A look at what’s in RFK’s Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report – and what’s missing
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration released its plan today for improving health outcomes and tackling chronic |
| 0:05.6 | childhood illnesses. It comes from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America |
| 0:11.0 | Healthy Again, or Maha, commission he oversees. The plan lays out more than 120 proposals, |
| 0:17.0 | from cutting back on processed foods to reassessing behavioral medications for kids. |
| 0:22.5 | Kennedy also wants a review of the vaccination schedule and the vaccine injury compensation fund. |
| 0:28.4 | He says if the changes are implemented, it could improve public health. |
| 0:33.4 | A lot of these 128 recommendations are things that I've been dreaming about my whole life. |
| 0:42.4 | Our Lisa Desjardin was at HHS for the unveiling of these guidelines and joins us now to explain what's in the framework. |
| 0:48.9 | It's always great to see you. |
| 0:50.1 | So help us understand what is this report exactly? |
| 0:53.4 | This is a part two. In May, Maha, the commission came out with its first report, which was really |
| 0:58.0 | showing what the problem was in American health, and it's an immense problem. This is the part |
| 1:03.0 | two, the strategy that RFK Jr., the secretary, and the Maha commission are proposing to deal with it. |
| 1:09.0 | These are not rules going into effect, but actions that they plan to take. |
| 1:13.2 | Now, they're saying overall that what they want is a new approach to all of these issues. |
| 1:17.2 | Here's how the FDA commissioner put it. |
| 1:20.0 | Doctors are thirsty for this fresh new agenda. We can tell that something's not right. |
| 1:30.1 | We've done a terrible thing to doctors in this country. The health care system has put them on a hamster wheel where we are treating, we're |
| 1:35.9 | prescribing, we're operating. I was on this wheel. Now, the report's not long, 20 pages, |
| 1:41.4 | and most of these guidelines or actions are short bullet points. |
| 1:45.2 | Some of them are general, some specific. |
| 1:47.6 | But there's an example I want to give about nutrition. |
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