Let's make Americans healthier by...

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Letting them eat more contaminated food. Still no healthcare though!

Back in the 1960s there was talk about reducing the work week to 25 hours.

That was before Nixon got elected.

Why is Dr. Oz making a comment about the deficit in the first place? He's supposed to be a medical doctor, not an economist.

Doctors should be saying what is healthiest, not what makes money for the government. His priorities are out of whack.

$1 trillion is how much m4a would save annually, along with 114,000 American lives. Also annually.

We're paying a trillion a year to kill 114,000 Americans, and neither party thinks that's bad enough.

This is the opposite of what everyone wants. We need a national, cultural priority for reducing work hours and work years. We do not exist to slave for the wealthy and ambitious, it's time we acted like it. It should be a civilization goal to reduce the retirement age and reduce weekly work hours. We want freedom to live out best lives, not slave away and die in poverty FFS. How is this not our collective goal?

Free Americans from the burden of unwanted labours.

Give me a four day workweek and I’ll be healthy enough to work an extra year.

How about instead Dr. Oz…

One year means a higher chance of death so they can avoid paying out social security.

Watch, they're going to spend over $1t to advertise to get Americans to "feel healthier" just to raise the age... They won't actually do anything beneficial.

This petty shit they are doing pretending to care about finances while laying the burden on the people, while literally pillaging the treasury to line their own pockets, and wasting billions more on needless wars and other Trump vanity projects, it really is the pinnacle of arrogance.

This makes no sense. We don't lack workers right now, in fact, we're kind of in a silent employment crisis.

It's silent because people losing high paying jobs are picking up 2-3 low paying jobs to compensate.

Is this the Turkish man advocating Sharia Law I've heard so much about? Surely this is who the news is referring to when they mention the radical Muslim trying to destroy America.

"Of course, 900 billion of that trillion will be siphoned off so we can keep giving half of it to Elon and using the other half to bomb brown people."

Following that argument, and with the dropping life expectancy in the US, shouldn't people starting pension earlier?

Honestly, I'd rather he think "Make them healthy enough they can work more," instead of "Make them poor enough they can't retire."

Feels like choosing between a dog bite and bear bite.

I mean this is far and away the most disgusting, overtly evil administration the U.S. has ever experienced.

It's comic book villain levels of absurd.

This is what you get when you can't see the forest for the trees and allow conservatives to outvote liberals. Conservative reality will always be clown reality. And you will live in it unless you take the necessary steps to prevent it, even if you happen to be kinda sorta mad at the Democrat party, which is justified, but do you really want to keep doing this?

send him to work in the mines and ask him again a year later

Best I can do is cut personal spending as much as possible and retire early.

Cool cool so why not 2 extra years? 5? 20?

What's makes me mad is even drawing from this heartless well for motivation they are so incompetent they'll still get splinters fucking the bucket instead actually doing things to raise the median years of quality living.

"If we can whip our mules into a frenzy, they'll pull more!". /s

Universal healthcare, and subsidized vegetables (other than Mitch McConnell) when?

There would a few people, if their health were better, would elect to work past the current age. But Americans aren't getting healthier, especially at the current retirement age. So why would we be think about raising the retirement age?

"And we're going to energize the health of the American people by outlawing medicine and contaminating all of the food with AIDS."

I'm already retired. I know they want me dead.

70 more years now and they'll understand that the whole socialism thing actually makes sense as well. Just like taking paying and taking care of your workers actually results in higher and longer production

The number must go up at any cost.

Why not a bajillion dollars ?

Lazy old people, that’s why.

that's not how it works though

You can't have fun until you've paid your dues!

"I divided GDP by 45"

I read that in RFK Jr.'s voice. He is a disgusting jackass who actively wants to kill people for pleasure.