Mayra Conte Souza

@mayraconte.bsky.social

Audience Engagement Associate at dailykos.com

Robert "Brainworms" Kennedy Jr.—the anti-vax, raw-milk-chugging, whale-head-chainsawing conspiracy theorist—is now in charge of America’s health policy. That's like putting a flat-earther in charge of NASA.

Oh great, anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. officially in charge of health care now

The Senate voted almost entirely along party lines on Thursday to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.� ...

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WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

The problem is it took a murder for healthcare policy to even enter the conversation. The media doesn’t pay attention unless something extreme happens (to someone wealthy, bc the thousands that get denied care are never reported on), and even then most are side stepping the main issue.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

all i'm saying is it would've been nice to have this healthcare policy discussion *before* we gave a trifecta to the party that tried to strip coverage from tens of millions of people last time they were in power