#trumpcare

[garthnadermemestash]

He’s had 8 years to come up with a health care plan

[lily-orchard-archives]

May 5, 2017

[mugiwara-lucy]

Will Kamala actually give use free healthcare??!??!

It won't be done overnight but I think so!

STILL waiting for TrumpCare 🤣

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#15yrsago GOP Senate hopeful got rich diverting corpsemeat from burn victims to enlarge penises https://web.archive.org/web/20080229172359/https://thehill.com/markos-moulitsas/gops-flesh-eating-zombie-candidate-2008-02-26.html

#15yrsago More Abu Ghraib torture photos https://www.wired.com/2008/03/gallery-abu-ghraib/

#10yrsago Akata Witch: young adult hero’s journey of a Nigerian witch https://memex.craphound.com/2013/02/27/akata-witch-young-adult-heros-journey-of-a-nigerian-witch/

#5yrsago Trumpcare added $33B to government healthcare spending, in order to cover 8.9m fewer Americans, who will pay more for less https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trumpcare-urban-20180226-story.html

#5yrsago Senior Ben Carson staffer says she was demoted for refusing to “find money” to spend on lavish publicly funded perks for Carson’s home and office https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/ben-carson-office-furniture-whistleblower/index.html

#5yrsago Blue Cross employees are instructed to donate to the boss’s daughter, a “Democrat” who opposes single-payer https://truthout.org/articles/blue-cross-pressures-employees-to-donate-to-opponent-of-single-payer-candidates/

#1yrago Amazon’s $31b “ad business” isn’t https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/#shakedowns

[stellanslashgeode]

I remember him trying to get TrumpCare on paper in 2017 and failing miserably.

“I have concepts of a plan”

My dude the election is less than two months away did the dog eat your fucking presidential homework??

[thereverendjoey1959]

The Miracles of Jesus Under Trumpcare

[leaarongmail-blog]

The Miracles of Jesus Under Trumpcare

[debylynncedars]

The Miracles of Jesus Under Trumpcare

[pathstowellness]

Review of The Hacking of the American Mind by Robert H. Lustig MD, MSL

Did you just get the urge for chocolate and pick up a couple of bars or maybe a cake on the way home? Do you consider yourself a chocoholic at times and laugh it off? Are you constantly on your cell phone or social media? What if these cravings for cookies, cell phones, social media, etc that have become endemic to the American culture aren't simply innocent habits but the results of years of biochemical engineering by Big Business to get people hooked? As we pursue the happiness these addictions offer they are damaging not just our minds, but our relationships, and society as a whole according to the author, pediatric endocrinologist, and professor Dr. Robert Lustig in his book The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains. Lustig argues that we have been "hacked" by certain industries that intentionally "obfuscate the link between their products and disease, and to willfully confuse the concepts of pleasure and happiness with the sole motive being profit" (Lustig p 6). He supports his argument with information by delving into various areas including biochemistry, neuroscience, psychiatry, economics, etc. The past forty years of increased addiction and depression are the result of too much pleasure and not enough happiness.

The title of this book caught my attention on the library bookshelf, not having read anything by Lustig previously, but ever the student of mental and physical well-being how this can contradict the practices of our modern society. I'd first thought he might be another "expert" medical professional trying to pass his theories off as reality or serve up another dose of positive psychology, however, as an endocrinologist, Lustig does ground his argument in the underlying science of biochemistry something I found reassuring from the start of the book. "the biochemistry drives the behavior" (Lustig 27) and it is clear this is where he is comfortable as the second and third parts of the book deal exclusively with explaining the chemistry of the dopamine reward pathway and the serotonin contentment pathway. This doesn't leave much room in the book to discuss other areas such as economics and philosophy, which I would have liked to learn more about, but it did make for an engaging read.

Also, Dr. Lustig focuses on hormones in children and his previous book Fat Chance deals with obesity and metabolic syndrome in our society. I have yet to read Fat Chance, but it is apparent that this book also borrows heavily from that research as, although he touches on phones and gambling, sugar seems to be the main villain. Where sugar was a luxury at one time, it is now cheap, easy to procure, and highly addictive. Our society has become stressed and sleep-deprived leading to mental health issues like depression and addiction to processed foods loaded with sugar leading to symptoms of metabolic syndrome: weight gain, cancers, heart disease, diabetes, etc. I'm familiar with the link between sugar and metabolic syndrome, but he also argues for a link between sugar and dementia and Alzheimer's disease. This proves to be more of a correlation than a causation, but it did raise serious concerns for me. After all the medical field had claimed for a long time to not know the underlying causes of Alzheimer's. I recall during the diet fads of the past when fats were labeled the main culprit sugar was put in its place.

There are a few points where I notice when discussing politics, Lustig seems a little out of touch on the healthcare policies of the time he was writing apparently during Donald Trump's presidency claiming at one point that the Affordable Care Act had been repealed and that Trumpcare was on the way.

I appreciate how the author provides suggestions in the last part of the book to win the battle against big business, especially the food industry defined by the four c's: connection, contribute, cope, and cook. Lusting advises that we should connect with our fellow human beings in person and not just online, volunteer for a cause, cope by getting sleep and practicing mindfulness, and cook for ourselves and our family. I have seen different versions of these suggestions in other books and articles and I currently been practicing them myself and have seen great improvement in my life.

I recommend this book to those interested in learning about the biochemistry that underlies our behavior and the serious effects sugar can have on our health. I think sugar's role in keeping us eating poorly and dealing with health effects is the strongest part of The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains. I agree with Lustig that the way we live needs to change and changing our diets is the main key. I can speak from experience as I have reduced sugar significantly in my diet with very positive results.

[newslo]

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney: “Don’t Like Trumpcare? Nobody Is Forcing You To Be Poor” https://newslo.com/budget-director-mick-mulvaney-dont-like-trumpcare-nobody-forcing-poor/

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

"I hate obamacare, it's terrible, we need to get rid of it, but I'm the one who saved it, it should be called trumpcare, everybody loves it. No, I'm not going to tell you my plan to replace it."

The housing crisis isn't about a lack of housing, it's about companies buying up properties and jacking up the rent. You can build as many new homes as you want, but if you don't stop the landlords you're doing nothing but putting more money in their pockets.

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_03 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally. 

[posttexasstressdisorder]

End the nightmare...

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[dragoni]

Dr. Fauci gets the last laugh #COVID45 😂