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Aloha, Namaste everyone, and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,

featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the quarters of power in America,

sculpting and shaping the event flow of our politics and culture.

You may dimly recall that a couple days after Labor Day, not long ago in any normal world, but ancient history in

the head spinning hyperdrive one that we currently inhabit. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared

at an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Finance Committee and received a bipartisan thrashing

that would have been deeply painful to witness if it weren't so richly

deserved, supremely necessary, and stunningly revealing. For a lot of folks, in fact, it was the

moment when the penny finally dropped on just how totally screwed the country's public health

system has become in just half a year since the conspiracy

theory peddling, anti-vax, settled science denying, bare carcass transporting, dead whale

decapitating, brainworm boasting scion of America's most fabled democratic dynasty, took

over the Department of Health and Human Services. But as screwed as you think America's most fabled Democratic dynasty took over the Department of Health and Human Services.

But as screwed as you think America's public health system and therefore America's public health

may be under the auspices of RFK Jr., I have a newsflash for you.

It's far more screwed, like way more screwed than you even think.

Or at least that is my semi-informed, well, not that well-informed impression.

So it's an impression that I wanted to test.

By running it past one of the leading authorities on public health in this or any nation,

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