A study found that there was a dramatic spike in cancer diagnoses when Americans hit age 65. Why? Because they finally qualified for Medicare and could afford to see a doctor. People should be able to go to the doctor when they need to, not when they age into... coverage. It’s time for Medicare for All.show more

Congresswoman, do you know what happens to people as they age? Biologically, I mean. They get removed from the gene pool. Not in the Darwin Awards sense — in the plain evolutionary sense: once you are past the age of reliably making and raising children, what happens to your body stops mattering to the next generation's genes. Nature quits taking notes. Hold that thought. Because it is the ACTUAL reason cancer climbs with age — and it has nothing to do with a Medicare card. THE STUDY YOU CITED, NOW ACTUALLY READ You told Dr. Singh that cancer "spikes at 65" because people finally qualify for Medicare and can see a doctor. One little problem. The study you are waving around shows a spike in DIAGNOSES at 65. Not a spike in cancer. Detection — not disease. Those tumors did not politely wait outside the DMV until somebody's 65th birthday cleared. They were already growing. What changes at 65 is that people who kept putting off a colonoscopy finally get one. Read that back slowly, because you just made my argument for me: earlier detection is not prevention. The disease was already there. Handing everyone a government card does not bend the biological curve one degree — it only changes WHEN we catch what was already happening. That is a screening statistic wearing a Medicare-for-All costume, and the costume is about as convincing as a solar-powered flashlight. Before I lose the Christians I know a lot of you are already reaching for the back button the second the word “evolution” shows up — hang with me for thirty seconds. Most of what you were taught about evolution in school was either incomplete or deliberately twisted. The Bible is not against every form of evolution. It is against *macro*-evolution: the idea that humans evolved from other animals. That claim is the one Scripture rejects. What the Bible *does* affirm — and what we actually observe in the lab and the field every single day — is "micro"-evolution: variation and adaptation "within" a kind. Genesis 1 repeats the phrase “after its kind” like a drumbeat. Noah was told to take two of every "kind", not every species. Then God commanded them to “be fruitful and multiply.” That command was never limited to head-count. It included the spreading out of variation inside the kind: wolves becoming the entire spectrum of dogs, the single cat kind producing lions, tigers, house cats, and everything in between, the original cattle kind giving us Angus, Holstein, and Texas Longhorn. Those changes are real, measurable, and completely consistent with Scripture. They are also the only kind of evolutionary change we have ever actually watched happen. The mechanisms I’m about to describe — mutation accumulation after reproductive age and antagonistic pleiotropy — sit comfortably inside that biblical framework. They explain why bodies wear out "after" the job of raising the next generation is done. They do not require one kind turning into another. They simply describe the bill that comes due once natural selection stops caring. WHY AGE EQUALS DISEASE (THE PART THE HEARING SKIPPED) Here is the biology your panel breezed past. Two mechanisms. Both settled science, both older than any government program. Mutation accumulation — Peter Medawar. Harmful mutations that only switch on AFTER reproductive age are nearly invisible to natural selection, because the people carrying them already had their kids and passed the genes along. So they pile up. Generation after generation. Late-life cancer is the bill finally coming due. Antagonistic pleiotropy — George Williams. Genes that help you young (fast growth, aggressive cell division, a roaring immune system) tend to hurt you old. Selection loves the early win and shrugs at the late cost. The very machinery that builds a strong 25-year-old can grow a tumor in a 65-year-old. That is why cancer, heart disease, AND Alzheimer's all climb with age together. Not insurance paperwork. Evolution stopped caring decades before anyone hits the Medicare window. Quinn's 16th Law of Liberalism fits you like a glove here — liberals view the world the way they think it SHOULD be, not the way it is. You WANT the cause to be lack of coverage, because lack of coverage has a government solution. The real cause is four billion years old and does not take amendments. THE ONE THING THAT KEPT US HEALTHY LONGER (AND WHAT YOU WANT TO REPLACE) There is exactly ONE evolutionary reason humans stay vigorous well past our breeding years while most mammals just drop at the finish line. The grandmother. Kin selection — Hamilton's rule, rb greater than c, for the folks in the back. Grandparents who stayed healthy and present raised the grandchildren. Food. Protection. Knowledge. Free childcare that actually loves the kid. That family bond is the only reason nature ever bothered keeping the old ones running at all. So watch what the modern left proposes. Cradle-to-grave government care for the old. Universal daycare for the young. Peel both ends off the family and hand them to a bureaucracy. That is not "helping families" — that is dissolving the exact structure that made us human, then billing me for the knockoff. Grandparents raising grandchildren is not a Norman Rockwell accident. It is the blueprint. You want to bulldoze the blueprint and call it progress. A mooncalf could see where that road ends. Congressman Albert Herlong read the 45 Communist Goals for America into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963. Goal number 40: "Discredit the family as an institution." I am not saying you read the list. I am saying your platform keeps quietly checking the boxes. A FEW HONEST QUESTIONS Medicare for All is a confession, Congresswoman. You already passed your healthcare masterpiece. It was called the ACA. Your party just shut the government down defending it. And now you are on television using a study to admit it never actually got people to the doctor? Pick a lane. Either the ACA worked, or it did not — you do not get to sell it for a decade and then weaponize its failure to justify the NEXT trillion-dollar program. That is muddying the water to make it look deep. And instead of nationalizing one-sixth of the economy, why not let people OWN their care? Expand HSAs. Fund direct primary care. Put the patient in charge instead of a federal claims office with all the responsiveness of a waterproof teabag. But patient control means less bureaucratic control for you — and control is rather the whole point, isn't it? So the real question: what have you actually DELIVERED for your district? A bill, a result, one line on a scoreboard that was not just another promise to spend money we do not have? I will wait. But what do I know. I am only a science teacher who wrote the anatomy and physiology textbook my students learn from, a former paramedic, and apparently the only person in this exchange who read past the headline of your own study. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump @RepJayapal @TPUSA @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks

Socialized medicine leads to insane wait times, stupid. I thought Obamacare was supposed to fix the healthcare system. 🤔

My mom waited 5 years in excruciating hip pain before she got hip-replacement surgery, because she needed Medicare first. It’s disgraceful that we can’t afford proper medical care here because billionaires and the politicians they buy are hoarding all the wealth. #Medicare4All

CT WOULDN'T LET ME HAVE TESTS! I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. OBAMACARE AFFECTED ALL OF US!

OBAMA CARE WOULDN'T ALLOW ME A COLONOSCOPY! SAID I WASN'T DUE ONE! I FINALLY WENT OUT OF NETWORK AT MY OWN EXPENSE!

The Party of Science doesn't know that Medicare for All doesn't cure Cancer.

Jayapal: People get diagnosed with cancer at 65 because they finally have coverage → Medicare for All. Reality check: Countries with single-payer systems have longer waits for specialists and imaging. The U.S. already spends more per capita than almost anyone. Expanding a system with known bottlenecks doesn’t magically create more doctors or faster care. It would add $13 billion to our debt and would NOT help anyone but illegal aliens ....

Medicaid Obamacare SNAP Daycare Student Loans Until you remedy the fraud riddled throughout government programs you can forget expanding the potential for even more fraud.

Now JAYAPAL is a cancer expert?? Hysterical that she thinks cancer is waiting for you to get on Medicare!

So Obamacare really is terrible. Thats for the confirmation.

Kiss our butts. Why should everyone get Medicare. We should have what Congress has. Congress should be on Medicare, you work for us! Why do Cadillac plans & throw us crumbs? Even federal employees get Tri Care.

Funny there is no medical degree in her professional history! I guess she’s lying again!

Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that cancer diagnoses jump at 65 because people suddenly grow tumors the second they get a Medicare card. Revolutionary science from Rep. Jayapal. The study shows a spike in diagnoses—mostly early-stage ones—because people who put off colonoscopies, mammograms, and PSA tests finally schedule them when the government starts footing the bill. The cancers were already there. Biology doesn’t check your insurance card. Age is the single biggest risk factor for cancer because mutations accumulate over decades and natural selection stops giving a damn after reproductive years. That curve has existed for as long as multicellular life. Medicare didn’t invent it. You treat a detection artifact as proof that the entire private system is a death trap and the only fix is single-payer. Classic. Never mind that the U.S. already spends more per capita than almost anyone, already has higher cancer survival rates than most pure single-payer countries, and that systems like Canada’s and the UK’s are famous for waiting lists measured in months for the exact diagnostic tests you’re pretending will magically appear for free under Medicare for All. You passed the ACA. You spent a decade selling it as the solution to exactly this problem. Now you’re citing residual under-65 access gaps as the reason we need to nationalize another sixth of the economy. That’s not evidence-based policy—that’s moving the goalposts after your last grand plan underdelivered, then demanding an even bigger blank check. People should be able to see doctors without financial ruin. That’s not controversial. Pretending the only way to achieve it is to put Washington in charge of every doctor’s office, every imaging machine, and every treatment decision is pure ideology dressed up as compassion. The tumors don’t care about your press release.

Yes, the ultimate failure of Obamacare! Yet she defends the ACA that isn't affordable. They shut down the government to defend subsidies for then premiums of the rich. Not even the care, the premiums! So after you pay the high premiums you still have a huge deductible! Gotcha!

That wouldn't make healthcare less expensive. It just shifts who pays - and that's the taxpayers. So, NOPE.

I wonder how many of these cancer diagnoses are misdiagnosed.

It’s the Covid shot. Autoimmune issues spiked after people got the shot.

Cancer risk rises with age because cells accumulate DNA mutations over decades — and the body’s DNA repair mechanisms become less effective. Roughly 60% of new cancers are diagnosed in people 65 and older, even in countries with universal healthcare.

Why never Democrats?

You are lying again as usual. “A” study..as opposed to 10’s or hundreds of studies. AS PEOPLE GET OLDER THE CHANCE OF CANCER GOES UP. Damn you are dumb as you look

Is this “study” about “dramatic spike in cancer diagnosis” the prelude to pushing for widespread cancer vaccines? Like the ones Moderna was founded in 2010 to develop that got a funding surge under Barack Obama? You remember- the same Moderna that had a specific 19 nucleotide sequence patent applied 2016, that just happened to be a 100% reverse-complement match within the SARS-CoV-2 genome spanning the furin cleavage site region of the spike gene. Isn’t it convenient how that all fell in line for Moderna to be able to roll out the vaccines at warp speed when COVID 19 pandemic spread across the world? I would be interested to read this study you speak of and look into who funded it and the methods by which that conclusion was obtained. Did you get that study from someone in your network of friends and family that are in Biomedical research? The increased uptick in cancer diagnosis is undoubtedly due to other factors beyond this oversimplification. Details matter, Representative. Informed consumers don’t take anything at face value and like to read for ourselves to scrutinize every source, every time. Pragmatic people do not take anyone’s word for anything - ESPECIALLY if the information is being served up by a politician like yourself that is known to code switch depending on who is listening and omits information that doesn’t fit the narrative of political agenda. It is true, that increased visits lead to increased diagnosis- but that is not the FULL truth of what leads to a person having cancer. You reduce everything down… and in this statement you are gearing up to yell at anyone who doesn’t back your poorly planned “Medicare for All” bill by then arguing that if someone doesn’t back your bill, they will then be responsible for people dying of cancer. You, after all, are always seemingly positioning yourself with the vibe of an anointed “savior”, the “humanitarian” that is the “morally superior” person in the argument unwilling to back down or soften any angle of your policies, even if counter arguments bring up evidence, historical data, and are applied logically. You simply don’t budge. The “progreSS” you’ve made with Seattle is evidence of the umm “work” you do- if we could call it that. I cannot say that ever piece of legislation that carries your signature is a total failure, because it’s impossible for an average citizen to have read them all - but the policies and bills you have passed in Seattle and advocated for in Congress are either full of bad ideas, or they have loopholes that can be extorted down the line to advance your “cause” of “progreSSively” accumulating more power at the top politically. You really think that’s all you need to make everything better- is for you to be fully in charge. You needn’t look at your policies and take in new information, now- you never do- you are so well educated and have it all right in your head about how to fix the world that all you have to do is campaign, right? “Climate Justice” … tell us again how “supremacy” is the reason why people on the globe have summer heat, and the only solution for “justice” is increased public IRA/EPA funds to go to on the ground activism to push extremism… now THAT story has true comedic value. 🤡 The 1990’s story you told about child labor being an economic issue- while laughing at others who view it as a human rights issue- that story I didn’t enjoy. What married 30 year old feminist has a 12 year old and a 14 year old clean their house for 6 weeks- and says NOTHING about the vermillion stripe in their hair you noted as indicating they were MARRIED. I would have paid those girls to read, write, and learn mathematics while I cleaned and did laundry for those six weeks. If you had taught those girls and invested in them- instead of investing in implementing globalist, Ivy League ideals- maybe the girls would have gone on to teach everyone in the village & changed many lives. You’re far removed from reality, and it shows.

First, she supported ACA (Obamacare) and now is admitting it was a failure. Secondly, she can't name one program, run by the govt, that is run efficiently and without fraud. Thirdly, she thinks taxpayer pockets are as deep as the ocean!

You losers passed the UNAFFORDABLE Care Act, traitor. It’s all your damn fault

No, the spike is from @TheDemocrats mandated vaccines, you Nazi. You all killed old people, so you could rig an election, and then you mandated old people get vaccines that cause turbo cancer. You Democrats make Dr Mengele and Adolf Hitler look like child’s play. How do you sleep at night?

If Democrats hadn't been stealing taxpayer dollars (USAID, etc.) for decades, there is enough money to give healthcare and prescription coverage to all America citizens. Know that 50% of the healthcare budget goes to pay salaries of the people who run it. 25% gets stolen by the people who run it. Only 25% gets to the patient.

Medicare for all is not even feasible until you deport all illegal aliens, and do not let legal resident noncitizens participate! And it never makes sense to let our government control any industry! It is never run efficiently and ends up getting abused!

New Democrat Talking Point: Cancer = Trump’s fault 🥹

I call BS. She’s a lying POS.

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Imagine being deluded enough to think more government involvement would ever make anything better or less expensive.

Democrats destroyed our Healthcare system with obamacare and now claim they'll clean up the mess they made. Also, forced covid vaccines on the elderly.

Huh funny how fauci and gates researched covid it got released and elderly died. Democraps population control.

Why do illegal migrants get Medicare and Americans don't?