Now a heart attack survivor, Bernie Sanders can still win the nomination if he’ll take a politically revolutionary approach. He must stop talking about health care insurance and start talking about health. Medicare-for-all won’t stop heart disease, which starts in the brain with thinking that nutrition and lifestyle don’t matter. Sanders, post-stents, sounds contrite but uneducated, saying he ignored his symptoms – fatigue over the last two months. No, what he ignored were years of campaign food, a grueling schedule and exercise only for his jaws. Pundits say this scare will bring more attention to how old he is. But it’s not the age, it’s the stupidity. Take a break, Bernie, then spread the message that the reason health care costs are so high is that the nation’s health is so low. –Fletcher Farrar, editor and CEO
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2019.
