President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) testified for a second time on Capitol Hill on Thursday after appearing before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday.
“The nation is ready for change and recognizes this is a unique inflection moment,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in his opening statement to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. “Our country will sink beneath a sea of desperation and debt if we don’t change course and ask the fundamental question: Why are health care costs so high in the first place?”
Kennedy, citing the CDC, emphasized chronic illness as “the obvious answer” with “over 90 percent of health care spending” going towards “managing chronic disease.”
“The president’s pledge is not to make some Americans healthy again, but to make all Americans healthy again,” Kennedy said. “[W]e will bring…
