Our Republic has a Secretary of Health and Human Services which encompasses a wide range of services and programs designed to enhance the well-being of individuals and communities. Kennedy Jr, and his boss, despite the MAHA slogan, are a threat to the country's well-being. For example, I contacted my physician at UC Davis to make an appointment for Covid-19. I was told they don't have any vaccines and to go elsewhere. This is the first time in 85 years that I was unable to get a vaccine from my doctor.This essay suggests that the current administration is wreaking havoc on the government and its agencies with its false claims for authoritarian and populist rule, thereby causing negative and toxic public health consequences for the Republic.
The World Is Now Unavoidably Toxic was an article in the August 10, 2025, New York Times. A few of the points made are as follows: 1. Pollution ,like from infinite spores ,is an endless contagion found everywhere. 2. Plastics are found in Japanese mountaintop clouds ,Antarctic snow ice, on Mount Everest and at the depths of the Mariana Trench 3. Plastic is now threaded through the flesh of fish and interfering with reproduction in the stocks of plants as It interferes with photosynthesis. 4. Plastic has been found in the human heart, kidneys, other organs, the breast milk of new mothers' ,ovarian follicular fluid and testicular tissue. Also, the build up inside our brain tissue from contamination is growing
and might be equivalent to the full plastic spoon.
PEAS is a category of long-lasting industrial compounds found in seafoam sewage ,sludge , eggs , seafood food wrappers, nonstick pans, artificial turf, and groundwater serving up to 95 million people. 2. Endocrine disrupting chemicals called phthalates are found in cosmetics, perfumes and shampoo. Also,it results in cancer risk for children because of the rubber services introduced to cushion children that may fall in an uncovered soil playground. 3. River deltas are flowing full of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer runoff into larger bodies of water. Also there’s pharmacological runoff from antidepressants, antianxiety medications, cocaine ,methamphetamine ,heart medication and painkillers. 80% of American streams are positive for some kind of chemical or drug contamination. 4. The term Anthropocene describes our world as being composed of 96% of mammal life , humans and their livestock. 5. There's been a global explosion of not just carbon dioxide emissions but also methane and nitrous oxide among all other forms of pollution and ecosystem degradation 6. Smoke from wildfires has resulted in breathing in more than 2000 gallons of spores and microbes 7. Air pollution produced primarily by the burning of fossil fuels kills millions of people each year globally. 8. More than 90% of the world still breathes, unhealthy air 9. Unhealthy refers to long exposure with respiratory disease, cardiac conditions, development disorders, various cancers, dementia , Alzheimer's ,premature birth,and low birth weight. These conditions are associated with cognitive damage impaired economic performance, increased rates of violent crime and hospitalization for mental health disorders .
Additionally, studies suggest exposure to multiple pesticides might raise the risk of pregnancy complications and increase childhood brain cancer. In fact, the country's second-highest cancer rates are likely the result of pesticides, insecticides and fertilizers. Further, living near a golf course might double the risk of Parkinson's, likely due to exposure from pesticides sprayed on the grass and seeping into local waterways.
The article The Two Beliefs That Drive Conservative Health Care policy found in August 3, 2025 edition of The New York Times is associated with current GOP public health policy. According to House Speaker Mike Johnson ,individuals not choosing to work when they can is called fraud and is cheating the system. In other words the people who enroll in Medicaid now have to prove that they are working, looking for work or unable to work. And secondly, the Paragon Institute concluded that people won't face much harm if they lose medical coverage because they are not using their coverage and that makes healthcare more expensive. Even though using coverage results in some improvements for mental and financial health, it doesn’t lead to improved physical outcomes.
Trump, Kennedy Jr and the GOP are models of making America unhealthy by cutting Medicaid health coverage; reducing funding and scientists from the following agencies- NIH,FEMA, FDA, ACF,AHRQ (Between 2010 and 2014, their initiative made hospital safer and likely helped to avert an estimated 87,000 patient deaths and saved nearly 20 billion in healthcare costs),ARPA-H, ATSDR,CDC, CMS, EPA and , cutting Energy department emissions funding,and freezing of federal grants that support domestic violence programs . Further, they are attacking university research and witnessing massive recruitment for our scientists from other countries, proposing to sell off federal land; denying climate change, crippling the Department of Education and thereby reinforcing the dumbing down of our children.The Presidential fitness test should first be modeled by Donald.
An article titled "Kids Everywhere Are Healthier. Thank America." It was found in the September 7, 2025 edition of The New York Times quoted Robert F. Kennedy Jr "we are the sickest country in the world" "The Trump administration is using these as excuses to demolish what is best about America's health and science infrastructure.
Kennedy Jr. lies when he suggested kids were healthier in the 50s and 60s than they are today. Leukemia, smallpox, and polio infections tell a different story. In fact, death rates for American children between the ages of one and 15 fell more than 75% from 1950 to 2018. Also, people with HIV, cancer, hepatitis C, have longer lives.
NIH is the largest biomedical research funder on the planet and the United States leads the world in scientific discovery and has produced more Nobel Laureates in medicine than In the following nine countries combined. In 2016, more than half of all new medicines released globally originated in the United States and other countries routinely wait for FDA approval before starting a new treatment. And, 20 of the top 30 clinical medicine programs are based in the United States. The article went on to support the facts that Kennedy Jr. is breaking what keeps the nation from getting sicker.Also, to make things worse, quack cures from A.I. are found on social media imitating real doctors.
Unfortunately, people do not take their medication as prescribed, resulting in tremendous additional costs to healthcare, and furthering life-threatening consequences. The GOP would not dare propose not selling meds to people because they don't take dosages as prescribed because it would interfere with profits. Moreover, people don't vote so take away their voter ID cards and people don't always seek medical attention for a number of reasons. Healthcare insurance is a right and has nothing to do with employment. The GOP policies regarding health and welfare of the people are vicious ,cruel and related to economic wealth and inequity.
The dismantling of government institutions , reducing and eliminating scientists, cutting university funding, rewriting history affecting public school education attacking journalists and others is based on the idea that the liberal progressive ideological beliefs of the managerial class have an overbearing bureaucratic control over government ,giving the working-class unlimited power, thereby reducing and/ or eliminating upper-class rule. To quote J.D. Vance,”This anti-managerial bureaucratic idea has to be defeated and that to have any hope of forcing real change in the system, it must generally overthrow the modern ruling class by seizing the institutions from them. “ In essence, the far right populism employs the old overused trope that socialism - working class dominance is evil and thereby uses this as a rationalization for its sadistic exploitation and control by giving and placing one inept , criminal with unlimited power irrespective of the Constitution. This implementation of this hateful disingenuous idea of populism is based on an anal,hateful controlling retentive character tendencies resulting in horrible public health consequences for the majority in our Republic .
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The following research has been canceled: 1. To improve the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy. 2. Study to improve childhood cancer survival rates in low resource hospitals. 3. Development of a new technique for colorectal cancer prevention. 4. Project to analyze premalignant breast tissue in high risk women..
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