As expected, Robert F. Kennedy and Junior's Ministry of Health and Welfare's confirmation hearing have created a series of tense exchange and drama.
The Senate Finance Committee was held in a room packed with a long hearing of 4 hours on Wednesday. The two protests confused the process, urging security to escort them. After the second such incident, Chairman Mike Klapo (R-IDAHO) warned that nobody would be quiet.
There are many things in this confirmation, and everyone who pays attention knows it. It shakes things with Kennedy's health care system, threatening to confuse the systems that are sick, corrupt, incompetent, capturing, and useless systems that have been sick of Americans.
Of course, the ideal and constitutional remedy is to eliminate the positions operated by Kennedy and close the entire public health of the federal government. In the US Constitution, the Federal Health Bureau Organization is zero. Furthermore, the food and medical systems that Americans are sick can withstand centralization. Limiting health and food regulations to local and state levels can make citizens easier to know what is happening and to deal with corruption.
Nevertheless, for now, efforts are focusing on reforms of the whole giant, and many people who questioned Kennedy have almost indicated that they are almost interested in achieving it. They seemed more interested in storing the status quo.
Democratic attack
From the beginning, in his opening statement, ranking members Ron Wyden (D-ROER) established the role of the Democratic Party. He immediately accused Kennedy that “the theory of conspiracy theory, especially the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, is to Quack Sharratin.” Kennedy added Widen, who made his life work to remove the vaccine.
The long history of doubting Kennedy's vaccine was a major theme in many Democratic attacks. But during the hearing he denied that he was an anti -vaccine several times.
Kennedy was held on his normal routine to explain the status of the American collective health. He said that more than 70 % of American adults and more than one -third of children were overweight or obese. Diabetes is 10 times more common than today than in the 1960s. Youth cancer rises 1-2 % a year. Self -immunity and neural development issues, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, ADHD, depression, poisoning, and other health conditions are all increasing. More than half of Americans are chronically ill. “The United States is getting worse than any other country, but we spend a lot of money on healthcare.” According to Kennedy, 90 % of medical expenses are assigned to manage chronic diseases. It is a place where it is being. He added:
In this country, there are large -scale health problems that you need to face honestly. And the first thing I went to every morning for the past 20 years is to pray to God with my knees. He puts me in the position of ending the trend of chronic diseases and helping American children.
Kennedy plan
Kennedy laid out what he would do as a secretary of HHS. He supports healthy foods in the United States, is properly investigated chemicals in food, and has been deleted for financial conflicts between regulatory employees, and honestly unbalanced, transparent. Make sure that “Gold Standard Science”, which is responsible, is created on HHS. He answered when he was asked about the meaning of “Gold Standard Science”:
Gold Standard means a real scientific study by duplication of research that rarely occurs in NIH (National Institute of Health). … It is necessary to confirm that all science will be published in raw data. It is necessary to make sure that the peer review is also available. … The reasons that people do not trust public health agencies are because they are not trusted.
Kennedy pointed out that NIH had funded 800 research based on an illegal hypothesis. He also emphasized the need for transparency in the agency.
His exchange with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) began at an unusual moment before he was nervous. First, Warren asked if he would not receive money from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, or medical products for four years after leaving HHS. Anyway, he added that the possibility of being tempted in such a way is very low. She then asked if he would promise to refrain from appealing a pharmaceutical company for four years since he left the office. He refused, and they talked to each other. “I'm not going to promise that no pharmaceutical company or anyone will sue,” Kennedy replied. Warren continued to say that he had the power to undercut vaccines and vaccine makers as a secretary of HHS.
“Anti -VAXXER”
The story repeated during the hearing is that in 2019, the Kennedy anti -Vaxes, which brought more than 80 people in Samoa, tried to explain repeatedly while the Senator was talking about him. It was accusation that it was a feature.
Medicade and Medicare Services have also appeared. Kennedy said that the issue of Medicade was that the premium and deduction amount were too high, the network was too narrow, and that doctors and high -quality hospitals often did not accept it. Some of the senior members of Ben Lugan (DN.M.) tried to neglect the broken Medicade.
SSRI topics have also appeared. Senator Masha Blackburn (R-Tenn) stated that Tennessee's Medicade Program spent $ 90 million in ADHD treatment for 417,000 children in 2024. Both agree that HHS should prioritize alternative solutions such as counseling, behavioral therapy, and community -based interventions. Kennedy pointed out that 15 % of American youth are taking Adelor or other ADHD drugs.
However, Rafael Warnock (D-Ga) did not agree to the suspect's SSRI's view, but accused Kennedy of tying school guns to antidepressants.
He started with his favorite song when he was a member of Senator Burnie Sanders (I-VT.). He tried to make Kennedy agree that Universal Healthcare is right, but useless. Kennedy said that healthcare is different from free speech because of its relevant costs. However, they agreed that the Americans should pay for the fact that they pay much higher than Europeans at a much higher price than Europeans.
“Anti -science”
The ears of the ears of the tone between the Democratic Party were probably the best in the exchange with Maria Kantwell (D-Wash). She asked if he knew how harmful his “anti -science” view was. Kennedy pushed back, stating that the evidence -based science was exactly what he subscribed to. He immediately pointed out that chronic diseases cause 92 % of the United States, but NIH has not invested in the area. Kantwell responded to the consequences of “interesting points” before returning to the script.
The hearing ended with applause. What happened was not much different from the play. In the play, almost all characters were faithfully sticking to the script. Unfortunately, this confirmation process has a big impact on the actual people. Judge whether medical reforms are allowed to deal with serious problems.
Kennedy returns to Capitol Hill on Thursday and holds hearing in front of the Senate's health, education, labor, and pension committee. This is considered a courtesy, because only the Senate Finance Committee votes for Kennedy's confirmation. Republican members dominate the Senate with a majority of 53-47. Kennedy can afford to lose the support of three GOP Senator, only when all the Democratic members are following the march order. During the hearing on Wednesday, the Republican members did not seem to oppose his nomination.
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