My visit to @foxandfriends this morning got cancelled due to the tragic news of the flight crash in DC❤️🩹. Here are the 11 main points I planned to share regarding @RobertKennedyJr and why I believe his successful confirmation is existentially important for the future of America:
1. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine our healthcare priorities, right now, led by RFK Jr. This is about completely shifting the NORTH STAR and THESIS for America TOWARD foundational health, prevention, and a respect for humanity in the web of life, and AWAY from reactive sick-care and relentless invasive interventions (pills, shots, surgery) that do not lead to foundational health and thriving.
2. We’ve had 25 HHS Secretaries in U.S. history, of which 9 have been lawyers (including the last 2), and I would bet that 99.9% of Americans cannot even name a single prior Secretary. The reason there is so much scrutiny about RFK Jr. is because he challenges the financial interests of the status quo (Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Ag), NOT because he is a "threat" to public health (he's not). He's a threat to corporate interests.
3. Under these prior HHS Secretaries, healthcare spending has SKYROCKETED while chronic disease have ALSO skyrocketed—aka, a COMPLETE failure that wouldn't be tolerated in any other industry or sector. Americans are intent on disrupting this trend.
4. A reminder: America has the worst health outcomes among ANY high-income country despite spending the MOST, under the watch of 25 previous HHS Secretaries.
5. President Trump’s victory is INEXTRICABLE from RFK Jr., and people voted for a coalition that promised a healthier future for America, led by RFK Jr.'s vision. Any Republican senator doing anything to block this confirmation would be going against the will of the American people, who spoke clearly in Nov and in record numbers.
6. Cabinet nominees don’t typically bring massive constituencies and movements like this—this is a completely unique situation that should make this a slam dunk, NOT a controversy.
7. Senator @RonJohnsonWI, @RogerMarshallMD, and @MikeCrapo could clearly articulate the KEY issue in American health accounting for 90% of healthcare cost: the preventable chronic disease epidemic. Many other Senators completely ignored this focusing on minutiae or emotional hot button issues. As RFK Jr. said: “Our ship is sinking” -- and yet there is STILL handwaving about this like its not the most existential issue we face. @SenBillCassidy -- As a fellow physician, I urge you to read this and vote in favor of RFK Jr.
8. When you’re listening to a hearing about health that talks about mumps more than diabetes, we know we're living in a bizarro world that is not based in reality.
9. It’s hard to imagine being adversarial to what RFK Jr. has consistently called for both in the hearing and for the past years:
- Reduced chronic disease rates.
- Clean science uncompromised by rampant corporate interests.
- Getting conflicts of interest out of government agencies.
- Medical freedom.
Who doesn't want this?
10. Many diverse topics are bringing MAHA moms to the table—vaccine safety, food additives, medical freedom, school lunches, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and more—and they all share a common thread: moms (and families) will not stand anymore for a country that profits massively off kids getting chronically sick. Nothing can stop the frustration that is leading to this movement. It's not going back in the bottle.
11. Under the current HHS, Americans are getting sicker every year: more depression, more diabetes, more obesity, more dementia, more autism, more cancer. We need a NEW North Star for American health— and that North Star is better outcomes, better *actual health.* The top priorities of the Department shouldn't be more government jobs, more healthcare access, more prescriptions. The top priority should be one thing: MORE HEALTH FOR AMERICANS. Current HHS priorities include things like "tackling health misinformation," "workplace well-being," tobacco-related health disparities, and expanding the healthcare workforce. Missing from these priorities? SIMPLY GETTING AMERICANS HEALTHIER.
As a physician who left the traditional healthcare system out of moral outrage for the simple fact that patients are not getting better, I am strongly supportive of the disruption being brought by RFK Jr towards a root cause approach to health. No one else in this moment in a position to do something about it is talking about this the way he is. Alongside @MartyMakary, @DrOz, and @DrJBhattacharya heading HHS sub-agencies, I believe we have the opportunity for a real inflection point in American health (which, if successful, could transform the health of the world). It would be insanity to keep pushing forward on the incrementalism of the status quo.
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