Via their public relations publication masquerading as a news site, STAT, various professional healthcare associations such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics are now threatening a nationwide physician strike to protest RFK Jr.’s attempts to fix the problems that they helped to create in the first place — namely, chronic disease.
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Via STAT News (emphasis added):
On behalf of the misleadingly named Make America Healthy Again movement, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an undisciplined assault on biomedical science and public health: defunding research at the National Institutes of Health, canceling mRNA vaccine studies, purging dedicated government scientists, gutting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and potentially the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and trying to force millions off Medicaid. Kennedy’s recent actions have, in less than a year, substantially degraded the nation’s health security. The brouhaha between Kennedy and (now former) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez is just the latest scene in this unfolding horror flick.
Physicians committed to promoting human health within a scientific frame need to start considering responses that would ordinarily be off the table. Major medical societies like the American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of Physicians need to show some brio. If Kennedy does not resign by Oct. 19, the beginning of National Health Education Week, they should collectively declare a limited physicians’ strike…
To paraphrase Hippocrates, desperate diseases demand desperate remedies. If Kennedy does not resign, if science funding is not restored, and if the government continues to place critical public health functions in the hands of the willfully ignorant, physicians need to act. A limited strike might be just what the doctor ordered.
Denying people healthcare because of your political ideology is surely going to restore confidence in America’s public health system.
The hubris of these people is off the charts.
This is like the Cracker Barrel CEO lady threatening a strike after she tanked the company with her soulless logo redesign.
Physicians, please do strike; not enough Americans understand what ideological lunatics are running the healthcare industry.
Americans spend more on “healthcare” than any nation on Earth. For that investment, they get the worst outcomes in nearly every category among developed nations (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development members) and, in many cases, far worse than even Third World countries with little to no “healthcare” infrastructure.
Via Commonwealth Fund (emphasis added):
Health spending as a share of the overall economy has been steadily increasing since the 1980s, as spending growth has outpaced economic growth. This growth is in part because of medical technologies, rising prices in the health sector, and higher demand for services…
In 2021, the U.S. spent 17.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, nearly twice as much as the average OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] country.
Health spending per person in the U.S. was nearly two times higher than in the closest country, Germany, and four times higher than in South Korea…
Despite high U.S. spending, Americans experience worse health outcomes than their peers around world. For example, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was 77 years in 2020 — three years lower than the OECD average…
In 2020, the infant mortality rate in the U.S. was 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, the highest rate of all the [OECD] countries…
The U.S. has the highest obesity rate… nearly two times higher than the OECD average…
Three of 10 U.S. adults surveyed said at some point in their lifetime they had been diagnosed with two or more chronic conditions such as asthma, cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease, or hypertension. No more than a quarter of residents in the other countries studied reported the same, and the U.S. rate was nearly twice as high as France’s.
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Wouldn’t you know? The effects of physician strikes on public health have actually been studied, and it turns out they’re a boon rather than a detriment.
Via Social Science & Medicine (emphasis added):
A paradoxical pattern has been suggested in the literature on doctors' strikes: when health workers go on strike, mortality stays level or decreases…
We identified 156 articles, seven of which met our search criteria. The articles analyzed five strikes around the world, all between 1976 and 2003. The strikes lasted between nine days and seventeen weeks. All reported that mortality either stayed the same or decreased during, and in some cases, after the strike. None found that mortality increased during the weeks of the strikes compared to other time periods.
So “healthcare” gets brought to a standstill, and it has either no effect or actually improves the health of the population.
Weird how that works.
