Politico January 29, 2025
PRO-TWINKIE — He flip-flopped on vaccines. His answers on the health care system, particularly Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, were sloppy.
He got the programs mixed up. He got the numbers mixed up. He got the financing mixed up.
To put it mildly, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing today to become Health and Human Services secretary didn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Many of us who write about or work in health care occasionally say Medicare when we mean Medicaid — but we catch ourselves and fix it. We don’t get it wrong again and again through a three-plus hour hearing when we’re shooting for the top health job in the country.
Between them, Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA...
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