America centric post

So...

This question has popped into my brain numerous times over the years, but is now more relevant than ever before.

With the new SNAP processes being implemented in the fall, where it greatly reduces the choices people have, and those choices will be regulated by our federal government, which, will be delegated by RFK's HHS, who has proven time and time again he knows jack shit about health and medicine, how are the anti-big government people dealing with this?

The biggest reason we don't have universal healthcare is because right wing people have long been terrified of "Death Committees" if the government is given control of their insurance and health choices. (It's a stupid and ridiculous fear because people who are alive pay taxes, which the government wants and needs to function, so killing people is somewhat counterproductive, but I digress...)

So, how is the government getting full ability to determine what foods poor people eat okay with them? Especially with the HHS, which is completely packed with shillers and scammers of supplements, raw milk and ivermectin sales men? How are they justifying that the government isn't trying to kill the poor people taking over what SNAP users can buy?

Or do they not care because the poor deserve whatever those who aren't designated for them and they should be happy with what they get, even if it is full of poisons and are intended to weed them out of the population?

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Nick1 · 61-69, M

You need to remember that government don’t want you to be so healthy that you don’t need any medicine or treatments.
Our health system is designed and dictated by drug cos and insurance cos. You see that by their lowering standards so mass population is on regular as per their language, “maintenance drug”. You can see their lowering standards for bp, diabetes, cholesterol and other conditions, irrespective of age of patient, so majority is on maintenance dose. On other end, insurance co lowers your hospital visits, testing etc. For example, if you have any vitamin deficiency, most insurance and even Medicare won’t cover blood test for it. How can you find that out? But with other test results drs want you to keep popping those vitamin supplements!
And supplement industry keeps bombarding you with their ads. You need a pill to open your appetite, another to help you digest, another to poop….
I can go on and on.

FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F

@Nick1 I don't think the government has a lot to do with the way drug and ins companies run. They lobby congress to get what they want, congress doesn't lobby to them.

I will also say that America is one of the few places in the world that does not directly regulate drug prices and health care costs, so the US is their free haven to make profit where they can't elsewhere.

The government literally does nothing in regards to medicine and health insurance because of the "Free Market" that govenrment has consistently refused to meddle with unless there are monopolies, and even then, they have been loathe to do much because of Capitalism.

So, really, unlike, say, the UK, that highly regulates and dictates prices, the US is a place for these two industries to go hog wild. Government does very little to affect them.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

There certainly seem to be two tiers of citizenship in the USA.

Convivial · 26-30, F

To add fuel to the fire I saw an article on NPR today that started 99% of chemicals in guys are NOT FDA approved due to a loophole in the law... And unless you've been living under a rock you're aware that 3M has poisoned the planet with pfas chemicals... And then closer to home we have an the fast food (and I use that term loosely) joints making you obese... I think that ship has well and truly sailed...

GeminiRain · M

Definitely a quandary

Magicianzini · M

Truly anti-big government people wouldn't even support a program like SNAP in the first place.

And maybe that's the indicator here. Despite what most people would publicly say, I believe most would now eliminate SNAP entirely if they could.

Especially as the economy gets worse - people become more competitive. I hear a lot of people resentful of the programs right now, more than I have in the past because of this.

So yes, I believe many are more than satisfied about this change. They "at least" get some "restitution".. even if not entirely since some of the "perks" (a lot of quotation marks here, I know) are being removed.

FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F

@Magicianzini You just have to wonder how hateful these people are and how they view other people as less than human. It astounds me how they are able to simply see other people as lower creatures.

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