Ben Shapiro claims that using taxpayer-funded food stamps for unhealthy food items creates long-term medical costs for taxpayers.

“that putting aside the the difficulties of the person suffering the health issue also tosses more cost at the taxpayer cuz then we end up paying for the medical care.”

Medicare policy should incentivize treatments that have been proven to deliver significant clinical benefit rather than mandating coverage for all FDA-approved drugs.

“I think one way we could kind of make some headway in the affordability is to give medicare the ability to decline to pay for drugs”

Healthcare policy should shift from a prescription-focused, reactive model to a proactive, personalized, and patient-centered cash pay system.

“The only way to do that is to get proactive and predictive and personalized. And this entire ecosystem is just not built to do that. And so my my message and what I'm trying to work for is so much bigger than peptides.”

Dr. Oz's promotion of miracle products on his show was harmful and irresponsible given his reach and training.

“you've got so much you do on your show that makes it different and controversial enough you get lots of views I understand you're in a business of getting viewers but I really implore you to look at the seven and I would ask you to look at the seven lists that the FTC put out on the gut check”

Cutting thousands of jobs at HHS is a dangerous policy that will likely undermine the agency's ability to protect the food supply and approve necessary drugs.

“if you're slashing, these are agencies like the FDA is already truly understaffed like in terms of being able to get regulatory approvals through to be able to make sure that our food supply is safe.”

The effort to cut Social Security and HHS staffing is not about government efficiency but rather an ideological project to diminish government capacity and protect corporate interests.

“There are a number of different goals. One of them is to destroy government capacity to regulate big business. They've dropped a quarter of all enforcement cases. Gutted the CFPB, you know, totally defend the SEC. gutted the IRS so they can't, you know, collect taxes of billionaires, etc.”

Alex Clark argues that taxpayer-funded food stamps should not be used to purchase sugary beverages.

“Taxpayers should also not be subsidizing the obesity epidemic, right? So that's essentially what's going on. When you have the American Beverage Association and people lobbying and saying you know, it's really imperative that soda is on snap. This This hurts uh poor people. Poor people there's no no”

The current US healthcare system should be reformed by prioritizing bipartisanship, reducing costs, and implementing structural changes to address affordability rather than relying on a single ideolog

“You can't do those things without bipartisanship. That's the first thing. The second thing is early on I talked to President Trump in 2016 in November and December 2016 trying to talk to him about how I thought he could improve the American health care system and I was pushing him to focus really on”