It serves the ultra-wealthy to have American health discourse dominated by people abandoning actual science-based medicine and instead pitching the health equivalent of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” - well, of course you’ll be healthy if you just avoid seed oils and check all of your packaging for complicated ingredients like xanthan gum. If you do get sick, maybe you just didn’t whole milk and yoga and juice cleanse hard enough about it.

The fact that this is worthless is aside from the point: if you can sell people snake oil en masse, they won’t be clamoring for expensive stuff like public access to oncologists, which means more money for the rich to buy expensive stuff like private access to oncologists, which they need, because widespread deregulation of everything has meant a lot more carcinogens bouncing around as of late

Do you see all of the people around you getting sick? That’s not because of widespread privatization of the medical industry, it’s because they gave their kids Tylenol too early and eat food with Too Many Ingredients

finally, someone’s out there willing to offer a naturopathic solution to millions of unhealthy americans who just need someone to try and goji berry their multiple sclerosis away