America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

> projected would, in that year alone, prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 cases of asthma, reaping up to $46 billion in health benefits.

That's the even crazier part - the savings in health benefits. Not sure what it takes to motivate even the most selfish out there.

I think the crazy part is that the math of 46 billion divided by 804,500 is almost 60k/case.

Maybe this is also highlighting a different problem.

Take away the welfare and stop paying taxes. Then there’s no health benefits to spend on.

Pretty sure this is why they are dismantling Medicaid and Medicare now.

It’s all aligned to put us back into 1890s when billionaires ran everything and people lived in tenement housing.

Couldn't that also be reframed as less profit for the healthcare industry?

The same people that are pushing for increased pollution broadly support banning abortions, cutting down Usaid, and want to ban vaccines.

The evidence points to saving lives is not a priority, or they're just clueless.

One 1-2k/year seems rather cheap to treat an ongoing chronic illness? As asthma will be an ongoing problem when started?

It could be reframed as less loss for the insurance companies

Asthma is a “solved problem” medically, the rest is just rent-seeking.