccine..prevents three horrifying diseases….If Kennedy succeeds in pushing even one vaccine off the market, the financial repercussions will be severe.” [ Donald McNeil, jr.: “Not vaccinating comes at an exorbitant cost”; Washington Post Weekly; 9/28/25 ]
*** “How Hospital Monopolies Drive Up the Cost of Care”; Shannon Brownlee; Washington Monthly; November/December, 2022 – a review of “Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America; David Dranove, Lawton Burns.
3] “The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older, and disabled people could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits..”….
“People familiar with the proposed changes said they are a priority of Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a key author of Project 2025, which has shaped Trump’s policies. [NOTE: remember Trump LIED during the 2024 election about having anything to do with “Project 2025.]
*** “The true “elephant in the room,” to use Dale’s metaphor, is the fact that our health care system has been ‘privatized” by an insurance industry more intent on lining its pockets than on ensuring that the American people get the public service and care that they pay for.” [ Dr. Ralph Bovard: “Rationing is not the only alternative”; Minneapolis Star Tribune; 2/8/2011 ]
4] “In July, the Trump administration cut off Medicaid payments to reproductive health care clinics that offer abortions…The move was seen as directed at Planned Parenthood…a long-time target of Republicans. But two smaller providers, Maine Family Planning and Health Imperatives, a network of seven clinics in southeastern Massachusetts, were also swept up in the measure.”
“The fallout will soon be felt by thousands of patients across the country, particularly where there are few options.” [ Jenna Russell, Anna Griffin: “Freeze on Medicaid payments forcing rural health care cuts”; New York Times; 10/5/25]
*** “Inadequate attention to and investment in services that address the broader determinants of health is the unnamed culprit why the United States spends so much on health care but continues to lag behind in health outcomes.”…..
‘…the United States is not spending as much as other industrial countries on fortifying crucial social services that help make people healthy…10 percent of its GDP on social services while France, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark..and Italy all spend about 20 percent…providing reliable housing, ensuring nutrious food sufficiency, and safeguarding against harmful exposures…” [Elizabeth Bradley, Lauren Taylor: “The American Health Care Paradox”]
5]. “Millions of low-income seniors are missing out on crucial help paying for Medicare – and the recently enacted federal budget law blocks an effort to help them get it….the law does suspend until 2034 a requirement that states adopt a Biden-era plan to increase enrollment in state-run Medicaid programs that help seniors who qualify get a hand paying for out-of-pocket Medicare costs.” [Mark miller: “Poor Retirees Lose Key Medicare Help”; New York Times; 10/5/25]
*** “The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
6]. “Last week, President Donald Trump emphatically discouraged women from taking Tylenol during pregnancy, based on unproven claims that acetaminophen is linked to autism…..The truth is that chosing relief or intervention when its medically appropriate is not weakness.”…..”They want to dictate your pregnancy……and add to the sense that it is appropriate for women to suffer for the sake of their babies.” [Catherine Pearson: “Pregnant Women Face An Onslaught Of Advice”; New York Times; 9/28/25]
***. “The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you’ve got the political power to reinforce them.” [ penny Skillman ]
7]. “At the behest of Trump, Congressional Republicans passed a massive tax cut for billionaires, paid for in part by huge cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and other crucial programs. These cuts threaten to cut off access to health care for millions of Americans. The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to privatize Medicare by hiking rates for Medicare Advantage plans.” [“Trump and Allies Threaten to Worsen Health Care, Putting lives at Risk”; Public Citizen News; Sept/Oct, 2025]
***. “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” [ Justice Robert Jackson ]
8] “Trump could gain leverage from shutdown….Layoffs, cuts would play into Project 2025 goals” [ Jacob Bogage; Washington Post; 9/28/25]: “..The White House is preparing for a shutdown that would reflect the purest vision of President Donald Trump’s vision for the federal government, guided by White House budget director Russell Vought, an architect of the controversial Project 2025 playbook for Trump’s second term…The result, both during and after a shutdown, could be a federal government dramatically reoriented to defense, immigration and law enforcement – and not much else.” [NOTE; remember what was said above – underinvesting in social services to keep people healthy – if the Trump DICTATORSHIP cuts health funding – how does this “…promote the general Welfare..” ? {U.S. Constitution]
*** “Zeal is fit only for Wisw Men, but is found mostly in Fools.” [ Thomas Fuller ]
For Perspective: “We the People of the United States, in Order to from a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare..do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” “..promote the general Welfare..” YOU tell me, where in all the Craziness, Stupidity, Corruption, Cruelty of its “health care’ policies does the Trump DICTATORSHIP “..promote the general Welfare..” of YOU and other Americans??????? YOU tell me, after nearly 9 months of Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – what, if anything, has the Trump DICTATORSHIP done to. “..promote the general Welfare..” ?????????
The CORRUPTION and HIGH COST of American ‘health care” that was begun under the Reagan administration has now created a crisis in American “health care” that. DOES. NOT exist in other “developed’ nations. Check on health care in Scandinavian countries – “the happiest people on earth.” What do they do that America does not? Read T.R. Reid’s. “The Healing of America;” Pulitzer Prize winners Barlett & Steele’s. “Critical condition;” Bradley & Taylor’s. “The American Health Care Paradox.” The answers to America’s health care crisis are. KNOWN. – because of. CORRUPTION. – we don’t do them………..
With Justice For All 