RFK Jr. speech: vows to eradicate chronic disease

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RFK Jr. speech: vows to eradicate chronic disease
YouTube video by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Q_c1UU66U). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

question to you is if it really is fundamental to what you believe how do you live with that how do you how do you address those issues as you're moving forward you want me to answer the question yeah you want me to answer the question no I'm asking you okay president Trump has asked me to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America healthy again and I that the only reason why you're at HHS is that the only reason why then you're at the HHS to address that one issue president Trump has asked me because I'm in a unique position to end that and and that is what I'm doing and if we don't solve that problem Senator all of the other disputes we have about who's paying and whether it's insurance companies whether it's providers whether it's hmos whether it's patients or families all of those are moving deck chairs around in the Titanic our ship is sinking 60% increase in Medicaid over the past four years is the biggest budget line now and it's growing faster than any other and no other nation in the world has what we have here no other nation has a chronic disease we have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world we had during covid we had 16% of the covid deaths in a country we only have 4.2% of the world's population we had a higher death count than any country in the world and when CDC was asked why they said it's because Americans are the sickest people on Earth the average person who died from covid American had 3.8 chronic diseases this is an existential threat economically to our military to our health to our sense of well-being and it is a priority for president Trump and that's why he asked me to run the agency and if I'm privileged to be confirmed as EX exactly what I'll do [Applause]