John Oliver has already made his emotions about U.S. well being secretary RFK Jr. abundantly clear, however on Sunday’s episode of Final Week Tonight he focused the Make America Well being Once more (MAHA) motion generally, from the individuals behind it to the scientifically questionable concepts they espouse.
“It’s maddening that for the primary time in latest reminiscence, there was a real floor swell of assist for a cleaner, more healthy, much less corporately-controlled America — however it’s taken this fucking kind,” says Oliver within the clip above. “As a result of for the ultimate time, it’s completely legit to need America to be more healthy, and there are clearly systemic issues with regards to America’s well being. However these simply aren’t the options.”
Oliver goes on to say a not too long ago revealed report within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation on little one mortality and sickness, carried out by researchers from the Youngsters’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the College of California’s Heart for More healthy Youngsters. The authors wrote an inventory of coverage suggestions, together with “investing in anti-poverty measures, broadening medical health insurance protection, investing in main care, and passing firearm security legal guidelines”, which Oliver says is “clearly fairly fucking removed from what this administration is doing.”
“As a substitute they’re shredding the social security web whereas elevating voices that push the duty for well being all the way down to the person,” the host concludes. “However I assume what I am actually saying right here is, in its present kind, MAHA isn’t about making America wholesome once more. At greatest, it’s about laundering the fame of an administration that’s doing the precise reverse.”
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