WASHINGTON— Today, The Heritage Foundation congratulated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services in President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming administration.  

Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts said: 

“The nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. to lead the nation’s largest public health agency is an enormous victory for the bipartisan, grassroots movement to make America healthy again. In his independent campaign for president, Kennedy surfaced vital concerns shared by millions of Americans that the Washington establishment has refused to address: chronic diseases, the corrupting influences of Big Pharma and Big Food, and the decadence of a public health bureaucracy that treats symptoms instead of causes. 

 

“For decades, Americans' life expectancy has stagnated and our health has declined, all while our costs skyrocket and our bureaucracy expands. This nomination sends a clear message to our failed public health establishment: Americans are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Under President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, those Americans will be in control of their health, not the commissars of three-letter health agencies.” 

Roger Severino, Heritage Foundation Vice President for Domestic Policy, said: 

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a truth-teller dedicated to saving our children from a broken health system that is structured to profit off illness instead of prevention and cures. The time for fundamental health reform is now, and RFK Jr. is the man to do it. HHS is the linchpin of the status quo, spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year while failing to make Americans healthier. 

 

“I look forward to seeing Secretary Kennedy end the corruption of the medical and pharmaceutical establishment, promote a new positive vision of American health, and refocus the agency on its core mission of serving the American people based on science and common sense, not politics or monied interests.”