Politico April 2, 2025
Kelly Hooper

He also said the election of Trump was a mandate to make dramatic change in leadership.

A top adviser to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday defended the gutting of federal agencies and attacked the medical establishment, which he said is controlled by industry lobbyists in a conspiracy to keep Americans sick.

Calley Means, a fixture in the Make America Healthy Again movement and co-founder of TrueMed, said at POLITICO’s Health Care Summit that the federal health department has been an “utter failure,” pointing to rising rates of chronic disease, lower life expectancy and a culture that is too quick to medicate patients for life without addressing the underlying causes of disease.

“Fundamentally, what Bobby has done is...

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