GOP Senator Blames Americans for Most of Their Health Problems
Source: Yahoo
Americans who are sick and dying should mostly blame themselves for their health condition. That’s what Sen. Roger Marshall said as Republicans are poised to cut health care access and increase costs for millions of Americans.
“Look, about 70 percent of your health outcomes are determined by you,” Marshall said Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “It’s determined by what you eat and what you’re surrounded by. By the time you come to my office as a doctor, I can impact maybe 10 or 20 percent of your health outcomes.”
Marshall did not cite where he got those percentage figures from. A former OBGYN, he is a leader of the newly-formed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus. He has said the caucus will work with Dr. Mehmet Oz and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — Trump’s choice for secretary of Health and Human Services — to “improv[e] health outcomes by prioritizing nutrition, providing access to affordable, nutrient-dense foods, and focusing on primary care availability to tackle the root causes of chronic diseases.” Kennedy has frequently spouted anti-science talking points, including opposing vaccines (saying that “there’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.”) Kennedy has also threatened to fire National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists, cut NIH and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budgets, and curtail infectious disease research in favor of “preventative, alternative, and holistic approaches to health.”
Marshall said that MAHA will address “nutrition,” “chronic disease issues” and the “mental health crisis.”
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BOSSHOG
(40,660 posts)Okay some Senator go on the morning shows and justify withholding payment of insurance. How bout it’s all the patients fault? Yeah that’ll do. My number one benefactor in health care maintenance wants a larger yacht this year.
underpants
(187,886 posts)Marshall has voted in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act and against protections for Americans who have preexisting conditions. He supports a free market approach to health care and has advocated for fewer restrictions on physician-owned hospitals, an industry he and his family have been heavily invested in. Marshall helped lead the transition of a surgery center into a physician-owned hospital in Kansas. And in the three years before 2020, Marshall’s wife earned somewhere between $195,000-450,000 from real estate investments in physician-owned hospitals, according to a 2020 report in The Kansas City Star.
“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’” Marshall told STAT News in 2017. “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”
BOSSHOG
(40,660 posts)But Noooooo said the patriotic Toto land dumbasses. Voting against their best interests.
Nasruddin
(900 posts)So will assholes.
I think that's about as out of context a quote as you can get from the Bible.
Javaman
(63,238 posts)Oneear
(251 posts)It is of Galvanized Pipe Dipped in Zinc, Which is Lead Pipe. Will you help Us Get Grant money to Remove all the Water Pipe Please
Galvanized water pipe is not lead pipe i.e. zinc is not lead.
Lunabell
(7,162 posts)They love to blame their victims. My little town is a food desert. Without transportation, people in my community have one little dollar general that has expensive fresh fruits and vegetables.
Luckily, we have a community refrigerator that a church and other volunteers like myself, fill with fresh fruit, vegetables and meats. Also dairy, dried beans and cereal products.
underpants
(187,886 posts)
The Madcap
(778 posts)how does he think poor people can afford nutritious food. Oh. I get it. Just don't eat anything, and the weight will melt right off.
Ritabert
(825 posts)Check out all the products with high fructose corn syrup which is used to fatten cattle. Or the chemistry set of chemicals in processed food. And no mention of the bad water in many cities.
Irish_Dem
(61,506 posts)Billionaires cant get rich off of this.
raising2moredems
(723 posts)Crap fast food for Mickey D's. Walmart pays their employees shit so they are forced to buy "Great Value" (mostly ultra processed barely could be called food). Walmart squeezes suppliers, who keep their bonus/profit off the backs of their employers. What's The Matter With Kansas - let's start with their politicians. I'm seeing cracks starting, it ain't gonna be pretty. Please watch out/help out good people in your circle.
Ritabert
(825 posts)No healthy options. And you're right about Walmart which I avoid if I have any other choice.
sdfernando
(5,479 posts)"Marshall said that MAHA will address “nutrition,” “chronic disease issues” and the “mental health crisis.”"
I'm 100000000000% sure they will address these issues all wrong!
Maybe Marshall should have embraced Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative instead of just hating on the Democrats....but I'm sure WE ALL know why he didn't!
underpants
(187,886 posts)Got it. 👍 …..👀
DENVERPOPS
(10,450 posts)is based on the patients he sees in Kansas??????????
LOL, he is talking about Republicans since the state is pretty red....LOL
Diamond_Dog
(35,565 posts)Instead of
“Judging the patient in front of you.”
What a total POS.
bronxiteforever
(9,665 posts)in Americans’ brains. It makes sense because he is ok with brain worms apparently.
As of 2023, Kansas's obesity rate is 35.9%, ranking it 12th in the nation for obesity prevalence: This dirtbag has been in office since 2017. He has been a failure for his own state.
Marshall, who represents a rural state, supports farm subsidies, such as federal crop insurance. His support for subsidies gained him the 2016 endorsement of the Kansas Farm Bureau in the Republican primary.
Marshall supports repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Typical “money for me not for thee” GOP.
crimycarny
(1,662 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:19 PM - Edit history (1)
I wish we could force moronic politicians to try and live like the people they are judging.
Let's see Sen. Marshall try to buy fresh fruits and vegetables on a minimum wage budget. Let's see him get in time for exercise while working two jobs, barely able to afford rent, let alone a gym membership, and living in an area where you can't just take a daily walk or jog.
Diamond_Dog
(35,565 posts)These elites have NO freaking idea. And no will to learn.
bdamomma
(67,087 posts)no idea, how we get up each and every morning to just live, they are spoiled brats and have no respect for anyone.
leftieNanner
(15,784 posts)Except 7-11 in his neighborhood.
meow2u3
(24,962 posts)He won't be allowed to live off his savings and investments, nor will he be able to live in his own home. We'll decide where he'll live (and it won't be in a tony neigborhood), and he'll have to make his inadequate amount of public assistance and SNAP benefits last the entire month.
How much do you want to bet he won't be able to pass the low income budget challenge without cheating?
Vinca
(51,403 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(11,022 posts)
liberalgunwilltravel
(599 posts)Quack.
kimbutgar
(23,843 posts)Blame but the American people are?
he is a special kind of d of stupid.
homegirl
(1,606 posts)percentage by stress? Or inadequate diagnosis? A friend recently had open heart surgery. Took three emergency visits to Kaiser to produce an accurate diagnosis. The third visit the doctor admitted that women are frequently not diagnosed for heart conditions. They know but they don't look for it!!!
MLWR
(43 posts)become physicians because they genuinely want to help people. Others become physicians because physicians often make a lot more money than other professionals. I, for one, prefer my doctor to be of the first group mentioned. You couldn't pay me to see this guy on a professional basis.
FirstLight
(14,416 posts)Because nobody knows where it came from apparently it's genetic, but it could have been because my father played in a polluted stream when he was a child and it changed his dna, but no it's all my fault because I don't eat properly? Fuck him
Mblaze
(453 posts)It can be both allopathic and naturopathic. Don't make it a contest.
his vision of treatment is the biggest problem here... his lack of understanding (or refusals to admit) the part big corporations play in being allowed to exploit and offer shit food and all the socio-economic implications in people's choices -or lack of choices of food / healthy activities
Sen. Roger Marshall appears to be what a typical Republican is these days.... callous, ignorant (willfully or unwillingly) and devoid of empathy
atreides1
(16,456 posts)All Republicans are willfully ignorant, not only the politicians but those who vote for them!!!
Red Mountain
(1,959 posts)Before they pay anything you have to convince your insurer that something you did or didn't do isn't contributing to your health issue.
Seems reasonable.
TommyT139
(863 posts)Mandated coverage of some preventative care (passed along with the ACA) is going to the Supreme Court. I fully expect the anti-coverage lawyers to invoke "personal responsibility" In arguing against coverage.
Rethugs have tried this angle before, in trying to avoid coverage for PrEP and I think contraception -- they didn't get far because of the ACA requirements, so that are tackling that. Wait until they find out that straight folks get HIV too!
markie
(23,025 posts)we still take care of people after being in an accident when they didn't have their seat belt on or weren't wearing a helmet....
I have been a lifelong advocate for being responsible, however, there are so many socio-economic and political factors that play into this
often it would be akin to punishing the victim
TexasBushwhacker
(20,791 posts)Where you live as a dependent child is chosen by your parents. As long as you are a dependent child, what you eat is provided by your parents. As a dependent child, you may be affected by your parents bad habits, like smoking and drinking.
While many people don't become obese until they are adults, obese kids have a tough time turning things around in adulthood.
Martin68
(24,847 posts)idea why poverty is, what causes it, and how it affects your life.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,791 posts)with clean air and no jobs (or grocery stores!).
Rebl2
(15,221 posts)Like western Kansas
Martin68
(24,847 posts)wind of this.
Godot51
(316 posts)People must be educated in health, healthy life styles, and healthy choices;
foods must be regulated to be healthy;
medicines must be tested to be the best possible;
hospitals must be regulated under a National Health program;
doctors, nurses and all medical workers must be trained and retrained to national standards and up to date technology;
private insurance must get out of people's lives;
all health care costs must be regulated;
and everyone needs access to healthy foods, clean air, water, and environment;
and everyone needs the ability to pay for these things.
What we all need is a similar level of life, education, welfare, healthcare, and income, such as that a U.S. senator. receives.
ReRe
(11,002 posts)Republicans are the enemy of man. Period.
Demobrat
(9,982 posts)couldn’t possibly be the first step towards kicking them off disability, could it? Nah. They would never do that.
mentalsolstice
(4,546 posts)I’m disabled because the Dr. on call at the time let my mom labor for 30+ hours and I suffered from oxygen deprivation. But yeah, it’s my fault that the medical staff in the room that day worked hard on a baby born blue to get her to breathe, while her mother was unconscious.
I worked hard to overcome my disabilities, got a JD and a Master’s…..worked long hours until my body just succumbed to early aging.
He doesn’t realize that we’re all 1 second away from being disabled.
SharonClark
(10,380 posts)against Michelle Obama, when she proposed that children eat nutritious lunches?
There was lots of talk about the government, “keeping their hands off my children”, and “no one is going to tell me what my children should eat”.
What hypocrites!
keep_left
(2,610 posts)...beverage at a CPAC event years ago. This was when Michael Bloomberg was trying to pass a "sugar tax" in NYC.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219729247#post23
bronxiteforever
(9,665 posts)By KWCH; Nick Viviani
Published: Dec. 10, 2018 at 3:12 PM EST
President Donald Trump's administration last week relaxed school-lunch rules championed by former first lady Michelle Obama and meant to make school lunches healthier.
The program is now again making room on menus for noodles, biscuits and other foods made of refined grains. The White House is scaling back school lunch standards requiring that only whole grains be served.The standards were implemented in 2012 under former President Barack Obama.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week said only half the grains served in school lunches will need to be whole grains.
Low-fat chocolate milk and a final goal of limiting sodium will also be scrapped with the relaxed rules.
https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Trump-administration-rolling-back-Michelle-Obamas-school-lunch-rules-502378041.html#
Rebl2
(15,221 posts)I remember.
Irish_Dem
(61,506 posts)Being sick is our own fault.
We need to be punished for it.
Maybe if Americans weren't stressed out all the time they could relax and be healthier.
The Madcap
(778 posts)Disposal of the sick...the hard way...just like in Nazi Germany... if we let it get that far.
Irish_Dem
(61,506 posts)
GB_RN
(3,271 posts)We make large strides to shrink the amount of uncompensated care that hospitals have to absorb, by expanding Medicaid and giving insurance subsidies. But now, we’re going to undo all that, by cutting Medicaid and/or turning into block grants - which can be used for what-the-fuck-ever a state wishes to? More hospitals’ bottom lines are going to drop right back into the red, resulting in more closures, especially in rural areas - areas like every damned red state. This will echo back up the ladder to Pharma and medical device companies, as spending on their products will necessarily be cut back at all levels of healthcare.
This is goddamned stupid.
FakeNoose
(36,295 posts)It's the reason why Elon Musk is put in charge of cutting all the "benefits" to the American citizens.
The fact that WE PAY for all of it with our taxes is totally beside the point.
IronLionZion
(47,315 posts)I suppose people cause their own pregnancies since he's an OBGYN. But how about conditions people are born with?
Good that we have Oz and RFK Jr. on the case. America is going to get super healthy with snake oil quackery and forgoing vaccination. Idiots.
Lithos
(26,475 posts)It is a life choice to keep voting morons like him into office.
L-
bmichaelh
(672 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:31 PM - Edit history (1)
This is sheer nonsense.
There was cancer before there were GMO foods or pesticides.
In fact, it goes back some 5000 years.
Also, there are some diseases that have a genetic basis.
I was diagnosed with Crohns; four years later I was diagnosed with lymphoma.
I have since learned that some patients with Crohns are at higher risk for lymphoma.
This senator should visit a couple of children hospitals.
Rebl2
(15,221 posts)to parents whose six month old child develops cancer. Tell that to nine year old me that developed rheumatoid arthritis. Fuck these asshole republicans.
spooky3
(36,670 posts)
Keepthesoulalive
(923 posts)They just want your vote and then you can die.
markie
(23,025 posts)Rebl2
(15,221 posts)I will ever vote for a republican.
Aviation Pro
(13,687 posts)And not one goddamn word about pushing pharmaceuticals down our throats.
soldierant
(8,110 posts)Despite the fact that it's so obvious that if we have better curricula in public schools - teach things like nutrition (I did in junior high, and I'm maybe not the best example, seeing as that was in the 50's and knowledge of what is good nutrition has come along way since them, in addition to the fact that allergies to some foods make it vastly more difficult.) It would also not hurt to teach actual civics
Of course he wants to squeeze every possible penny out of public education too..
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,036 posts)That does not make him an expert on all things medical. In fact, his expertise is limited to one half of the population. He is not a nutritionist, nor a psychiatrist nor an epidemiologist. If he doesn't cite the source for his "facts" then he's pulling the numbers out of his ass.
I feel sorry for his patients -- and his family.
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Hekate
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no_hypocrisy
(49,608 posts)It's my fault if I get sick (and perhaps die) because corporations polluted the air and water which I ingested. Or industrial farmers used hormones and antibiotics on the meat, pork, and poultry that I consumed. Or commercial farmers who sprayed poisonous weed-killers on the produce that either I ate or the meat, pork, and poultry that I ate. Or the state and/or federal government agencies that downplayed COVID, telling the population not to mask up, or get vaccines, or go out in the general public when having an active virus.
And it's my fault for not having enough money to buy organic meat, poultry, pork, fish, produce.
And it's my fault for having cancer based on my family's DNA.
Yup, I don't deserve healthcare funding.
C0RI0LANUS
(2,478 posts)
japple
(10,416 posts)rivers in my county with PFAS. I am on a well, but those chemicals have also seeped into the water table.
ck4829
(36,439 posts)
Emile
(31,599 posts)Holy crap
Icanthinkformyself
(314 posts)“improv[e] health outcomes by prioritizing nutrition, providing access to affordable, nutrient-dense foods, and focusing on primary care availability to tackle the root causes of chronic diseases.” All very laudable goals. I don't think deportation of the field workers will help improve our eating habits, however. But, this is more cynical. First damage the climate and reduce the quality of the foods we grow, then blame the eaters as useless.
bdamomma
(67,087 posts)needs to get off their high horse and STFU.
All this bluster shows how they disrespect the American people. They can eff up!!!!!
Clouds Passing
(3,313 posts)KateMadison
(7 posts)You may not like Senator Marshall’s politics, (and I certainly don’t).. However, as a physician myself, I believe he is correct in stating that our lifestyle choices have a huge impact on our health. Good nutrition, regular exercise, avoiding tobacco, prudent driving habits and sparing use of alcohol are all factors under our control, that can significantly improve our personal health outcomes.
maxsolomon
(35,524 posts)I need a knee replacement: I'd say about 70% of that is my abuse of my knees from hiking, digging holes in the garden, and carrying heavy objects - all without being in top condition - for 60 years.
But about 30% of that is being bowlegged.
Or maybe it's the opposite - 70% bowlegged, 30% use and abuse?
Either way, he's a Repuke, so FOAD.