The Trump administration is kicking off the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. era with a massive new health commission, according to a Thursday evening White House press release.
Just hours after the Senate confirmed Kennedy Jr. as the next HHS Secretary, the White House announced the Make America Healthy Again Commission.
The Commission is a sprawling new initiative which will, among other things, address America’s chronic disease epidemic and ending childhood chronic illness.
“American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population,” the press release read. The release also noted that six out of 10 Americans have at…
