[H]ow is a movement that’s simultaneously about individual responsibility and corporate oversight going to accomplish anything in the most deregulatory administration in American history? Kennedy’s movement promises more privatization. … Kennedy loves talking big about taking industry to task. His agency’s actions dictate otherwise. Slashing the quarter of the federal workforce predominantly focused on public health initiatives shows how much concern MAHA actually has for health.
Also: how is a movement that ignores the social determinants of health and loathes the concept of universal health care going to positively impact the most vulnerable populations, which already suffer the worst health outcomes?
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MAHA is just a MAGA rip-off. Redirecting taxpayer money from public health initiatives and social services to a diagnostics lab and supplements pipeline using a propaganda tagline (“Make America Healthy Again”) will support the for-profit wellness crowd that helped elevate Kennedy to his position, making his inner circle even wealthier. And once again, vulnerable populations, already exploited by free market healthcare, will suffer most.
