Healthcare is likely the leading cause of death in the U.S. So it stands to reason the country might be better served with someone other than a doctor at the helm, someone who can wean Americans off healthcare at least to some extent.
Maybe you're correct since the overwhelming majority of American who pass away are seen by doctors immediately prior to death.
I had in mine the established third leading cause of death based on medical error, now add deaths due to standards of care. See: 2020.
Pretty funny that Dems are losing it over RFK when these are the people he's replacing. RFK is a stallion for 70 years old. Do we really want some overweight, sickly looking tg to be making decisions at HHS?
RFK Jr on abortion: "Kennedy has since said that abortion should be legal until a fetus "is viable outside the womb" and supports the codification of Roe v. Wade, which was replaced by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dobbs decision." "If confirmed, RFK, Jr. would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history," Pence wrote." RFK Jr. nomination to HHS slammed by Mike Pence over abortion stance
A presidential candidate for the Dems is now a potential in Trump’s administration. Honestly, that is not a bad thing. There are multiple lifelong Dems within the bubble. I am willing to give him a chance. 1. He is for a better food supply. Alright, cool. What is there to be mad about? He wants to get forever chemicals out of our food. Great. Who stands to lose? Big Corps and Food Science. Yes, food security is not on his radar yet, but it will be. Is he capable of making a dent in the American fast food culture? Maybe. 2. Yeah, he’s an anti-vax guy. You think in 4 yrs (or less) he will be able to turn the world upside down on vaccines? Nope. I am not as worried about this. He will be in charge of the health of those in the round-up (not the herbicide). So, buckle up for Tom Homan and RFK Jr to get ‘er done.
I am very anti-abortion, but in today's world you have to find the best possible candidate and understand you are going to have to accept certain aspects of the candidates belief that you do not like. There were things about Trump i do not like, but when compared to kammie it was a no brainer for me to vote for Trump
Nor can he. However, he can cloud vax efficacy with questionable rhetoric. Damage is more about picking and closing his words.
JFK Jr. is controlled opposition. There is nothing to vaccinate for. Vaccines, Remdesivir, horse paste, HCQ … all the same thing. Pointless and possibly harmful but lining the pockets of Big Pharma fat cats.
And you’re entitled to your medieval, albeit widespread belief that an errant sneeze can kill Grandma.
RFK, Jr's nomination could end up facing opposition from Senate Republicans and it's not because of his conspiratorial theories or his long history as an anti-vaxxer. Probably because of his background as an environmental attorney Kennedy is strongly opposed to ultra processed food and food additives, not a position with that will sit well with the food industry and Republican legislators beholden to the industry for campaign contributions. Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Alienate His New G.O.P. Allies Boxes of brightly colored breakfast cereals, vivid orange Doritos and dazzling blue M&Ms may find themselves under attack in the new Trump administration. In excoriating such grocery store staples and their mysterious ingredients, Robert F. Kennedy tapped into a zeitgeist of widening appeal for healthy foods to curb obesity and disease that helped propel President-elect Donald J. Trump to select him to oversee the country’s vast health agency. “We are betraying our children by letting these industries poison them,” Mr. Kennedy said at a campaign rally on Nov. 2, to raucous applause. As Mr. Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, he would have far-reaching authority over the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates about 80 percent of the nation’s food supply. That includes shaping regulations on packaging that declares something “healthy” or discloses the amounts of sugar, salt and other ingredients in most packaged foods. But in vowing to upend the nation’s food system, Mr. Kennedy is taking a direct shot at Big Food, one of the country’s most powerful industries whose traditional allies are Republicans. Even something as simple as removing artificial dyes is likely to result in a knockdown battle for the multibillion-dollar food sector, which is wary of higher manufacturing costs or a dip in sales of products favored by loyal consumers.
This is what amused me about RFK “going wild” at the FDA or that he’d come in and copy-paste the “approved foods” from Europe, banning 2000 more ingredients or whatever # he noted. The reason our list of banned ingredients fails to include these chemicals isn’t because of some crippling bureaucracy failing to act, it’s because Republicans exist! Sounds like cancer’s back on the menu boys, aka when populism encounters reality. In a few weeks after the updated talking points come down, they’ll be chanting “Red 30, my body my choice”. “Yellow 5, hell no we wont go”.
You guys are funny. No one who has a medical emergency seeks out a politician, message board poster, or RFK. Yet half the country wants to ignore the experts they turn to when their life depends on it for these ridiculous blowhards. That said, better food standards work for me and the democrats, I assure you.
