RFKJr and America's health

[Kraken]

Confirmation looks like a cinch so he's going to be in charge until trump wearies of him. I choose to lead with some rare good news: He wants major changes to Medicare payments.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisers are considering an overhaul of Medicare’s decades-old payment formula, a bid to shift the health system’s incentives toward primary care and prevention, said four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

The discussions are in their early stages, the people said, and have involved a plan to review the thousands of billing codes that determine how much physicians get paid for performing procedures and services.

The coding system tends to reward health-care providers for surgeries and other costly procedures. It has been accused of steering physicians to become specialists because they will be paid more, while financial incentives are different in other countries, where more physicians go into primary care — and health outcomes are better.

[Smoove_B]

I guess this goes here? I don't even know anymore. Anyway, apparently the answer to funding a movie about how the government created the COVID-19 pandemic is to get yourself to head the HSS:

“We have a film division at Children’s Health Defense,” Kennedy said in a clip from a virtual interview shared by the anti-extremism social media account PatriotTakes on Wednesday. A major source of vaccine misinformation, CHD is an activist nonprofit that was chaired by Kennedy until he took leave in 2023 to run for president. “We produced two films. One of them is Vaxxed II, which was, you know, a huge success,” Kennedy continued. “And then Plandemic, which we financed, which is now — by some metrics — the most successful documentary in history.”

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Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind COVID-19 is a 26-minute propaganda film that gained wide attention in mid-2020, significantly contributing to the movement against health safety measures, including vaccination. Produced by Mikki Willis, a California filmmaker known for new age and conspiracist content, it features an uncritical interview with discredited former medical researcher and anti-vaxxer Judy Mikovits, and presents many false claims about Covid-19, including that wearing a face mask “activates your own virus” and that the flu vaccine contains coronaviruses. Plandemic also contends, without evidence, that the Covid-19 virus was artificially “manipulated,” and that vaccination programs are harmful for-profit schemes orchestrated by wealthy elites.

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He went on to express the notion at the core of the Plandemic series, saying, “If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them.” In the same press conference, Kennedy likened government guidelines on combating Covid to Nazis testing “vaccines on Gypsies and Jews,” warning that these would “enslave the entire human race and plunge us into a dystopian nightmare.”

Maybe it's all part of his plan

In the meantime, if Kennedy still has questions about whether the U.S. government deliberately unleashed Covid on its own citizens, he can always ask the man who was president at the time: Donald Trump.

[Punisher]

Well Trump is a wealthy elite so that tracks.