Previous HHS secretaries have had a pharmaceutical industry background,
have been a state health commissioner, have run health systems, have been governors.
Somebody who has had a background in actually administering the programs that HHS administers.
Which of these qualifications does RFK possess?
You know the answer, none of them.
All right, at the top, he just gave away the ghost referencing.
You didn't work for the pharmaceutical companies.
How dare you?
So he said the quiet part, I love that.
The qualifications that Senator Schumer
is talking about there are the very qualifications.
got us to where we are today. These are the people who got us to be the sickest
country in the world. We spend, we are 4.2 percent of the world's population. We
buy 70 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs on earth. We spend two to three
times what other countries pay for health care and we have the worst health
outcomes. We literally have the sickest population in the world.
Those are the people that got us there. We do need a break. We need somebody different who can come in and say,
I'm going to be a disruptor. I'm not going to let the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry run health policy anymore.
We're going to turn health policy over to people who are actually concerned with public health.