“RFK, Jr. asks if nation can come together over health; Democrat senators say No.”
Originally published on the author’s Substack
Furious Dems launch coordinated attack on the son of Dem hero Robert F. Kennedy in a two-day series of hearings before Senate committees. Everything now depends on Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana
“Today, America’s overall health is in grievous condition. Over 70 percent of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese. Diabetes is 10 times more prevalent than it was during the 1960s. Cancer among young people is rising 1 to 2 percent a year. Autoimmune diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer’s, asthma, ADHD, depression, addiction and a host of other physical and mental health conditions are all on the rise, some of them exponentially.”
This was the start of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s plea to the members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday to focus their attention on the declining health of the American people.
It was the first of two hearings on Kennedy’s nomination to serve as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
America is sick and getting sicker, Kennedy told senators on Wednesday morning.
“The United States has worse health than any other developed nation,” he said, “Yet we spend more on healthcare — double and in some cases triple — as other countries.”
Over half of our countrymen are “chronically ill,” he added.
It’s not just the cost, he said. It’s the human tragedy.
“A healthy person has a thousand dreams: A sick person has only one.”
The reason health costs in our country are so high, said Kennedy, is chronic disease — a term that includes diabetes, heart disease, asthma and often cancer.
There is no single culprit in chronic disease, he told senators, in what appeared to be an effort to distance himself from a focus on vaccines, which have been a main focus of his advocacy through his organization, Children’s Health Defense.
“News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither. I am pro-safety,” he said, going on to repeat a line he’s used in numerous interviews: “I worked for years to bring awareness about the mercury and toxic chemicals in fish. And no one called me anti-fish.”
But he was also resolute:
“In my advocacy I’ve often disturbed the status quo by asking uncomfortable questions. Well, I’m not going to apologize for that. We have massive health problems in this country that we must face honestly. And the first thing I’ve done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and to help America’s children.”
Kennedy listed the things he would do if confirmed:
- Make sure tax dollars support health foods;
- Scrutinize the chemical additives in our food supply;
- Remove financial conflicts of interest from our agencies;
- Create an honest, unbiased, gold-standard science at HHS, accountable to the President, the Congress and to the American people;
- Reverse the chronic disease epidemic and put the nation back on the road to good health.
One of the last lines of his prepared testimony was an appeal to the senators on the committee, with whom he’d met in one-on-one meetings in their offices in the weeks prior to the hearing:
“I came away from our conversations confident that we can put aside our divisions for the sake of a healthier America,” Kennedy told the senators.
Democrats had other ideas.
One by one, they came out swinging.
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