As important as it is to achieve universal healthcare, we also have to ask ourselves why we have so many more chronic illnesses than they do in other advanced countries. 1/2
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As long as Big Food and Big Ag dominate our farming and food supply, chemical companies are allowed to poison our green spaces and fossil fuel and defense industries pollute our environment, no healthcare system will ever be able to get ahead of the damage they cause. 2/2

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From what I see no country is advanced enough to feed their people instead of going to war.
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The principal founder of #M4A in Canada, Tommy Douglas, eventually realized an effective universal healthcare system required building a system for preventative health, which included food & environmental regulation. Unfortunately we're doing little better on that than the US.
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Don't forget Big Car - we drive instead of moving our bodies -> obesity, flabbiness - accidents (biggest killer of children worldwide) - air pollution
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Glyphosate is an omnicidal poison
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Big pharma has to be included on this list. They often want to addict people to drugs, rather than focus on curing people. A cure would mean losing a lifelong customer, so instead they focus on pumping people fill of drugs regardless if it'll actual help them out not.
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As long as corporate industries have control over most politicians, this will never change. Lobbying and PACs have taken government away from the people and keep most of the moral people running for office.
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We have to stop eating animals and their byproducts!
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Isn’t it you and the Democrats who are causing these problems though? Or did you leave and denounce the Democratic Party? Otherwise why are you tweeting about problems you cause yourself?
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In the face of countless research studies and easy access to nutritional information [apps, websites, back of boxes] as time passes it really does become a matter of choice and reason with the consumer being the ultimate decision maker with school districts needing to step up too
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long-term stress cripples your immune system, Big Media keeps people in high adrenal mode while they work their lives away with little security. It's a recipe for disaster.