Bernie Sanders Nails RFK Jr. On Healthcare

Trump wants RFK Jr. to head HHS, but the questioning by Sen. Bernie Sanders revealed that RFK Jr. doesn't believe that healthcare is a human right.

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RFK Jr. Is A Danger To Your Health(care)

RFK Jr. had a rough confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. He kept confusing Medicare and Medicaid, but he never corrected himself. The hearing could generously be described as difficult, but a moment that stood out was when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questioned Kennedy on whether he views healthcare as a human right.

Sen. Sanders asked:

Despite spending, as you indicated, two or three times as much per capita on health care is other nations. We have 85 million people who are uninsured, underinsured.

We have all kinds of chronic Illnesses our life expectancy is lower than other countries and for working class people in this country They are living six seven years shorter lives than the top one percent. We have a problem. Okay, and I'm going to suggest some ideas that I think can remedy…