While I agree health is an issue, he provides unsupported, overstated, or misleading data. Clean impartial and valid balanced speaking notes attached.
WATCH: You can see the pain written all over RFK Jr.’s face as he lays out just how sick America has become.
The numbers are gut-wrenching.
• “We announced this week, CDC announced that 76.4% of Americans are suffering a chronic disease. And my uncle was president, it was 11%. In 1950, it was 3%.”
• “We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world and yet we spend more on healthcare than any country in the world. We spend two to three times what European nations spend. We spend nearly as much in our country for healthcare as all the other nations in the world combined. And yet we have the worst health outcomes.”
• “We’ve lost six years in lifespan and longevity to Europe in the past 20 years.”
• “Our girls are hitting puberty six years earlier than historically. Our young men have sperm counts that are half of what they ought to be. They have testosterone levels that are half of what they ought to be.”
• “We have diabetes that is now endemic, not just epidemic. It’s everywhere. Thirty-eight percent of teens are now diabetic or pre-diabetic. When I was a kid, it was zero.”
• “The autism rates, which the president is particularly concerned with, have dropped from less than one in 10,000 in 1970 to one in every 31 kids today. This is a national security issue.”
• “Eight out of 10 of our young men cannot qualify for military service. It’s national security. It’s our economy. It’s wrecking. This is an existential crisis for our country.”