America’s Healthcare on Life Support?
The United States spends $12,555 per
capita annually on healthcare (2022) — more than any other nation. The next highest: Switzerland at $8,049.
74% of Americans are overweight or obese.
77% of young Americans are unfit for military service due to obesity, drug use, or poor health.
Total U.S. healthcare expenditures in 2012
was $2.8 trillion. It reached $4.5 trillion in 2022. It is projected to jump to $7.7 trillion by 2032.
One in two Americans will have cancer in
their lifetimes.
The incidence of Alzheimer’s
disease is projected to jump 50% by 2050, to 13.8 million patients.
Cancer among young adults has
jumped 79% since 1990.
U.S. fertility has dropped 1%-2% annually since at least 2014, due to lower testosterone levels and other factors. U.S. fertility dropped to an all-time record low in 2023.
About 45% of the Food and Drug Administration’s budget is paid for by Big Pharma in the form of user fees — money the FDA collects from the corporations it regulates.
One child in 36 is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. In 2000, that number stood at one in 150.
U.S. lifespans on average are four years less than comparable to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development nations (Canada, France, Germany, etc.).
It’s Time for Healthcare Revolution
a broad range of activists and reformers tell Newsmax they see a unique opportunity for a “MAHA moment” — a chance to bring generational change to the U.S. healthcare paradigm. And the key, they say, is what
happened after a deranged 20-year-old crawled onto a roof in Butler, Pennsylvania, and cen- tered the crosshairs of his assault rifle on former President Donald J. Trump. When Trump emerged from
beneath the pile of Secret Service agents, his face bloodied, a near- miss that came just a fraction of an inch from ending his life, a shocked nation gazed on trans- fixed as he shouted: “Fight! Fight! Fight!” That iconic moment shook up the election. And Trump’s defiant battle cry may have set the stage for a healthcare revolu-
tion that could endure long after the shifting political winds have faded. As soon as the at- tempted assassination occurred, author and health entrepreneur Calley Means sensed a historic opportunity was at hand. As a leading
advocate promoting a fundamental U.S. healthcare makeover, he’d regularly con- versed with both the Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaigns for some time. And he’d noticed the Trump team displayed a vis- ceral interest in challenging the current healthcare paradigm. He later told podcaster Joe
Rogan that immediately after he learned of the assassination attempt, “I had what I can call a
VICIOUS CIRCLE Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says pharma executives, consultants, and lobbyists cycle in and out of federal agencies that regulate Big Pharma.
spiritual, out-of-body experience. I felt the need to call Robert.” That “Robert” was the Ken-
nedy healthcare iconoclast with whom Means had struck up a burgeoning friendship. “There are rare moments in
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