Subsidize Big Corporations or Your Health Insurance?

October 31, 2014 Culinary Medicine, Health News 0 Comments

Let us hope that the scale of Justice is blind to the influence of the Koch brothers.

Last year, 110 billion dollars was given to corporations from federal, state, and local governments, including the corporation run by the Koch brothers.  Those same Koch brothers who are supporting and bankrolling the current challenge to the Affordable Care Act, essentially stating that subsidizing individual health insurance policies is unconstitutional.

I don’t pretend to make sense of politics. But let me make one thing clear:
We live in the wealthiest country in the world, and healthcare should be a right, not just for the privileged few.  

We need to change the structure of healthcare- we need to encourage a relationship based model like the Nuka Model of healthcare in Alaska, run by SouthCentral Foundation. Where they have better “compliance,” lower hospital admissions, better quality of care, more satisfaction, and lower costs than any healthcare system out there. The cost to the customer/owners (what many call patients) – zip.

There is nothing wrong with having the government subsidize healthcare policies- or provide them for all. But that is not the end of it. The real change in healthcare comes from fostering the relationship between the providers, the hospitals, and the patients.

Cato Institute

Cato Institute, funded by the Koch brothers, is against the federal government providing subsidies for people to purchase health insurance.

About the Author
You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. Dr. Simpson, a weight loss surgeon, is an advocate of culinary medicine. He believes teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and surgeon “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.