Whatever your politics, we can probably agree that make America healthy again is an appealing catchphrase.

But it comes with a lot of big questions.

Most notably, whose idea of healthy are we talking about and what kinds of government policies and investments might get us there?

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. President-elect Trump seems happy to leave those questions up to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Sion of the Kennedy political dynasty,

former Democrat turned independent presidential candidate, late-breaking endorser and embracer of Donald

Trump for president. Kennedy is not a physician or a scientist. He's an environmental

lawyer. But he has very strong feelings about what is necessary to improve this country's health

profile, some of which are in line with mainstream science, others of which many experts say

could be downright dangerous. And if confirmed, as Health and Human Services Secretary, Kennedy

will be at the top of a huge list of federal agencies with a combined $1.7 trillion annual budget.

Yasmin Tyag has been looking into Kennedy's proposals.

She's a staff writer at The Atlantic where you can read her article,

Make America Healthy Again, sounds good until you start asking questions.

Yasmin, welcome to think.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's not so unusual for presidential nominees to be somewhat controversial, but is it strange for somebody to create both excitement and deep concerns among people all across the political

spectrum? Yes. I think we're used to presidential appointees having very clear political allegiances,

and that generally results in either Republicans or Democrats criticizing them.

But in RFK's case, he has both support and has elicited criticism from people of both parties,

which is definitely strange. His views reflect both concerns of the left and the right.

And the Department of Health and Human Services is an extraordinarily large one.

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