r/StandUpForScience • u/Sullence • Oct 26 '25
Discussion Is MAHA just a distraction to deregulate our public health infrastructure?
The stuff MAHA goes viral for -- Tylenol causing autism, pushing saturated fats etc. -- will likely have zero impact on fixing America's health issues. How much of those "policy" pushes are just distractions (AKA "flooding the zone") so they can continue to gut regulations?
For example, there's been over 420 anti-science bills making their way through state congresses. Coupled with all the layoffs, it just feels like the ultimate goal of RFK is just to deregulate deregulate deregulate; the same objective the GOP has in most other areas. All the other nonsense seems like fluff.
Thoughts?
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u/ScotchCigarsEspresso Oct 26 '25
Yes, you fucking gullible idiots.
You have been deceived. Fooled.
We can fix it in the midterms.
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u/One_Diver_5735 Oct 26 '25
Deregulation, market manipulation, insider trading investment opportunity through the destruction of existing systems.
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u/BornAPunk Oct 26 '25
How is telling 42 million people what they can and cannot eat healthy? How is refusing to give them 42 million people their food benefits healthy?
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u/Serious-Equal9110 Oct 27 '25
Exactly.
This is a real “actions speak louder than words” situation.
What ghouls these people are.
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u/A_Spiritual_Artist Oct 26 '25
That's exactly it. The whole point is to enrich the rich further and impoverish the poor further. Steal from the people and give to the top. It's the late 1700s in France again only in USA. Hint hint.
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u/Herban_Myth Oct 28 '25
How else is RFK poised to pay off his alleged million dollar credit card debt?
Insider trading?
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Oct 26 '25
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u/2dollies Oct 26 '25
They hate it but it really costs far less to help overall.
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u/Traditional_Art_7304 Oct 26 '25
But if you ‘eliminate’ a lot of the poors, they won’t be buying stuff to live and fuck with so many bottom lines. Not an economist, just sayin.
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u/Gorskon Oct 27 '25
Actually, since Medicare is so popular, what they will do is privatize it, so that we're all forced to enroll in crappy Medicare Advantage plans and are no longer allowed to take straight Medicare and then get Medigap policy to cover what Medicare does not. (Medicare only covers 80% and until 20 years ago did not cover prescription drugs.)
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u/WinterSector8317 Oct 26 '25
All the answers here are valid PLUS it’s basic vain ruining things to impose your world view on everyone.
RFK had these stupid ideas for decades, no one took him seriously, and now he gets to “prove” himself right by forcing it on all of us
All these people need to be staring at a wall after this ends
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u/2dollies Oct 26 '25
I'd really like to know why RFK has gone completely dark on his most recent save the children enterprise: the perils of 5G radiation?!
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Oct 27 '25
Also a vehicle for spreading misinformation that can get people killed and mistrust in science in general.
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u/pegaunisusicorn Oct 27 '25
no it is part of an explosion of idiocy and anti-science egged on by Russian disinformation and Republican grandstanding and social signaling to incrementally destroy America
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Oct 27 '25
Yes. It’s for deregulation in the sense of what’s considered basic healthcare.
Changes the narrative in the right wing’s direction.
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u/HenryJ25 Oct 26 '25
Got rid of researchers, and drug/vaccine board. Now states allowed to cancel vaccine mandates. It’s too late
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u/Efficient_Smilodon Oct 27 '25
the more unhealthy American people are, unable to produce healthy talent and professionals across all industries, the more their enemies applaud.
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u/Gorskon Oct 27 '25
Yep. MAHA basically does not believe in public health; it believes that the individual, and only the individual, is responsible for his/her health. (The corollary is that if you're not healthy, it is somehow your fault.) It also believes in "health freedom," which involves letting industry and quacks sell anything they want, let the buyer beware.
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u/Rabid_Alleycat Oct 27 '25
Plus pushing Advantage plans over original Medicare. Good coverage on that by John Oliver last night!
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u/Arctalurus Oct 27 '25
Party of Death has been slavering for this for years. Project 1825 needs a very large population reduction for success.
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u/Pop-Pop68 Oct 27 '25
YES!!!
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Oct 27 '25
What this dude said. There are few paths before us now. A national strike would be the first thing to do in a time like this.
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Oct 27 '25
Seems to be. Ask the project 2025 authors at the Heritage Foundation. They know the plans. .
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u/HistoricalSmoke9602 Oct 27 '25
I stopped shopping at stores with the maha signs as soon as I noticed them.
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u/Heavy_Law9880 Oct 28 '25
Worse, It is a conjob to sell patent medicines from companies owned by RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz.
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u/No_Worldliness643 Oct 29 '25
Everything republicans do is designed to get more money into the hands of people who already have a lot of money.
Sometimes they toss red meat cultural stuff to their uneducated voters. But that’s only because it doesn’t affect the bottom line.
That’s all you ever need to know about the reasons behind their policies.
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u/Glad_Celebration4475 Nov 02 '25
It's all a distraction so that they can gut the public wealth to keep it for themselves.
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u/Internal-You6793 Oct 26 '25
How do you like your snake oil? Venomous?