Health care under a 2nd Trump administration

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses plans related to health issues mentioned by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., someone expected to take a new role in the Trump administration.
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[@GloriaFontenot-dm8iy]

Seriously y'all are expecting parents to start reading the back of boxes and call out to health physicians to find out what the labels mean?? Make it healthy regardless

[@Marcus_-sy9fi]

Stay away from processed foods as much as possible is what being told to all Americans, Democrats or Republicans, so why is anyone in the right mind would be against What RFK Jr is advocating for. This doctor is likely very conscientious about what he and his family eat, but he is playing the role of lobbyist for the food and drug industry

[@Ha1a_r]

So RFK is right? Stop smearing him. let him fix the health of America.

[@OLThomas-y9j]

Right on . Hope MD's can get sharper doing and LESS testing , maybe look at how patients WALK !

[@silsahchne7236]

Yeah, we are extra sized compared to others

[@markrobinowitz8473]

He's right that food dyes are questionable but batty about preventative medicine, especially vaccines, and knows nothing about pharmacology, biology, chemistry, public health, immunology, virology.

[@AM-el4iv]

RFK is a goofball, and Trump is demented fool. Just take your Ivermectin and be a good boy to Fuhrer Trump.

[@christophergomez2584]

He's a waste of air. Fucker can't even talk right.

[@HubbaBub7039]

Sorry guy, RFK is right. And as a parent I want food with no chemicals for my family

[@JadusMoltriel]

Tell me you never passed chemistry, without saying you never passed chemistry.... EVERYTHING in existence is comprised of elements and their chemical reactions. You might as well say you never want food ever again. There are of course ingredients, both natural and artificial, that are not good for us, but it has nothing to do with whether or not they have chemicals in them, LOL. Your own body is made of chemicals and their reactions. And no, RFK wasn't correct. He claimed other country's Fruit Loops have way less ingredients than ours, saying they only have 2 or 3 ingredients. That's objectively false. I agree American companies focus too much on cheaper ways to make products and foods, but there are regulations that keep them in check and prevent anything seriously dangerous from being consumed by us. RFK wants to end all those regulations.....

[@mcshow8121]

Yes, but what does that have to do with being anti vaccine?

[@lacurtisfloyd7724]

Sir! Ma’am! Everyone knows the food and the water is making everyone sick and over weight.

[@janmiller4673]

@@lacurtisfloyd7724 Not everyone, some are either brainwashed, braindead or just plain evil and part of the problem. Always pray over your meals people, God is good, but there's a lot of evil people these days that have done much harm.

[@monkeybusiness2204]

Trump go hard to push his policies through this time. No more Dem stopping progress.

[@cameronspence4977]

So no excuses when he doesn't deliver on his promises this time right? Like he promised to wall off the border and its the most illegal immigration in US history right?

[@royburnacoven3559]

This is like a big pharma ad

[@rustinstardust2094]

Yep. And just in case my other comment gets deleted: studies can confirm or debunk a theory based on how much they tweak the results. Especially when the study has a lot of funding by a company which stands to lose billions over undesirable results.

[@annahornstra4078]

For sure!

[@pachecodecastro2593]

The lesser ingredients in a processed product the better. That’s a rule of thumb. Tomato sauce should have tomato, orange juice should read oranges, nothing else. There are brands like that, but we have to educate ourselves and READ!

[@lukewalker4813]

Blood-brain barrier. Mercury. Check it out.

[@rustinstardust2094]

Studies can confirm or debunk a theory based on how much they tweak the results. Especially when the study has a lot of funding by a company that stands to lose billions over undesirable results.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

it is like the Vet's pushing annual vaccines on dogs. It is NOT for the health of the pet it is a billing tactic for sustainable biz. Follow who underwrites many of the tuitions in vet school. DUH...

[@shawngibson7514]

Check into who the first person to add fluoride to water was, and you may rethink how good “fluoride” is in water.

[@janmiller4673]

@@shawngibson7514 Hitler used it in the concentration camps...found out it made people more docile, slower mentally. Spot on Shawn!

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

Bro….. this alone was the biggest draw for me to trump/rfk. If he got this done & endee the wars he’d be the best president ever.

[@jasonallman696]

So you voted for an insurectionist and did not even consider how disasterous his economic policies would be. At least I know who to blame.

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

@@jasonallman696 bro you are so overly emotional right now that you didnt even see that i said “biggest” draw… not the “only” draw…. Its time to grow up sir/ma’am

[@johnnybeefum]

Yeah, getting Measles, Polio, and other old ass diseases back from the dead sounds great!

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

@@johnnybeefum i really feel bad for people like u honestly. Its like your entire existence is “peace-repellent.” I have a great therapist i could reccomend you to

[@johnnybeefum]

@@JayPatterson-h5b Because I don't agree with your post, I'm "peace-repellent?" I don't agree with your post because you endorse at least one man who can potentially cause thousands to die at the hands of old illnesses that were put to rest decades ago. You clearly have zero knowledge or desire to learn about science. You could be honest and just say, "Nope. Don't give a f*(k about science" and any dialogue ends there and at least you'd be honest.

[@VividCollectiveWorks]

These should be banned entirely unless they are Bobby Approved!!

[@Livelifebegrateful]

FlavCity guy

[@cameronspence4977]

Actually reet @rted.

[@katerinejonhson4416]

So RFK is right from what I’m hearing

[@shirleymclean3607]

Make America Great Again and Make America Healthy Again!!

[@SnarkyRC]

That won’t happen. The USA is completely backwards when it comes to medical care in comparison to other developed countries.

[@ReznaQay]

when i was a kid my parents only let me have one name brand cereal box a year on my birthday. 1 because its not healthy. 2 its really expensive. irresponsible parents but this for their kids all the time

[@patoteto2]

European food have less ingredients too. Particularly bread. Mari can bread has many chemicals and even bleach to make the bread a certain color or to make it more fluffy

[@sabrinaleedance]

👏👏👏 seriously so glad Trump won. This needs to happen. Our food has been poisoned for way too long

[@markrobinowitz8473]

A guy who eats lots of McDonalds is going to improve the food supply? It's funny, but also tragic. He's vowed to gut food safety rules and labeling requirements.

[@pachecodecastro2593]

Lady, you are in for a big, horrible and painful surprise. No more sanitary protocols, no more vaccines, this country is headed to the dark ages, when pests killed millions both of disease and hunger.

[@jeffhaddix9508]

In a landmark case on September 24, 2024, Food & Water Watch v. EPA (No. 3:17-cv-02162-EMC), a federal court ruled that the level of fluoride in US drinking water is an unreasonable risk to public health.

[@kellylynnewilliams6955]

Why cant we do major recycling efforts too.

[@kellylynnewilliams6955]

We need to revamp our waste management !

[@jacobmirels9073]

This guy talks about toothpaste in the US like it doesn't have fluoride....

[@gaple1995]

Right, toothpaste is topical. You’re not ingesting it unlike when you drink fluoridated water.

[@CM-bw9fz]

RFK will make Big Food great again.

[@Selfthinkers]

Finally an administration that’s truly American taking actions on behalf of its citizens! 🇺🇸We are back !

[@ShirleyStLouis]

Don't come and protest when u pay into your Healthcare

[@dollyhooks2436]

This guy must be a dem!

[@kellylynnewilliams6955]

First nutrition and then restoration efforts on air,soil, and water. Eye health as well, decrease screen times.

[@Charles-n8p]

A dodo bird for health care. Incredible.

[@buswell503]

Just listen to the experts. You’ll be fine they said

[@drdeb_ocherry]

Thank goodness we have been saved❣️❣️❣️

[@MolonLabe1776]

RFK Jr is going to suggest and do what we all SHOULD do. Take the BS pollutants out of our lives and be healthier. Yeah, we all have stress and work hard. We also eat sh*tty. Nothing wrong with fast food or microwaveable once in awhile because we don't want to cook. Hell, even Trump and Warren Buffet do McDonald's almost daily but it's costing us billions in medical insurance and our lives.

[@luchiayoung]

No more crap

[@AM-el4iv]

Ivermectin for everything.

[@bobiel9048]

Trump has been working on Healthcare since 2016. I think we’re now at the point, to use a different legal phrase, that ‘healthcare delayed is healthcare denied.'

[@johnward43]

Thank you RFK for helping us save democracy! 👍🏻

[@badmadrichard]

How low is your IQ because it must be really low if you think Robert Kennedy cares about you or me or this country he cares about itself Trump doesn't care about democracy

[@Fede45454]

This video was complete bull

[@annahornstra4078]

Wow! The way he's TRYING to explain why we SHOULD have fluoride in our water leads me to believe that we should absolutely NOT have fluoride in our water. He definitely seems like he works for big pharma!

[@mariovidmar7]

Higher safety medication and Food standard why not , you have less sick citizens

[@shesonfire_]

Idk why they don’t just do what some other countries do. Take a healthcare tax and we can get any type of healthcare we need without a premium or copay. The tax would be a lot smaller than almost two hundred dollars a month for healthcare

[@okgo3763]

I want to continue to feed my kids fruit loops, but I want them to be healthy fruit loops. No one is going to stop buying these foods if they change. We likely wont notice any change at all in taste or texture.

[@jeffhaddix9508]

I don't know about making them healthy, maybe making them less detrimental to health though.

[@billygombirit7090]

Robert f kennedy, i love you so much, please do more shirtless blue jeans again for your workout body sweating. I love you

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

Ngga what😂😂😂

[@DownTheHall-AndToTheLeft]

I'm fully on your side (saw ur other comment/thread a min ago), but just for the record, he's talking about a recent-ish pic of RFK w/ no shirt outside lol, all jacked & stuff lol ​@@JayPatterson-h5b

[@MaliceMister]

I like the part where the health “expert” plays off ADHD caused by food dyes in children like it’s not a big deal. Smh

[@trentutley2968]

Go. Ahead give flouride to your kids not mine

[@BRYANWORTHINGTON]

Apple a day keep the drug dealers away

[@whctjsdlfqhrlfprl]

I wish non of my tax money goes to the poor people who need national healthcare 😂😂😂

[@dystoniaify]

This is one of the rare parts of Trump's plans I agree with.

[@GoldenFrizbee]

He may be a little nutty, but RFK jr is right. I'm totally cool with following Germany's health guidelines.

[@markrobinowitz8473]

The German guidelines the administration is interested in are those enacted in 1933.

[@lauriesager539]

Will be a great change In our country

[@SDriver1111]

Finally this problem is getting some attention. Americans are getting in large numbers and nobody seemed to care.

[@EugeneLorey]

I voted for Trump but if Mike Pompeo ends up in his administration I'm done with him.

[@lucach3594]

Someone who had worm in his brain is gonna take care of our health😂😂😂😂

[@jeffhaddix9508]

You most likely have worms in you right now.

[@ishamiah1619]

Maga 2024!!!!

[@MarieDavis-xt7er]

He's going ahead of himself to save himself from the future

[@AvaJochheim]

Please stop covering so much about trump. He does not deserve this much attention. I'm tuning out and i hope others will too

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

😂😂😂 bruh u dont even want a good country, you just want trump gone. literally go to therapy bro youve got some problems

[@AlexandraWilliams-lp6qc]

Well said

[@sdzero]

You clicked on the video just say you to want to be uninformed? 🤨

[@Kenneth-n3x]

What a bunch of crackpot losers😂😂, listen to yourselves 😂😂😂

[@RS33743]

Don't forget that this guy had a brain worm.. 😳🙄🤔

[@luchiayoung]

You could have a brain worm. All it takes is eating food like pork that isn’t cooked super well.

[@lacurtisfloyd7724]

And a butt worm😅

[@solmadison]

It’s probably what made him so health conscious

[@sdzero]

@@solmadison Health scares are often the trigger to being more health conscious.

[@markrobinowitz8473]

@@solmadison It actually reveals he doesn't pay attention to his own health. Eating road kill isn't a great idea.

[@MrSmith8593]

He is not as dumb as i thought just weird

[@grandcalia8988]

Great. America's food protections by a guy who doesn't know what he's talking about... i.e., 18 ingredients compared to 3.

[@lukewalker4813]

Doesnt take a rocket scientist to know processed foods are bad for you.

[@Zhaturianvisionz]

Youre not in a lab however everything on the back of those boxes are easily searched out online with descriptions. Extra lame deflection and why men must be very critical when deciding on having children by these glames up but lazy women

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

Right😂😂😂 can you believe people are actually rooting against this and the media is still fitting in their propaganda

[@MoonDog991]

Just please don't touch my medicare.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

WHY...being forced to have a pharma drug plan is unconstitutional

[@markrobinowitz8473]

Project 2025, Trump's blueprint, calls for slashing medicare, medicaid, social security and much more.

[@yvonneforsman8649]

That guy needs a different job! Lies won't be accepted from now and on! Lies are out, truth is in. He doesn't understand it yet.

[@roben9580]

MR. PRESIDENT...AND...MR. NEXT PRESIDENT!!!!

[@susanstamboulian646]

Fruity Pebbles are better, anyway!

[@jcanyiam8309]

To all those POOR people who voted for Trump/Vance, Congratulations and say goodbye to $35 insulin and ACA/OBAMACARE If you think your groceries are high, wait till Daddy Trump adds his TARIFS to your groceries!!! 😂😂🤣🤣

[@Lp78Ch]

The real problem is autism. Autism alone will bankrupt America by 2030. You want to find a cure for autism?

[@MazharMojumder]

Yea I don’t have any health insurance I have two jobs they take 200 dollars from check very week 😅 Obamacare is for people who doesn’t work maybe

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

@@MazharMojumderbro !!! 😂😂😂😂 like idk why they act like obama care is the end all be all. Like we can try something else cause health insurance is still trash

[@MazharMojumder]

@ agree our country is run by big pharmaceutical companies and that’s why we need change in fda administration and lower drugs prices

[@heathgreen9275]

Are you done? Do you do anything for yourself or just do what you are told? Do you research anything before you speak? Or do you believe whatever your told? Did you watch the election and see the country has woke up and seen all the lies the media had been telling us? People started being adults and doing some research for themselves.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

hello 2028 pandemic

[@lukewalker4813]

Fauci working on that next strain.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

@lukewalker4813 dude retired/fired. actually bedridden i thought

[@Gemmarose9012]

@@lukewalker4813Fauci was just a puppet.

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JayPatterson-h5b]

LETS GOOOOO IM HYPE 😂😂😂

[@TheFamousRleon]

I will never trust a conspiracy theorist for our health. A medical professional will do. RFK Sr should be ashamed from heaven.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

a medical professional is SUBSIDIZED by big pharma, professionals do NOT practice medicine. Let that sink in what they are doing to you and you PAY them to do it.

[@jakeroberts7435]

😂

[@jeffhaddix9508]

His father and Uncle would be proud. RFK Jr knows where the corruption is and he's going to end it. RFK Jr is going to end the chronic disease epidemic.

[@jeffhaddix9508]

His father and Uncle would be proud. Bobby's going to end the chronic disease epidemic.

[@jcanyiam8309]

RFK, can someone please TRANSLATE what he's saying?

[@Lp78Ch]

I can understand him just fine. What's wrong with you??

[@savannahsmiles1797]

oh you could translate the cackling...wow, that is rich

[@jcanyiam8309]

@@Lp78Ch He is Fucked up. Like a RAT O VAN

[@ishamiah1619]

Kinda excited rfk will get rid of the processed machine and go back to wholesome foods

[@uwinsome]

Dr. Kevorkian , on the way 🎉

[@Edward-yd3zr]

If God is so smart, why didn't He put fluoride in water in the first place?

[@patty7316]

Ain't gonna' happen folks..

[@Selfthinkers]

🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸💯In God We Trust !

[@FWtravels]

Repeal the affordable care act and strip lazy people of free or subsidized healthcare !

[@topangasmith2030]

And for people with disabilities or the elderly with preexisting conditions? I’m not a democrat but i am curious on that sense you just said do away with all of it.

[@JOd-qd8ig]

Did you just say strip the affordable care act WOW... You better not say things like that because you never know how that can bite You in the ass one day !! Everyone who has the affordable care act are Not all lazy.. People who have the Affordable care act all have different circumstances that qualify them for that particular health insurance option. Do not label everyone as lazy just because they have affordable care act.. Some working families have jobs that offer health insurance but the plans are way too expensive per month to pay such as a single parent with children who is trying to work to make ends meet and paying for everything out of the pocket for his or her children.The times we live in are not cheap everything is expensive from food rent gas clothes medicine car insurance and more .. I do not like when people judge and never know what others have going on.. You Said Strip Affordable care act As if you You want people to suffer... You Sound Exactly Like You Are A Hardcore Donald Trump MAGA Supporter.. You Are Disgusting 😠

[@JOd-qd8ig]

​@@topangasmith2030 Affordable care act is well needed. I love how it give people with Certain circumstances a full opportunity to receive Affordable health insurance while trying to maintain every life and function as much as possible. However Early Retired people with medical conditions who are middle aged but not yet reached 65 to receive Medicare health insurance have the option to receive Obama Care ( Medicare for All the Affordable care act Health insurance because that particular person will fit into that category to receive it. This health insurance has helped millions of Americans that work low income jobs like a single parent with children but on a budget paying bills all by herself and can't afford health insurance, that also qualifies another example.. There are more examples but that is only a couple for now..

[@JadusMoltriel]

First, medicaid is not for "lazy" people. If you recieve it due to not working, then it's due to disability, which has to be verified by doctors before it's granted. You can't just wake up one day and say, "you know what, I want to stop working and just get medicaid." Second, WHY should HEALTHcare cost anything? If there's anything in the world that should be free, besides water, it's healthcare. Everyone should have a right to healthcare, no matter their economic status. There are people who have been working 2-3 jobs at a time for years, and are still in the lowest tax brackets due to low wages and high costs of living. That's not lazy. They deserve healthcare as much as anyone.

[@markrobinowitz8473]

Every other wealthy country has public health care for its people. Stop groveling to the billionaires.

[@nanc-w8n]

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗔𝗦𝗬𝗟𝗨𝗠 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗚𝗘𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗦𝗢𝗢𝗡