Vivek Ramaswamy on Health Care

Invest in up-front mental health resources

"A great ethical opportunity to do what is actually right and to set a positive example that brings us together across demographic and party lines to address a problem that knows no demographic," Ramaswamy said.

Ramaswamy explained his background on the business side of the biotech industry, adding that both his wife and his mother are doctors. "Ensure that every patient who does suffer from a mental health condition is able to access treatment," Ramaswamy said. He believes that spending more up front on mental health resources could help lower total costs and prevent crises. "We actually bear greater costs if we fail to address upfront," Ramaswamy said, adding that early intervention would be a great "ROI," return-on-investment, in the long run.

Replace sick-care system with preventative medicine

Vivek Ramaswamy: There's something that's awful that's happening in our healthcare system. They'll pay for anything, like feeding tubes, doctors to be pill pushers, but for the procedures that can actually make these patients better, we have a broken healthcare system that doesn't pay for it. So, here's the answer. We don't have a healthcare system in this country. We have a sick care system. We need to start having diverse insurance options in a competitive marketplace that cover actual health, preventative medicine, diet, exercise, lifestyle and otherwise. And here's how we deliver that: end the antitrust exemptions for health insurance companies. That's where the competitive marketplace begins. That's crony capitalism, and that's the answer.

Gut the FDA and its corrupt regulations

Perhaps strangely given his background, he initially talked very little about the pharmaceutical industry or the FDA, but that changed last month. He said he would look to "gut" the FDA, which he referred to as being "corrupt."

"Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional. I will rescind them accordingly," he wrote. "For years I was coached by industry veterans not to speak out against FDA: if you anger FDA, they will punish you by blackballing review of your drug review applications. 'FDA never forgets' is a quietly-whispered, well-known pharma industry adage. Now I speak freely as a citizen."

Gender dysphoria is suffering; we're creating more of it

Gender dysphoria, for the rare few people who have suffered it, is a condition of suffering. My question is, why on earth are we going out of our way to create even more of it? And there's no doubt that the cultural movement in this country, even education, is creating more gender dysphoria.