Kennedy is known for many things including his concerns about food dyes, vaccines, and vaccine mandates, but Twila Brase of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCH Freedom) says there are other issues that come out of Health and Human Services.
"So, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, privacy issues and the Office of Civil Rights, all of those kinds of things which our organization works on," says Brase, president and co-founder of CCH Freedom. "I think it's a little less clear what side that he might be on with those issues."
President-elect Trump ran as a Republican and Kennedy is a Democrat, but Brase says Kennedy has shown that he has a "great sense of concern for people and patients."
"I believe he supports physician autonomy so all of that is good, but I wonder how it will play out," says Brase. "He would still have to work within the confines of the president's agenda and certainly within the confines of the Congress' agenda. Even though he's a Democrat, if he's confirmed, I don't believe he would have free reign."
Trump's background is in business, not healthcare.
As a result, Brase says it's important to have people who really know what patient and doctor freedom look like "to make sure that they are in contact with President Trump and his staff" so as to steer RFK Jr. along if he starts going in a direction not in line with freedom.
