Robert F Kennedy Jr. is praised because he has evoked medical and pharmaceutical companies that benefit from the chronic diseases of people, such as obesity and diabetes.
In a excavated interview with Dr. Phil, 71-year-old RFK Jr. Pharmaceutical giants because they 'earn money by keeping us sick' at enormous costs for the American taxpayer – instead of encouraging people to make healthy lifestyle choices.
He linked his complaint to proposed legislation to make weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy available for around a million obese Americans.
Under the policy from the BIDen era, seniors who participated in Medicare and people with low incomes who participated in Medicaid get free access to drugs for weight management.
RFK Jr. said he would do that rather people provide biological food three times a day Then the bleeding of billions of dollars that give every obese American the expensive injections.
The Republican, who has nominated Donald Trump as his secretary for the US Department of Health, said instead that “diabetes can be treated with food and with exercise.”
The Dr. Phil interview of RFK JR was recorded last summer before he was nominated by Trump. The TV presenter shared the clip again this week, which led to a stream of support for RFK Jr. And his 'no-nonsense' approach of health and well-being.
Many viewers also expressed their excitement for the next four years if Trump succeeds in Kennedy Jr. to place at the helm of the Ministry of Health.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. has rejected proposals to make weight loss drugs such as Ozempic free for all obese Americans with a low income, at a substantial price tag for the taxpayer
RFK Jr. discussed the proposed legislation in an interview with talk show presenter Dr. Phil
“There are a number of industries that actually make money by keeping us sick,” said RFK Jr. In the re -upright excerpt.
'You would think they want us healthy, but actually they deserve more when we get sicker.
“And of course, at the pharmaceutical companies: if you have a chronic disease, you are a lifelong patient.”
In his response to the proposed legislation on pricks for weight loss, he added: 'This drug Ozempic costs $ 1,500 for a week.
'There is now a bill at the congress that the insurance companies, Medicare, would force to pay for every American who is obese.
'That is 74 percent of our population, that will be 3 trillion dollars a year.
“For a small part of it you could give every American three meals a day organic food and the diabetes would disappear from one day to the next.”
Official figures and projections are contrary to those of RFK Jr.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 42 percent of all Americans are overweight or obesity.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this means that extensive coverage for Medicare is expected to cost the government around $ 35 billion in the next ten years.
The congress will take a closer look at the proposed obstacle law in the coming months, and it would only enter into force in 2026 if it is adopted by the Trump government.
Several people expressed their powerful support online for the approach of RFK Jr. of the obesity crisis.
'I can confirm that he is 100% right based on personal experience. Real food. Excercise. Diabetes disappears, “someone wrote.
Another said: 'Crazy anyway. Start with food and when people eat better, they might just get off the couch and start exercising. “
While a third added: 'He is right. Processed foods and sedentary lifestyles feed the diabetes epidemic. In the meantime, Big Pharma lobes policies that promotes real health solutions because it threatens their profits. '
And another wrote: 'The plan of RFK Jr. To tackle diabetes with organic food, the profit -oriented pharmaceutical approach challenges. “
But some withdrew and argued that the approach of RFK Jr. The help of large pharmaceutical companies also needs: 'Although changes in lifestyle are important, making diabetes treatment too simple is dangerous.
'Both prevention and good medical care must be part of the solution; It is not or/or situation. ”
Another believes that his research is not nuanced enough: 'In your comments, please distinguish between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
'People with type 1 diabetes have a pancreas that has stopped insulin production.
'No amount of weight loss, dietary and dietary habits, lifestyle changes can reduce the power of the pancreas to produce insulin. Insulin is, as it were, the key that unlocks the cells in our body, so that the nutrients we eat can end up in any cell. ”
RFK Jr. Has been a critic of slimming drugs for a long time. He previously labeled the American 'addiction' on Ozempic as 'Dom'.
The Republican will appear before the Senate's financial committee on Wednesday for the first of two confirmation hearings to become the next Health Saw of the country.
If confirmed, RFK Jr. Getting control over 18 health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The confirmation hearings are expected to be fiery, because RFK Jr. will be questioned about his controversial views, including the distribution of untruths that vaccines are related to autism.
In his last Dr. Phil-Interview compared RFK Jr. Subsequently, the current healthcare costs in America with that of the presidency of his uncle John F Kennedy in the early 1960s, while vaguely referred to the consequences for the health of pesticides and chemicals.
The Biden government estimated that 3.4 million Americans with Medicare would be eligible for the medicines (file image of Biden on the South Lawn of the White House on November 25)
Ozempic and Wegovy helped people so quickly to get rid of pounds that some people call them wonderfulness (file image)
“We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world and it destroys us,” said the Boss of the US Department of Health of Donald Trump.
'It is 4.3 trillion dollars a year. It costs our country five times the military budget.
“When my uncle was president, the medical editions for chronic diseases were zero. Nowadays this is 95 percent of our health care expenditure.
'It lets our country sink, and we are getting sicker and sick. We pay twice as much as what Europeans do about health care with the worst health care results in the world.
“It's all because we are en masse enlarged by processed foods, by pesticides, by chemicals, by pharmaceutical medicines.”
According to the CDC, ninety percent of annual health care expenditure of 4.5 trillion dollars is intended for people with chronic and mental health problems.
