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02/14/2025

Three Things to Watch for as RFK, Jr. Takes the Helm as Health Secretary

The new director of America's healthcare possesses no medical background

Now that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been sworn in as the nation's next health secretary Thursday, his first order of business will be to investigate America's problem with chronic illnesses.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told conservative outlet Fox News earlier that President Donald Trump would sign an executive order creating a "Make America Health Again" commission and direct Kennedy "to investigate this chronic crisis plaguing our country and the minds and the bodies of the American people."

What that will mean exactly remains to be seen. But here are three things to watch for as Kennedy takes the helm, based on what he and Trump have said in the past.

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