RFK Jr., Dr. Makary, Dr. Bhattacharya, and Dr. Oz just laid out their vision for the future of HHS.
Here’s what they said—and why it matters.
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Here’s what they said—and why it matters.
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RFK Jr. opened the interview with Bret Baier by highlighting how uniquely close his relationship is with the heads of his agencies.
“We're friends. We go to lunch together. We stay at each other's homes. We vacation together. We're also aligned in our vision.”
“Friendship is based upon shared values, and that's the strongest bond that holds people together.”
“We all share a vision that's been a lifelong vision for all of us, which is to make our country healthy, to have evidence based science, and to have gold standard replicable science.”
“We're friends. We go to lunch together. We stay at each other's homes. We vacation together. We're also aligned in our vision.”
“Friendship is based upon shared values, and that's the strongest bond that holds people together.”
“We all share a vision that's been a lifelong vision for all of us, which is to make our country healthy, to have evidence based science, and to have gold standard replicable science.”
The men then went around the room, each outlining their agency’s goals.
Dr. Makary was first up.
“We wanna focus the FDA on cures and meaningful treatments.”
“Why does it take ten years on average for drugs to come to market”
“Why are we blaming children for being sick and not looking at our food supply?”
“Why are we thinking it's a willpower problem as we watch half of our nation's children with belly pain or attention deficit disorder on medications?”
Dr. Makary was first up.
“We wanna focus the FDA on cures and meaningful treatments.”
“Why does it take ten years on average for drugs to come to market”
“Why are we blaming children for being sick and not looking at our food supply?”
“Why are we thinking it's a willpower problem as we watch half of our nation's children with belly pain or attention deficit disorder on medications?”
Dr. Oz was up next to discuss his main priority at CMS.
“Our goal is to put health back in health and human services.”
“There's a quote from Hubert Humphrey… he says, ‘it’s the moral obligation of government to take care of those of us at the very dawn of our lives, children, at the twilight of our life, the elderly, and those living in the shadows.’”
“That's our focus, quality of care at all levels.”
“It's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can, and it's our job to help you get there and make it easy to do the right things.”
“Our goal is to put health back in health and human services.”
“There's a quote from Hubert Humphrey… he says, ‘it’s the moral obligation of government to take care of those of us at the very dawn of our lives, children, at the twilight of our life, the elderly, and those living in the shadows.’”
“That's our focus, quality of care at all levels.”
“It's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can, and it's our job to help you get there and make it easy to do the right things.”
Dr. Bhattacharya then gave a quick overview of his top priorities at NIH and the recent ban on gain-of-function funding.
“The mission of the NIH is to do research that improves the health and longevity of the American people.”
“The NIH has not done its mission over the last dozen years.”
“We're not going to allow scientists to play god.”
“What the President did by signing this order is he said, ‘No more! We're not going to have another lab generated pandemic on my watch.’”
“The mission of the NIH is to do research that improves the health and longevity of the American people.”
“The NIH has not done its mission over the last dozen years.”
“We're not going to allow scientists to play god.”
“What the President did by signing this order is he said, ‘No more! We're not going to have another lab generated pandemic on my watch.’”
RFK Jr. closed the interview by expressing his support for President Trump’s recent Surgeon General nomination.
“Casey Means we felt was the best person to really bring the vision of MAHA to the American public.”
“She wrote a book that really mobilized the movement.”
“She was the very top of her medical class at Stanford.”
“She is excellence in everything that she's ever endeavored.”
“She walked away from traditional medicine because she was not curing patients.”
“She couldn't get anybody within her profession to look at the nutrition contributions to illness.”
“She said, ‘If we're really gonna heal people, we can't just be making our life about billing new procedures, we actually have to figure out new approaches to medicine.’”
“And that's the kind of leadership that she's gonna bring to our country.”
“Casey Means we felt was the best person to really bring the vision of MAHA to the American public.”
“She wrote a book that really mobilized the movement.”
“She was the very top of her medical class at Stanford.”
“She is excellence in everything that she's ever endeavored.”
“She walked away from traditional medicine because she was not curing patients.”
“She couldn't get anybody within her profession to look at the nutrition contributions to illness.”
“She said, ‘If we're really gonna heal people, we can't just be making our life about billing new procedures, we actually have to figure out new approaches to medicine.’”
“And that's the kind of leadership that she's gonna bring to our country.”
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