Robert Kennedy Jr. may become head of the US Department of Health
US President-elect Donald Trump will nominate anti-vaxxer activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
If Kennedy is confirmed by the Senate, it will herald the biggest overhaul of the US health care system in history. The Department of Health and its agencies oversee drug approval, food safety and disease surveillance, as well as the Medicare and Medicaid systems, Politico writes.
Coming from one of America's most famous Democratic families, Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again movement [Make America Healthy Again — МАНА] blame part of America's poor health on a corrupt alliance between the food and drug industries and the regulators charged with overseeing them. They want to replace bureaucrats and…
