A former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday advised that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated for “the fallacious Cupboard submit” after how President Donald Trump’s decide for her previous job carried out in his affirmation listening to.
“He doesn’t perceive this Cupboard submit very effectively and the positions that he has are terrifying,” stated Kathleen Sebelius in an interview with MSNBC host Joy Reid.
Sebelius, who served underneath Barack Obama and oversaw the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, has beforehand referred to as Kennedy’s historical past of peddling false claims about vaccines “completely disqualifying for anybody” looking for the submit and warned that his doable HHS management is a matter of “life or death.”
On Wednesday, she instructed Reid that Kennedy demonstrated that “he has very sturdy opinions about loads issues he is aware of little or no about” within the listening to.
“That doesn’t cease him from asserting him opinions as truth. It doesn’t cease him from making suggestions which can be broadly disputed by scientific proof,” Sebelius stated.
She continued, “And that makes him very, very harmful within the place as the foremost well being minister of the US.”
Kennedy made false statements to senators on Wednesday together with these associated to Medicaid in addition to Medicare and was pressed over anti-vaccine clothes bought by a corporation he began.
Sebelius declared that Kennedy has made “his fame and his fortune on being a vaccine denier” by repeatedly saying there’s no “protected and efficient vaccine.”
She added that whereas Kennedy has withdrawn his title from his previous group, Youngsters’s Well being Protection, it’s suing vaccine makers, and he’s making referral fees from these lawsuits.
She went on to warn of a rising variety of adults who’re questioning and withholding vaccines from their kids, which might topic folks to illnesses which have “lengthy” been abolished in America.
“So this isn’t nearly particular person dad and mom making particular person selections, it’s about us as society potential new circumstances of polio, potential new circumstances of whooping cough, illness, measles outbreaks that we haven’t seen in a really very long time,” Sebelius stated.
She continued, “Largely as a result of, I feel, misinformation, disinformation promoted by his group since 2016.”
Later within the interview, Sebelius slammed Kennedy for not answering “fundamental” questions on Medicare and Medicaid, knocked his understanding of the ACA and questioned his concentrate on meals/meals dietary supplements whereas pushing for the HHS submit.
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