Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

General Discussion

gulliver

(13,644 posts)

22. Exercise and nutritious food.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:39 AM

Saturday

Our system wants to fix things after they are broken instead of just preventing them from breaking in the first place. I'd argue that if we required recess and PE in all schools (public or private), disallowed phones, and provided nutritious breakfast and lunch to students for free, it would pay off in spades. It's the best "interception point" to try to positively affect aggregate health.

Our policies need to focus on reducing healthcare demand dramatically while making "sick care" available as necessary to all. Just throwing money into the hands of our current, grotesque "sick care" industrial complex is not just a waste of money. It's extremely bad for our health.

Words can't begin to describe the absurdity and grotesqueness of America's health and health care monster. Voltaire would be struck mute.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

1 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

Unwind Your Mind

22 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

If you could change one thing about how American health care is structured, what would it be? [View all] Celerity Friday OP

Public option.... yourout Friday #1

Single Payer for everyone NameAlreadyTaken Friday #2

Agree.👍 anciano Friday #3

Eliminate medical insurers. pecosbob Friday #4

+1 leftstreet Friday #14

Healthcare not sick care. Hope22 Friday #5

Every Jan 1, load a card for every American with $X ($10k? $15K? some amount)... Mark.b2 Friday #6

Nobody in my community goes to the ER for the sniffles. hunter Friday #11

Two times that I ended up in the ER, I was sent... Mark.b2 Friday #16

All those people are showing up in the ER because... hunter Friday #19

Excellent article Diamond_Dog Friday #7

End employers' direct involvement in your healthcare Freddie Friday #8

Obviously, single payer universal is the way to go. BlueTsunami2018 Friday #9

Obviously, I don't have a horse in this race canetoad Friday #10

Many people in the U.S.A. think we have the best health care in the world... hunter Friday #12

I would like to see MorbidButterflyTat Friday #13

Take the profit out of it leftstreet Friday #15

Yes... and lobbyists. IcyPeas Saturday #20

Trump and His Entire Family Unto The 7th Generation..... ColoringFool Friday #17

To be ForgedCrank Friday #18

Many nations have universal health care. hunter Saturday #21

Exercise and nutritious food. gulliver Saturday #22

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»If you could change one t...»Reply #22