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Cake day: August 2nd, 2022

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  • Trump said the pair would take on "the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake" as well as cutting what he called waste and fraud.

    "Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget," Trump said in a statement. Saying Oz would be a leader in "incentivizing disease prevention".

    The average time a person is with one health insurance company is 3 years in the US. That is because the majority of health insurance in the US is employer-funded, meaning the plans switch when the company switches administrators/plan offerings (like going from BCBS to UHC or not offering a PPO anymore), or when people move to a new job. There is no incentive for long-term preventative care. Insurers play hot potato with patients until they can finally dump them on Medicare, when all of those years of minimal preventative care results in chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. that CMS has to pay for. The only way to solve that is single payer healthcare.




  • The reasoning behind this attack seems to be to force Russia's hand, lest Putin look weak, and then in turn force Trump's hand, lest he look weak should he come in and attempt to deescalate after Russia and NATO start actually trading blows without all the subterfuge. It seems like the Biden/Starmer/Macron triumvirate are hoping for a "heads we win, tails you lose" style scenario. A "November Surprise" if you will. I'm not sure if it will play out that way, since a significant portion of Trump's base don't want war with Russia and he can probably come in and blame this all on Biden and the Democrats being warmongers.