Republican United States presidential candidate Donald Trump not too long ago urged Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would possibly oversee a well being portfolio in a possible future administration.
Talking at a current rally in Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, Trump promised he would let RFK Jr “go wild on well being, go wild on meals and go wild on medicines” however did not elaborate on his particular function.
RFK Jr has been vocal about medical freedom and has expressed scepticism about what he describes as “unsafe vaccines”. He has already made guarantees to the American folks, together with the elimination of fluoride from water provides, a transfer that Trump has endorsed.
At a Nevada rally on Thursday night time, Trump urged RFK Jr’s portfolio would lengthen to “ladies’s well being”, intensifying backlash from Democrats already outraged by Republican-driven rollbacks of abortion rights.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is well-known for his criticism and scepticism of the COVID-19 vaccine and different immunisations. Supply: AAP / Jose Luis Magana/AP
Who’s Robert F Kennedy Jr?
RFK Jr, whose father was US senator Robert F Kennedy and whose uncle was US president John F Kennedy, dropped out of the presidential race in late August after which publicly endorsed Trump — drawing criticism from his circle of relatives.
Since then, he has been brazenly campaigning for a key place in a possible Trump-led authorities, with hopes to “make America wholesome once more”.
A former environmental lawyer, RFK Jr is without doubt one of the nation’s high vaccine critics and has brazenly criticised the US Meals and Drug Administration’s drug assessment course of.
Revisiting the Inexpensive Care Act
Throughout his first time period, Trump made repeated makes an attempt to dismantle the Inexpensive Care Act (ACA), often known as Obamacare — a complete healthcare reform regulation enacted in 2010 below then-president Barack Obama.
Its major objectives are to make healthcare extra inexpensive and increase medical health insurance protection.
Regardless of failing to totally repeal the ACA beforehand, a Trump win might reignite efforts to overturn or reshape it.
Trump stated the ACA created “burdens”, including he wished to “pave the way in which for actual reform, like well being financial savings accounts that empower people to decide on the personalized plan that’s really proper for them” in 2017.
Vice President Kamala Harris has warned the American public that if Trump wins the presidential election, he’ll roll again healthcare protections.
“A part of Donald Trump’s agenda for a really very long time … he has made dozens of makes an attempt to do away with the Inexpensive Care Act.
“What that might imply to the American folks is that insurance coverage firms might return in time the place they may deny you protection for medical health insurance primarily based on pre-existing situations.
“What I do know is that the American folks — no matter who they’re voting for, know the significance of the Inexpensive Care Act … by way of increasing folks’s protection to healthcare, primarily based on a basic precept that I maintain deeply — entry to healthcare needs to be a proper and never only a privilege to those that can afford it.”
