GOP's Plan- Who is Actually Going to Place $$ into these Health Savings Accounts?

[junkman]

@ray: Another friend was going to need a liver transplant. His Doc had no alternatives so he went to a holistic healer who has since been run out of TN by the authorities. The quack doc hand my friend drinking raw vegetable juice and eating raw food which amounts to only plants because most won't eat uncooked meat.

Lo and behold, his liver started to heal and 15 yrs later we still ride bikes together. Strange how plants provide nourishment and processed foods cause illness.

 

[RayNY]

@ray: Another friend was going to need a liver transplant. His Doc had no alternatives so he went to a holistic healer who has since been run out of TN by the authorities. The quack doc hand my friend drinking raw vegetable juice and eating raw food which amounts to only plants because most won't eat uncooked meat.

Lo and behold, his liver started to heal and 15 yrs later we still ride bikes together. Strange how plants provide nourishment and processed foods cause illness.

Quite often, liver and kidney issues are directly tied to poor diet. Stop the bad diet, the issues go away. Not so much "raw food healed him" but "no more poison meant he could heal".

Consuming large amounts of HFCS has been clinically proven to lead to extensive liver damage. UCLA even showed decreased synaptic activity from a diet high in HFCS. Americans consume boatloads of HFCS, no surprise that obesity/high blood pressure/liver and kidney issues/diabetes/heart disease are so common.

 

[junkman]

Another friend whose Doc had prescribed a lifetime of diabetes meds went to see the Quack Doc. He cut the dosage in 1/2 within 2 weeks & completely off all meds in slightly more than a month.

Perhaps we need a heavy tax on the processed crap sold as food. The collected tax revenue could be used to pay for premiums - or commissions.

 

[RayNY]

Perhaps we need a heavy tax on the processed crap sold as food. The collected tax revenue could be used to pay for premiums - or commissions.

That's already in place in quite a few places. All data suggests it's effective.

Berkley is a good example, 22% tax resulted in a 17% fall in sugary drink sales among poorer households in just one year, and a 63% increase in water consumption. Mexico has had a 1 peso per liter tax since 2013, 5.5% reduction the first year, 9.7% reduction the second year, Over a billion dollars per year in revenue.

But, in this current political environment, don't expect to see this on the federal level.