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Perry Johnson:
We need competition across state lines for all insurance
Let's take medicine. For example, how many people think that medical care is too expensive. Do you know that when I started my company in 1987 I was paying $18 a month for all my people and it was $100 deductible. Now, that same insurance is
$533 a month with literally a $2500 deductible. And the reason for that is that we have allowed our cost for medical care to go through the road. We need to have competition across state lines for all insurance carriers.
Source: C-SPAN coverage of 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 11, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
Would put Dr. Fauci on trial over COVID vaccines
Kennedy argues that reporters, as well as former chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci and other officials, should have at least expressed skepticism earlier on, when it became clear that vaccines did not completely stop the spread of the virus. "I
would like to see a trial," Kennedy said of Fauci. He said Fauci had been obligated to use the best data in making decisions and he did not believe that he had done so. Fauci has not been accused of breaking the law by any U.S. enforcement agency.
Source: Newsweek on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 20, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
Gender dysphoria is suffering; we're creating more of it
Gender dysphoria for most of our history, although it's in the DSM-5, has been characterized as a mental health disorder. And I don't think it's compassionate to affirm that. I think that's cruelty. Gender dysphoria, for the rare few people who
have suffered it, is a condition of suffering. My question is, why on earth are we going out of our way to create even more of it? And there's no doubt that the cultural movement in this country, even education, is creating more gender dysphoria.
Source: Meet the Press on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Apr 30, 2023
Francis Suarez:
Focus on healthy lifestyle through physical fitness
He would work to promote a nationwide campaign focused on a healthy lifestyle through sleeping, eating and physical fitness. Healthy activities would give people a more natural high,
Suarez argued, instead of those people seeking the high over and over with opioids."No candidate will give you this plan," Suarez said. "Very different answer than you'll hear from most people."
Source: WMUR on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 18, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
Gut the FDA and its corrupt regulations
His financial success predominantly comes from his Roivant biotech business. The core idea behind the Roivant clusters was buying up old pharma castoffs and either retrying in the clinic or tweaking into a new area not tried before. Many of Roivant's
companies were eventually sold off with some having to pivot after major flops.Perhaps strangely given his background, he initially talked very little about the pharmaceutical industry or the FDA, but that changed last month. He said he would look
to "gut" the FDA, which he referred to as being "corrupt."
"Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional. I will rescind them accordingly," he wrote. "For years I was coached by industry veterans not to speak
out against FDA: if you anger FDA, they will punish you by blackballing review of your drug review applications. 'FDA never forgets' is a quietly-whispered, well-known pharma industry adage. Now I speak freely as a citizen."
Source: Fierce Pharma e-mag on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 15, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
Public option not right thing, unless part of single-payer
Kennedy was asked whether, given the hostility to the pharmaceutical companies he often expresses while talking about vaccines, he'd be willing to support a "public option" for pharmaceuticals. He immediately dismissed this, saying, "Oh, I don't think
that's the right thing," and switching the subject to how to insulate regulatory agencies from the industry's influence. He didn't even pause to explain why it wouldn't be the right thing. Apparently, he finds the suggestion too outlandish to consider.
Last month, Kennedy was asked if he would support "universal health care through a Medicare for All program." In his response, Kennedy shifted the goalposts in a more moderate direction, redefining "single-payer" health care to mean something more
like the Obama/Biden "public option" proposal. He said, "my highest ambition would be to have a single-payer program where people who want to have private programs can go ahead and do that, but to have a single program that is available to everybody."
Source: Jacobin e-zine on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 9, 2023
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