In a fiery exchange with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Jan. 30, President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chastised the lawmaker for accepting money from pharmaceutical companies.
Sanders is the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) ranking member.
On Jan. 30, Kennedy answered questions from the panel after appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance for his first confirmation hearing on Jan. 29.
During the exchange, Sanders said that the United States’ health care system is “broken” due to “some of the reasons that Kennedy indicated,” which include chronic disease and a national life expectancy that is lower than that of countries “far poorer than we are.”…