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The Health of the State
Steyn Online ^ | 8 Sep 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/09/2025 6:38:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The most important aspect of the MAGA agenda is MAHA - Make America Healthy Again. As I wrote - here it comes, folks; first of the week - a mere decade-and-a-half ago:

What's worse than debauching your finances? Debauching your human capital.

No one who walks down a typical American Main Street would bet the future on the USA. Don't take it from me: stick your late grandfather in an HG Wells time-machine and fly him from 1950 to now. He would be horrified; the single most salient fact about the United States is staring you in the face. Granted, in the big crime-ridden cities, the picture is obscured somewhat by the fact that everyone under fifty seems to come from somewhere else, so among the sickly natives are legions of trim Pushtun "translators" from the outskirts of Jalalabad and svelte CCP bagmen with supersized attaché cases en route to Hunter Biden's art dealer. But in the unknown, unfashionable rural towns the truth is harder to avoid: this is a profoundly unhealthy society.

Which is odd. Because Americans are the most thoroughly medicated people on the planet, and pay more for the privilege than anybody else. Despite that, on every metric - from life expectancy to childhood obesity to psycho-trannies on the rampage - the results are a disaster.

And yet your elected representatives are in no doubt what the real problem is....

...

Bernie Sanders: Everybody in This Room Took Big Pharma Money, 'Are They All Corrupt?'

Do you really want an answer to that, Your Serene Senatorial Highness?

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; maha

1 posted on 09/09/2025 6:38:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
... for all those "Warning: Side effects may include chronic flatulence and homicidal ideation" products that are conspicuous by their absence from media in, say, France or Albania. Both of which, per the most recent stats, have higher life expectancy than the US. Albania only just, but not unimpressive considering that everybody chain-smokes untipped Turkish cigarettes and accessing the health system requires swimming to Italy. The US has the highest annual medical costs in the world: twelve-and-a-half grand per capita. Albanians live longer - for just four hundred bucks per capita.

LOL! but a damn criminal situation too.

2 posted on 09/09/2025 6:41:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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“ It’s not quite that easy, but it is the most obvious fact in society: look at the kids at your county fair. That’s a mass tragedy: if you suffer from chronic disease as a child, good luck having a healthy adulthood.”

Yes. The Biggest Pig at the Iowa State Fair is no longer found in the livestock pavilion.

https://www.iowastatefair.org/food/whats-new


3 posted on 09/09/2025 9:29:50 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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Spend a moment at the nearest shopping mall — holy cow!


4 posted on 09/09/2025 10:27:15 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Rummyfan
Both of which, per the most recent stats, have higher life expectancy than the US.

In all fairness, the numbers are probably skewed but the 200,000 to over 400,000 Americans who die annually from medical mistakes.

5 posted on 09/09/2025 10:29:22 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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