MedCity News January 29, 2025
Responding to a question about rural hospital closures, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about an innovation that he erroneously ascribed to the Cleveland Clinic.
The first of the Senate confirmation hearings on Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s candidacy as the Secretary of Health and Human Services was predictably contentious, with Democrats (and some Republicans) grilling him for his anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, among other things on Wednesday.
Aside from that, there were several instances where his lack of knowledge about federal programs he will oversee as HHS Secretary were strikingly apparent — for example, it appeared that Kennedy didn’t know that most Medicaid patients didn’t pay any premiums given the program is for low-income patients, or that Medicaid is funded by both...
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