RFK Jr.’s Push For Nutrition Education Could Save Taxpayers Trillions
Kennedy’s new educational program could change the course of America’s health crisis, one medical student at a time.Kennedy’s new educational program could change the course of America’s health crisis, one medical student at a time.Joy Behar’s TrumpRx rant shows how elites think
Joy Behar’s elitist meltdown on “The View” exposed exactly why disconnected celebrities fail ordinary American families. She hysterically claimed “we’re all going to die” because President Trump launched TrumpRx.gov to slash prescription drug prices.
While Behar lectures from her insulated bubble, millions of parents are choosing between groceries and lifesaving medicine for their sick children.
Reducing prescription drug prices by cutting out middlemen and forcing better pricing is not a death sentence. It is relief.
Behar warned viewers that the president uses TrumpRx to “put his name” on prescription drugs. Then, as a consequence, she declared, “we’re all going to die.”
Seriously?
Co-host Sunny Hostin piled on.
“He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart,” Hostin told ABC’s nationwide audience. “He’s doing this to make money.”
No, President Trump does not profit from TrumpRx. The president receives no royalties, fees, or equity. TrumpRx is not a private entity. Several websites refer to it as “the government’s drug purchasing portal.” As anyone can see from the website address, trumprx.gov, it is a government operation.
TrumpRx delivers real relief through direct-to-consumer discounts, most favored nation pricing, and partnerships such as Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, which cut out middlemen and deliver major savings.
Consider children and individuals with serious medical needs.
Regeneron’s groundbreaking gene therapy, Otarmeni, treats a rare genetic form of deafness. Under the TrumpRx deal, it is available at no cost to American families, restoring a child’s hearing without bankrupting parents.
Families facing juvenile idiopathic arthritis or pediatric Crohn’s disease can access Humira through TrumpRx for about $950 per dose instead of nearly $7,000. That life-changing savings allows children to stay active and avoid debilitating pain.
Fertility drugs like Gonal-F dropped from hundreds of dollars to as little as $168 per pen, helping families begin the journey of conceiving and starting a family. Bevespi Aerosphere, an inhaler used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, fell from $458 to $51. Airsupra, an inhaler used to treat asthma symptoms and attacks, dropped from $504 to $201. Trulicity, used to manage type 2 diabetes, fell from $987 to $389.
For many families, those savings are immediate and concrete.
TrumpRx also lowers costs on dozens of other brand-name and generic medications for diabetes, asthma, migraines, and rare diseases that strike children and adults. Parents no longer have to skip refills because the price is impossible. Behar’s reflexive hatred of Trump blinds her to the suffering of working families crushed by prior high prices.
That is the real scandal.
The women of “The View” are not angry that medicine costs too much. They are angry that Trump found a way to cut costs and gets the credit for it. Their politics matter more than the families who benefit.
For a nurse, that is impossible to stomach. Families do not care whether a lower price arrives with Trump’s name attached to it. They care whether they can fill the prescription, pay the mortgage, and keep their child healthy.
TrumpRx is not perfect. No government program is. But reducing prescription drug prices by cutting out middlemen and forcing better pricing is not a death sentence. It is relief.
Behar and Hostin can sneer from the studio. Parents at the pharmacy counter know better.
Trump Should Take Down The American Medical Association’s Licensing Grift
As a government-backed, overtly left-wing monopoly, the AMA no longer deserves a privileged role in the country’s health ecosystem.No more handouts for high-fructose hustlers
Political courage is rare, and common sense now gets dismissed as a conspiracy theory. This week, however, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a step that should have been taken decades ago. He told Big Soda: “Not on the taxpayer’s dime.”
“If you want to buy a sugary soda, the U.S. taxpayer should not pay for it,” Kennedy said, in remarks that rattled the food-industrial complex. “The U.S. taxpayer should not be paying to feed kids, the poorest kids in the country, that will give them diabetes.”
Banning soda and candy from SNAP removes the government’s role as the sugar daddy of the sugar industry.
The sugar lobby, soda executives, and professional grievance-mongers will no doubt howl, accusing Kennedy of “food policing” or “waging war on the poor.” But defending Pepsi purchases with food stamps as a civil rights cause doesn’t just miss the point — it reveals how far detached these elites are from reality.
State-subsidized sickness
“We are spending $405 million a day on” the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Kennedy said. “About 10% is going to sugary drinks. If you add candies to that, it's about 13% to 17%.” That’s roughly $60 million a day funneled into sugar water and junk food — paid for by you, the taxpayer.
This is state-subsidized sickness. America’s diabetes epidemic didn’t happen by chance — it’s the inevitable result of a system that promotes poor nutrition, rewards ultra-processed junk, and ignores the long-term damage.
More than 11% of Americans now live with diabetes. It’s not just a blood sugar problem — it’s a direct path to amputations, blindness, kidney failure, and premature death.
The American Diabetes Association puts the total economic cost of diagnosed diabetes at $412 billion annually. That’s a national crisis, not a mere lifestyle choice. And the bitter irony? The same government programs paying for treatment are also funding the sugar that drives the disease.
Stop footing the bill
Kennedy’s move isn’t cruel. It’s compassionate. It’s “making America healthy again.”
The opposition is already lining up. The usual suspects will cry “nanny state,” as if forcing taxpayers to underwrite Mountain Dew is some sacred constitutional principle.
Others will insist people have the right to choose what they eat — and they do. But choosing to guzzle liquid diabetes is not the same as expecting everyone else to pick up the tab.
No one’s banning soda. Buy it. Swim in it, if you like. Just don’t expect SNAP funds — meant to keep vulnerable families from going hungry — to cover your 64-ounce daily dose of high-fructose heartbreak.
Kennedy’s proposal isn’t radical. The Women, Infants, and Children program already limits purchases to nutritionally approved foods, prioritizing health over indulgence. SNAP should follow the same logic.
Our national health model is failing. As Tim Keller, founder of U.S. Diabetes Care and a fierce critic of reactive medicine, puts it: “Western medicine is broken. Doctors treat a symptom, not a patient.”
A broken health paradigm
Keller is right. We’ve built an entire health care system on the back of symptom suppression — pills for blood pressure, injections for insulin, meds for cholesterol — while ignoring the root causes.
Instead of handing patients more prescriptions, approaches like Keller's emphasize science-backed lifestyle changes that reverse diabetes altogether. These tools don’t just manage symptoms; they seek to reverse diabetes altogether using modern tools like diabetes management apps, empowering patients with real-time data, meal tracking, and coaching.
The result is a digital frontline in the war against chronic disease. “Diabetes is not a life sentence — we’re here to prove it,” says Keller.
But all the apps, education, and healthy lifestyle coaching in the world mean nothing if we keep dumping sugar down the throats of the nation’s poorest citizens with federal blessing. You can’t cure diabetes while simultaneously funding it.
Drawing a red line
MAHA needs to draw a firm line. It can’t posture as the party of platitudes while taxpayer billions bankroll chronic disease.
The United States spends more on health care than any nation on Earth, yet it trails most developed countries on nearly every health measure. That’s no accident. It’s the inevitable result of subsidizing failure and calling it “freedom.”
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Removing soda and candy from SNAP is a simple, necessary first step to reversing this decline. It preserves personal choice while ending the federal government’s role as sugar daddy to the sugar industry.
MAHA’s moment
Conservatives should seize this moment. If we’re serious about cutting waste, improving public health, and restoring dignity to our social safety net, we should champion reforms like this — not shy away from them.
Nothing is “pro poor” about enabling chronic disease. Nothing is “compassionate” about funding metabolic illness. And nothing is “American” about trapping people in a system that feeds them into the health care meat grinder.
Let’s Make America Healthy Again. Let’s end the era of federally funded junk food. And let’s prove that health, like liberty, starts with responsibility.
CNN panelist claims diabetes is caused by the N-word
Former Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York went on a fiery rant on CNN, blaming everything from obesity to heart disease in the black community on Republican colleagues and getting “called the N-word.”
“The problem is we are not dealing with America’s original sin and its disease of hate and racism towards black and brown people and sexism towards women and anti-LGBTQ sentiment,” Bowman said.
“We are not dealing with that. Your colleagues in the Republican Party do not hold each other accountable when it comes to the racism that comes from the party on a consistent basis,” he continued. “You can’t be calm about this. I’m a black man in America.”
“The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day,” he added.
BlazeTV host Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is shocked.
“So, even obesity in the black community is the fault of white people,” Gray says, astounded.
“They only get called the N-word by black people,” Jeffy argues.
“That’s true,” Gray agrees. “So maybe you might want to deal with that in your community.”
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The FDA is KILLING Americans — is RFK our only hope?
RFK Jr. was just confirmed as Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and according to the data he’s reported on, it couldn’t come at a better time.
“Americans' overall health is in a grievous condition,” RFK said during his confirmation hearing. “Over 70% of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese. Diabetes is 10 times more prevalent than it was during the 1960s. Cancer among young people is rising by 1% or 2% a year.”
“Autoimmune diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer's, asthma, ADHD, depression, addiction, and a host of other physical and mental health conditions are all on the rise. Some of them exponentially,” he continued.
Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” couldn’t be happier that RFK was confirmed, but she can’t help but wonder how we got to this point — especially considering that America spends almost twice the average of other countries on health care.
“We’re spending twice the global average, but we’re not amongst the healthiest countries,” Gonzales says. “If you want to look at the top five healthiest countries, you’ve got Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel. And then the U.S., not at the sixth, the 74th. That’s abysmal.”
One of the reasons, Gonzales believes, is because our government agencies don’t actually have our best interest at heart.
“The FDA repeatedly failed to take timely action on a wide range of safety and health issues the agency has been aware of for several years. ... Look at what is in our food and how sick it's making us. You look at fast food. If you look at the same menu items in this country and then abroad, sometimes they’re twice as salty, twice the sodium levels, double the sodium levels in the United States as they are abroad,” she continues.
“Excessive sodium consumption is linked to thousands of premature deaths in the U.S.,” she says. “You look at all of this, and you know that the FDA took so long to recommend and adopt lower sodium levels in packaged and prepared foods.”
“The American Heart Association concluded that if the food and restaurant industries would have adopted the lower sodium levels presented in the FDA’s proposed two-year and 10-year targets on the schedule, nearly 265,000 lives could have been saved between 2017 and 2031,” she continues, adding, “You know, something about our government poisoning its own citizens just riles me up.”
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