STAT+: GOP works to square making America healthy with taking away health insurance

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make American Healthy Again movement calls for many things — avoiding chronic disease, making our food healthier, eliminating environmental risks, and rooting out corporate influence. Insurance isn’t one of them.

RFK Jr. is Trump’s pick for the nation’s top health role, running the Department of Health and Human Services. His movement’s goal of keeping people healthy might seem to be at odds with anticipated Republican policies that would result in higher uninsured rates. 

Some Republicans, on the other hand, say higher rates of health insurance have not made people healthier, and people wouldn’t need insurance as often if they were to adopt healthier lifestyles.

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