Trump to nominate RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary

[HARK!]

President-elect Donald Trump wants Robert F Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump to nominate RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

www.washingtontimes.com

 

[Yttrium]

Bring it on. Kennedy is a great fit for a Trump administration. And he's 100% pro-vaccine! As long as he thinks the vaccine is safe. (He doesn't think any of them are safe.)

 

[Vambram]

President-elect Donald Trump wants Robert F Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump to nominate RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

www.washingtontimes.com

MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!!!

I agree with RFK Jr and many, many other Americans who know that the Big Pharmaceutical companies and the Big agricultural food processing companies have an unhealthy amount of massive influence upon the federal government and the lives & health of Americans.
MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!!!

 

[mourningdove~]

President-elect Donald Trump wants Robert F Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

"Make America Healthy Again!"

 

[Gene2memE]

Rather like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire brigade.

 

[comana]

MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!!!

I agree with RFK Jr and many, many other Americans who know that the Big Pharmaceutical companies and the Big agricultural food processing companies have an unhealthy amount of massive influence upon the federal government and the lives & health of Americans.
MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!!!

How do you suppose he will overcome that hurdle? The GOP always touts fewer regulations not the many many more it would take to change the American diet.

 

[Vambram]

How do you suppose he will overcome that hurdle? The GOP always touts fewer regulations not the many many more it would take to change the American diet.

The pharmaceutical corporations and the industrial food corporations have corrupted the FDA. Big money talks and corrupts the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the corporations making and marketing the foods we eat and the pharmaceutical drugs Americans use. Also, did y'all know that food corporations put stuff & chemicals in our food but over in Europe that stuff & chemicals are banned from being in food?

 

[HARK!]

Rather like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire brigade.

I think it will be more like sending a Sheriff to straighten out a band of drug dealers; but he might need a flame thrower.

 

[HARK!]

The GOP always touts fewer regulations not the many many more it would take to change the American diet.

Wrong.

 

[comana]

The pharmaceutical corporations and the industrial food corporations have corrupted the FDA. Big money talks and corrupts the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the corporations making and marketing the foods we eat and the pharmaceutical drugs Americans use. Also, did y'all know that food corporations put stuff & chemicals in our food but over in Europe that stuff & chemicals are banned from being in food?

Big money is in the pockets of Ds and Rs, sow how is he going to overcome the influence deeply ingrained into government?

 

[comana]

Wrong.

I can play the non answer game too.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

Oh, look. Another lie:

Trump campaign denies RFK Jr. will be in charge of HHS or USDA - Washington Examiner

Howard Lutnick, Trump transition co-chairman, made the announcement despite both former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making statements about the job appointments this week.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Brain worms for everyone!!

 

[Vambram]

I think it will be more like sending a Sheriff to straighten out a band of drug dealers; but he might need a flame thrower.

Ditto

 

[Vambram]

Oh, look. Another lie:

Trump campaign denies RFK Jr. will be in charge of HHS or USDA - Washington Examiner

Howard Lutnick, Trump transition co-chairman, made the announcement despite both former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making statements about the job appointments this week.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Brain worms for everyone!!

Lutnick was probably kept out of the loop and probably did know what Donald Trump was going to do with RFK Jr.

 

[HARK!]

The pharmaceutical corporations and the industrial food corporations have corrupted the FDA. Big money talks and corrupts the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the corporations making and marketing the foods we eat and the pharmaceutical drugs Americans use. Also, did y'all know that food corporations put stuff & chemicals in our food but over in Europe that stuff & chemicals are banned from being in food?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says its rules, along with federal laws, stop employees from improperly cashing in on their government service. But how adequate are those revolving door controls? Science has found that much like outside advisers, regular employees at the agency, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, often reap later rewards—jobs or consulting work—from the makers of the drugs they previously regulated.


FDA staffers play a pivotal role in drug approvals, presenting evidence to the agency's advisory panels and influencing or making approval decisions. They are free to move to jobs in pharma, and many do; in a 2016 study in The BMJ, researchers examined the job histories of 55 FDA staff who had conducted drug reviews over a 9-year period in the hematologyoncology field. They found that 15 of the 26 employees who left the agency later worked or consulted for the biopharmaceutical industry.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-s-revolving-door-companies-often-hire-agency-staffers-who-managed-their-successful

Internal emails show that the US Food and Drug Administration informs employees leaving for industry jobs that, despite restrictions on post-employment lobbying, they are still permitted to influence the agency. Peter Doshi reports

Revolving door: You are free to influence us “behind the scenes,” FDA tells staff leaving for industry jobs

Internal emails show that the US Food and Drug Administration informs employees leaving for industry jobs that, despite restrictions on post-employment lobbying, they are still permitted to influence the agency. Peter Doshi reports During his final three years at the US Food and Drug...

www.bmj.com

 

[HARK!]

I can play the non answer game too.

See: Burden of Proof

I try to avoid making absolute statements. As soon as you said "always;" I knew you were wrong.

Your move.

I'll be waiting for your proof.

 

[Vambram]

Big money is in the pockets of Ds and Rs, sow how is he going to overcome the influence deeply ingrained into government?

I cannot read the minds of RFK Jr or anyone else. I shall wait to see the details of the plans to do so.

 

[mark46]

PREDICTION
In 4 years, the incidences of polio, mumps, measles and probably malaria will increase by 50% in the US. Hundreds of school districts will no longer require that children be vaccinated to attend. Parents will be more free!
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OBVIOUSLY
Hundreds (if not thousands) of career health professionals will be fired. By any measure accepted by the WHO, the health of US citizens will decline.
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BUT LET'S BE CLEAR
Elections have consequences. Trump has every right to appoint Kennedy to head HHS and to appoint those who will lead the deportation effort.
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AS AN ASIDE
This appointment is nowhere near as dangerous as having someone with no intelligence experience being the one to assess intelligence data and make recommendations to the President. This assessment has ZERO to do with politics. There are literally thousands of intelligence professionals who could perform the job in a somewhat adequate manner.

 

[Fantine]

Internal emails show that the US Food and Drug Administration informs employees leaving for industry jobs that, despite restrictions on post-employment lobbying, they are still permitted to influence the agency. Peter Doshi reports

The federal government employs 2.95 million workers. Between those that leave in disgust and those who lose their jobs in an effort to create chaos, the Trump recession may begin on 1/21.

What happens when all of a sudden a million people are unemployed? They don't shop. They don't spend. The service industries in their towns have less customers. They may lay off some of their workers. Then there are even fewer people working. It can snowball pretty quickly.

My cousin's son works for a different federal department in DC, and they were all told they would be without jobs in January. Not sure how widespread this was.

 

[mark46]

I cannot read the minds of RFK Jr or anyone else. I shall wait to see the details of the plans to do so.

Plans mean exactly zero.

We will see what he does.