HHS Sec. RFK Jr.: 60 Percent of U.S. Kids Have Chronic Diseases

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KENNEDY JR.: “When my uncle was president, 3 percent of American kids had chronic disease. Today it’s around 60 percent. And — and these are a broad category, the ones that Marty mentioned, like ADHD, the neurological disorders. ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, ticks, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, and autism. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid. They were not part of the nomenclature. They weren’t part of the dialogue. There was zero spent in this country treating chronic disease when my uncle was president. Today it’s about $1.8 trillion annually. It’s bankrupting our nation.”