RFK Jr. at the Health Crisis Roundtable in DC: “When discussing improvements to U.S. healthcare policy, politicians from both parties often say we have the best healthcare system in the world. That is a lie.”
“If the American experiment fails, it will not be because we had the wrong marginal tax rate. It won't be because we don't have the perfectly optimized level of social safety net spending. It won't be because of the culture war and DEI issues at the media trumpets to orchestrate the division among all of us.
No, if America fails, the chief reason will be because we let our country get sicker, more depressed, fatter, more infertile, at an increasing rate while crippling our national security, bankrupting our national budget with healthcare costs.”
“Every major pillar of the U.S. healthcare system, as a statement of economic fact, makes money when Americans get sick. The most valuable asset in this country today is a sick child.”
“In America, 74% of Americans are now overweight or obese, including 50% of our children.”
“We are mass poisoning all of our children and all of our adults.”
“The good news is that we can change all this, and we can change it very quickly. It starts with taking a sledgehammer to corruption.”
“The FDA, the USDA, and the CDC are all controlled by giant for-profit corporations.”
“For half the price of Ozempic, we could purchase regeneratively raised organic food for every American, three meals a day, and gym membership for every obese American.”
“For 19 years, I have prayed to God every morning to put me in a position to end this calamity. I believe we have the opportunity for transformational bipartisan change to transform American health.”
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