RFK Jr. Clashes With Lawmakers Over Measles, COVID and Chronic Disease

by Jill Erzen

Vaccines and measles outbreaks dominated a long day on Capitol Hill as U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced back-to-back hearings on Wednesday.

The afternoon session before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee followed a tense morning appearance before the Senate Finance Committee.

Across both hearings — Kennedy’s sixth and seventh in just over a week — lawmakers covered everything from drug prices to rural healthcare to environmental risks.

But the sharpest exchanges kept circling back to measles.

“People have been talking about measles all day long,” Kennedy said. While outbreaks matter, he said, “We also can’t just talk about that in exclusion to the thing that is killing our country.”

Kennedy pointed to chronic disease, which accounts for 90% of the nation’s $4.9 trillion in annual healthcare costs. “We need to do something to protect our children,” he said…

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