Steve Cortez

We spend more money on health care than any nation in history.

And yet, America is sicker than ever.

Half of our kids now live with chronic health issues.

That number was 1% a few decades ago.

Our model is not even designed to prevent disease or to cure it.

Instead, it is designed to manage sickness, to keep you alive, but not thriving.

Nearly 40% of young adults are pre-diabetic.

Autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 in the 1980s to 1 in 36 today.

Life expectancy just hit a 20-year low.

What's going on here?

And how do we make America healthy again?

Right.

Well, listen, it's a moral and societal imperative that we get healthy and strong again.

We cannot have a strong nation without strong citizens.

But it's also an economic necessity, as we've been discussing.

And then furthermore, if we do the right thing in this arena, we're going to reap the political benefits because this is the clearest path, the clearest and widest path

to further growing our coalition.

Why?

Because there's a lot of folks who may not call themselves MAGA or right wing, may not agree with us on a lot of issues, but they sure want to be healthier and they want their children to be healthier, particularly a lot of credentialed women, for example.

They agree with us on this topic.