Robert F. Kennedy will make the Americans offend – not healthier

Robert F. Kennedy has achieved his goal-he is Minister of Health. Last Thursday, the Senate confirmed the hotly controversial personnel.

The former environmental activist started with the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign – he wants to make the Americans well again. How is that supposed to work? The well-known conspiracy theorist and opponent could expose vital vaccination programs, promote quacks-salt therapies and weaken national health authorities in such a way that pandemi management would fail.

But where he is right: the Americans have a massive health problem. Your life expectancy is below the comparable countries after 78.2 years.

Kennedy sees a major cause in the poor diet. He wanted to invest with the “Big Food” industry, act against highly processed foods, food dyes and additives. It was a declaration of war on fast food, frozen pizza, chips and sugar-containing breakfast flakes-the favorite food of many Americans, which are therefore very overweight on average.

There is undoubtedly a connection with the frequency of chronic diseases, which is why some scientists and doctors also welcomed this aspect of his campaign. And especially here there is also a need for improvement in regulation.

The US nutritional industry has used the lax provisions to introduce new ingredients in the past decades to launch hundreds of sometimes complex chemicals in ingredients, the potentially harmful effects of which are little known in the body. Regulation is much more strict in the EU.

It is doubtful whether Kennedy can get through the confessing fast food fan Donald Trump. He has already made it clear who will have a say in the health campaign of the new government. He!

Immediately after the swearing -in of Kennedy, this, but Trump personally used a “Make America Healthy Commission”, the chairman of which may become the new Minister of Health. There is no talk of a fight against Big Food in the vague “Fact Sheet” of the White House. The dispute also lacks vaccinations.

The program is focused on researching long -known causes and measures against chronic diseases in children. It is complained that a large part of health expenditure does not flow into prevention, but the treatment of chronic diseases – without formulating the paper for this well -known problem of almost all countries in the world. The fight against the opioid crisis is another goal.

But what is missing is a strategy to give people better access to the known health system of the United States. There is no health insurance for all citizens, many patients cannot afford the expensive treatments. The budgets of the two existing insurance companies Medicare and Medicaid, which are there for poor citizens, seniors and people with disabilities, are expected to be severely shortened – as that of all the authorities and institutions of the United States.

No, despite some good ideas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not succeed in making the Americans healthier.