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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What about big pharma?
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And?
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That's the truth no one wants to hear. In an opium-like trance, they watch commercials for the toxins that kill them.
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don’t forget big pharma. the sicker we are the richer they get.
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Also robust data now that early childhood stress causes many if not most illness - see @DrGaborMate @MoralLandscapes and #whathappenedtoyou by Bruce Perry and @Oprah
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City planning has a lot to do with it. In a car centric model where you're either a skyrise dweller or in the burbs with poor excuses for public transit, we spoil the air around us while making it more difficult to affordably get around without need of a car.
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Preach!
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Yes and it's time to stop calling the military industrial complex a "defense" industry when the fascist congress pumps more petro dollars into war and weapons than the next 15 countries spend on their military.
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