In many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer on how he plans to remake the American health care system. Scherer joined Washington Week with The Atlantic to discuss its history and what the Secretary of Health and Human Services may be seeking.
“What we do know about RFK is the caricature he's fallen into is a daily battle between people who think he's destroying science and people who think he's challenging the establishment,” Scherer said last night. Less well known, however, is how “he rose from the fringes of the Democratic Party” to become HHS secretary in the Trump administration.
“I think the answer is that he is a very determined person who is on a quest,” Scherer continued. “He was able to overcome enormous obstacles and a huge number of detractors to truly not lose faith in his vision of what he was doing.”
I join the editor-in-chief AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg to discuss this and more: Scherer, Magazine Staff Writer Atlantic; Dan Diamond, White House reporter Washington Post; and Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent and podcast host What kind of health V KFF health news.
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