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On Capitol Hill, questions remain in the Senate a month after President-elect Trump

picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

NPR's Luke Garrett has more.

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska tells NPR she is meeting with RFK Jr. next week.

I am from a state where vaccines have, you know, saved whole villages.

And so I want to talk to him about the issue of vaccines.

RFK Jr. ran for president as an independent and spread anti-vaccine messages and conspiracies.

Kennedy dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump. Murkowski says, beyond vaccines, she also wants to hear his ideas

about pesticide use and nutrition. I'm curious to talk to him about some of the food issues as well,

so it should be a great conversation. Kennedy has been highly critical of big food and pharmaceutical

industries. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington. Police in New York City say there's no indication

the man charged with killing the CEO of United Healthcare was ever insured by that company. Authorities

allege suspect Luigi Mangione could have targeted CEO Brian Thompson because of the size of his company.

NPR's Maria Aspen reports some people continue to point to the shooting as a reason to re-examine

the state of the nation's health care industry. Dr. Diana Gernida is one of many doctors fed up

with health insurance companies. I can tell you so many stories about fighting them and winning, but it's consuming.

Now Granita runs a direct care practice, where she mostly avoids dealing with big insurance

companies, but she still understands the frustration that so many have shared this week.

Brian Thompson led the largest U.S. health insurer, which has been widely criticized for denying medical claims.

He was shot and killed on his way to an investor meeting.

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