On Thursday February 13, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr was confirmed by the US Senate by a 52 to 48 vote to be the Trump Administrations’ Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), later that day he was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Following the attempted assassination of former President and then Republican candidate Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, RFK jr, who himself was running for President, was prompted by Calley Means to speak with Trump. Common ground was found, and on August 23, 2024 Kennedy withdrew his Presidential candidacy in swing states, and endorsed Trump for President. That same day, at a Trump rally in Arizona and was received with an epic applause. It was from here the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement grew, in combination with the the already established and ever growing Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
Trump soon announced his nomination for RFK jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the top position overseeing NIH, CDC and the FDA, three authorities that are put pedestals around the world.
Bobby Kennedy’s stated mission is to end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in the united states.
Kennedy is physically fit, working out daily, an impressive regimen for a 70 year old. He has suffered through and over come many personal health challenges, being a recovered alcoholic and drug addict, attending AA meetings regularly, but he also lives with a “rare neurological disorder that causes his larynx to tighten uncontrollably and his voice to halt and tremor”. This condition called spasmodic dysphonia was diagnosed in the ’90s, but has progressively got worse. Kennedy suspects this condition is linked to a flu vaccine.
- MAHANow.org: President Trump heads back to the White House! RFK Jr. heads to D.C.
Our People-Powered Movement is more powerful than Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Food and the War Machine. – WEB, ARCHIVE - Kennedy on Rumble – HERE
This timeline page will attempt to capture this pivotal moment in the history of US health reform, led by RFK jr. A movement that will have massive implications through out the world.
Data points in reverse chronological order
Links will continuously be added below
2025
August 5, 2025 – HHS Secretary Kennedy announces via X -the defunding of 22 mRNA vaccine development investments targeting upper respiratory infections like COVID-19 and flu. – TWEET, WATCH, RFK Jr. Drops a Mega Bombshell on mRNA Vaccine Technology –CREDIT, CREDIT, TIMELINE
BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr HHS Secretary via X
- Aug 5, 2025 – Ryan Cole M.D.: “It’s Not A Ban On mRNA, But It’s A Wind Down Of The Government Investing Through BARDA In These Technologies” – EXCERPT
- Trump announces Aug 7th “we are having a meeting about it tomorrow” – TWEET
- “This is an inflection point. We know the mRNA lobby is busy pulling every lever in an attempt to get President Trump to reverse the decision.” states Dr Malone – READ
- Lobby group the Alliance for mRNA Medicines (AMM) formed November 2023
- Aug 9, 2025 – Episode 4696 of Bannons WarRoom: Dr. Bhattacharya: “As Far As Public Health Goes For Vaccines, The mRNA Platform Is No Longer Viable” – WATCH, EXCERPT
July 31, 2025 – The Highwire Ep 435: RFK TAKES AIM AT BROKEN VACCINE COURT – EXCERPT, FULL
- Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling out the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) as “a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption,” where injured families are stonewalled instead of supported. Del breaks down how victims face a court with no judge, no jury, and no real science. Could this be the administration that finally fixes it?
The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it….
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) a trade organisation, not a medical organisation, who gives $34.7M to HHS each year, stated on X this move erodes confidence in vaccine products – a product that makes pediatricians millions from pharma and government kickbacks. [ARCHIVE]
- “Pediatricians office makes about 50% of it’s funding comes from vaccines” states RFK in Sept 2024 – WATCH, (CLICK for proof)
June 11, 2025 – Gateway Pundit: [HHS Secretary] RFK Jr. Appoints Several Prominent Critics of COVID-19 Vaccines to Key Committee After Firing Entire Advisory Panel – READ, The Highwire Ep 428 – EXCERPT, FULL
- @SecKennedy: “On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s scheduled June 25 meeting….” – TWEET
- New ACIP member include Robert W. Malone, MD; Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD; Joseph R. Hibbeln, MD; Retsef Levi, PhD; Cody Meissner, MD; James Pagano, MD; Vicky Pebsworth, OP, PhD, RN; and Michael A. Ross, MD.
- June 12, 2025 – Marianne Demasi Reports: Is Kennedy’s new CDC vaccine panel the end of the rubber-stamp era? They questioned the narrative. Now they’re shaping the policy. – READ
June 9, 2025 – Gateway Punit: U.S. Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel in Stunning “Clean Sweep” – ACIP committee – READ
- @SecKennedy: “Today, we are taking a bold step in restoring public trust by totally reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.” – TWEET
- Kennedy revaling the conflicts of intrests on former ACIP committees, such as Dr Paul Offitt on Fox News with Martha MacCullum – WATCH
The Highwire revisit jaw-dropping ACIP meeting in February 2018 – WATCH
May 28, 2025 – HHS Secretary Kennedy: “I had a wonderful meeting with Argentine President @JMilei about our nations’ mutual withdrawal from the WHO and the creation of an alternative international health system based on gold-standard science and free from totalitarian impulses, corruption, and political control.” – TWEET, CREDIT
May 20, 2025 – Fox News: RFK Jr. address World Health Assembly in fiery video explaining US’ withdrawal from WHO – WATCH, ‘We Need to Reboot the Whole System’ – CHD –CREDIT
- “Kennedy’s remarks came one day after the WHO member states reached a deal on a Pandemic Agreement, and months after President Donald Trump issued an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO on the first day of his second term in January.”
May 1, 2025 – CHD | the Defender: RFK Jr. Will Order All New Vaccines to Undergo Placebo-Controlled Testing, Washington Post Reports – – READ, CREDIT
- …in “a radical departure from past practices,” the agency will set a new rule. “All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure.” The news drew both praise and criticism from medical experts.
- Dr Humpries – “…this need to be very specific about what “placebo” means. Plenty of trials call themselves placebo controlled and have all sorts of background substance from the actual vaccine in the so-called placebo. The placebo should be specifically saline and nothing else….” – TWEET
February 19, 2025 – Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE Covid vaccine faces ban for all Americans in radical U-turn by Trump team – READ
- Covid vaccines could be suspended for all age groups in America under radical new plans backed by key health figures in the Trump Administration.
- Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who has been nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is one of the signatories of the Hope Accord petition calling for the mRNA vaccines to be paused and retested, and claims there is a ‘causal link’ between the mRNA shots and an alarming rise in excess deaths worldwide.
February 18, 2025 – CHD: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Delivers his his welcoming speech to the Health and Human Services department – WATCH
February 15, 2025 – Gateway Pundit: Massive Shake-Up at NIH and CDC: Over 5,000 Probationary Employees Fired in Friday Purge – READ (Not RFK Jr order)
February 14, 2025 – White House: Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Prohibits Federal Funding for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools – PUTTING AN END TO GOVERNMENT OVERREACH: – READ
- AP: Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines – READ, NBC – READ
February 14, 2025 – CHD | The Defender: RFK Jr. Promises Better Vaccine Injury Tracking, as White House Launches MAHA Commission – READ, Vigilant News: RFK Jr. Drops a Stunning Announcement on Fox News – READ,
- Acting HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced plans to launch a vaccine injury reporting system that actually works in an effort to overhaul or completely replace the flawed Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
- Citing the CDC funded, 2010 Harvard study that over 3 years collected data on 715,000 patients and concluded that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse effects were reported. – PDF
February 13, 2025 – The White House | Executive Order: Establishing The President’s Make Americ Healthy Again Commission – READ, CREDIT, Dr Malone: President Trump Establishes a MAHA Commission – READ
- “American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population. Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have two or more chronic diseases. An estimated one in five United States adults lives with a mental illness….”
February 13, 2025 – CHD | The Defender: Breaking: RFK Jr. Sworn in as HHS Secretary – READ
- The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. Kennedy, founder and former chairman of Children’s Health Defense, has vowed to end the epidemic of chronic disease in children.
- As HHS secretary, Kennedy will oversee:
- the largest budget of any federal agency — $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2025
- 13 public health agencies, including:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- 90,000 staff members
- the agency is the largest federal grantmaker
- the management of federally funded health insurance coverage and regulates private insurance
- the agency sets policy for public health and disease control; coordinates emergency preparedness and response for natural disasters, health crises and other events; and oversees food and drug safety.
- Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a doctor who had expressed concerns about some of Kennedy’s positions on vaccines said Kennedy agreed to maintain statements on the CDC website that vaccines do not cause autism and to maintain the recommendations of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. [Watch what happens when the data gets released!]
February 13, 2025 – The Highwire Episode 411: MEDICAL FREEDOM’S GOLDEN AGE – WATCH
- Del celebrates Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s monumental confirmation as HHS Secretary live from Washington, D.C., just moments after the vote. – WATCH
February 13, 2025 – The Gateway Pundit: MAHA! RFK Jr. CONFIRMED as HHS Secretary with 52-48 Vote — Mitch McConnell Lone Republican to Vote ‘No’ – READ, Final Vote – WATCH
February 13, 2025 – The Highwire | ICAN Legislate: LIVE from Washington DC: US Senate Final Vote on RFK Jr. for HHS – WATCH,
- Vote tally Yes 52 to No’s 48 “confirmation is confirmed” – EXCERPT
February 13, 2025 – The White House: President Trump Participates in Swearing in Ceremony for the Secretary of Health and Human Services – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – WATCH, BACKUP, NY Post – READ
- Kennedy chose Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to administer the oath of office
Our plans are radical transparency and returning gold standard science to the NIH, FDA and CDC … ending the corruption …and corporate capture of these agencies, and getting rid of these people on those panels that have conflicts of interest” .. [so we can do unimpeded science, not the science that has been coming out of these agencies.]
Bobby created a nationwide movement made up of millions and millions of mothers and fathers and young people and concerned citizens of every background to end this horrible chronic disease crisis that exists in America.
He’s absolutely committed to getting dangerous chemicals out of our environment, and out of our food supply, and getting the American people the facts and the answers that we deserve after years in which our public health system has squandered the trust of our citizens
February 6, 2025 – The Highwire Ep 410: RFK JR. NOMINATION HEADED TO SENATE FOR FINAL VOTE – Del explains how the system of confirmation works – EXCERPT, FULL,
- “The first round of voting has concluded for HHS Secretary confirmation of Robert F Kennedy, Jr. with speculation putting the final vote some time next week.”
February 4, 2025 – Gateway Pundit: BREAKING: RFK Jr. Approved Out of Committee to Become HHS Secretary After Never-Trump RINO Senator Bill Cassidy Caves Following “Very Intense Conversations” with White House – READ
Februay 4, 2025 – CHD | The Defender: RFK Jr. Wins Crucial Vote, Moves One Step Closer to Top HHS Post – READ
February 4, 2025 – C-SPAN: Senate Finance Committee Vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Secretary Nomination – WATCH, EXCERPT, BACKUP
- Members of the Senate Finance Committee discussed and voted along party lines to send the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s to serve as President Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to the Senate floor. The committee voted 14-13, with Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician, voting “yes.”
- Nomination moves forward to the full Senate!
- The Highwire: some of the grueling questioning and rightful praise from the extremely partisan committee… – EXCERPTS
January 30, 2025 – C-SPAN: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Testifies at Health and Human Services Secretary – 2nd Confirmation Hearing – WATCH, The Highwire coverage – WATCH
January 28, 2025 – The Highwire | ICAN Legislate : Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies in his first confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee for the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services. – WATCH
January 23, 2025 – The Highwire Ep 408: – Medical freedom made history this week with the very first inaugural ball dedicated to the MAHA movement – in honour of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – EXCERPT, FULL
2024
November 14, 2024 – Trump nominates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary – TWEET, CNN – READ
I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health.
The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country.
Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!
November 8, 2024 – The Highwire: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Joins Trump Transition Team with Health Reform Agenda, Issues Warning to FDA – READ
November 6, 2024 – RFK Jr “President Trump has asked me to do three things” – WATCH
- 1) Clean up the corruption in our government health agencies.
- 2) Return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science.
- 3) Make America Healthy Again by ending the chronic disease epidemic.
- Trump wan’t to see “measurable, concrete results in 2 years”
November 6, 2024 – NPR: RFK Jr. discusses potential role in the Trump administration and health policy vision – READ
Robert F. Kennedy cares more about human beings and health and the environment than anybody, and he’s going to be – having him is such a great honor. I’ve been friends of his for a long time, and I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on medicines.
November 3, 2024 – The Next Pandemic (narrative) – WATCH
- During the COVID-19 Pandemic, America with 4.2% of the global population, racked up the highest death rate of any country. America has16% of the pandemic death toll attributed to COVID-19. Why are we giving awards to people managing COVID?
- According to CDC, the average American who died from COVID-19 had 3.8 chronic diseasese (comorbidities) – America is sick.
- CDC can’t find a single healthy kid who died from COVID-19
- [If those same people had any type of flu diagnosis, would they be just as susceptible? No doubt, yes. It’s not a virus killing them, is a dysfunctional immune system, coupled with fear and a captured “medical” system]
September 9, 2024 – via Vigilant Fox: RFK Jr. reveals the REAL reason pediatricians won’t accept unvaccinated kids. – WATCH
Pediatricians office makes about 50% of it’s funding comes from vaccines, , not actually from selling the individual vaccines, but from the traffic….[this is] a major part of the business plan for the pediatrician office.
- Insurance companies Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Physician Incentive Program award more money to the practice for high vaccination rates of 80-85% (RFK states), in 2016 this was 63% as shown below. This is why conciencious objectors (non-vaccinators) are kicked out of the pediatrician practices.
- “insurance companies pay pediatricians massive bonuses based on the percentage of children who are fully vaccinated by age 2″ – ARCHIVE
- i.e. $400/fully vaccinated child x 100 patients = $40,000 in practice bonus funds. But the catch “pediatricians lose the whole bonus unless at least 63% of patients are fully vaccinated, and that includes the flu vaccine.” – REF
- Blue Cross is an umbrella organisation of insurance companies – ARCHIVE, 2002 – ARCHIVE
See page 4 “Payout Summary” Childhood Immunizations pay out $400 per child if 64% practice is compliant
September 8, 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. via X: “together @realDonaldTrump and I will Make America Healthy Again. #MAHA” – TWEET
September 7, 2024 – The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement begins – TWEET
September 7, 2024 -Via X – WATCH
“…what Donald Trump calls the ‘Deep State’ … it’s a conspiracy of self-interests that functions together in tandem to shift wealth upward, to clamp down totalitarian controls, and to transform this country from the world’s exemplary democracy into a corporate kleptocracy and a very, very oppressive oligarchical system. [That’s] the kind of system that we fought a revolution to overthrow in 1776.”
August 26, 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Teaming up With Trump, Pavel Durov’s Arrest, CIA, and the Fall of the Democrat Party – first interview since endosing Trump – WATCH, TWEET, CREDIT, TIMELINE
- Kennedy talks about the lead-up to endorsing Trump – EXCERPT
- The important issues are ending wars, ending censorship and protecting children’s health
- “there’s nothing more profitable today than a sick child…they don’t want to kill them, they want them sick for the rest of their lives…” – EXCERPT
- Following a call from Calley Means about 3hrs after President Trump was shot, RFK was informed that Trump also was receiving information about the state of sickness in the Nation. Bobby’s wife Cheryl advise that he should hear him out. Tucker also texted Bobby to help set up the meeting with Trump. When they met up “it was really an interesting meeting, he was so open…” – EXCERPT
And I have not led a careful life, but the way… I led a colourful life…[not criminal]
I have so many skeletons in my closet, that if they could vote, I could run for king of the world!
August 24, 2024 – The public react to Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump for President
August 23, 2024 – RSBN: Trump Rally at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona -RFK Jr. Speaks at Trump Rally – RFK Jr. Receives Rockstar Welcome at Trump Rally in Arizona – WATCH, President Trumps full speech – WATCH
August 23, 2024 – BREAKING: RFK Jr. drops out, endorses Trump: FULL SPEECH – WATCH, RSBN – BACKUP, READ
- At an address to the nation in Phoenix, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would suspend his campaign and pledge his endorsement behind former President Donald Trump.
August 23, 2024 – Kennedy addresses the nation – WATCH, ABC: Robert F Kennedy Jr suspends US presidential campaign and backs Donald Trump – READ
- At 70 years old “Independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced he will suspend his election campaign and throw his support behind Republican candidate Donald Trump.”
- Kennedy filed paperwork to remove his name from the ballot in 10 battleground states, paving the pathway for Trump to win the Presidency. He remained a candidate in other states that were unlikely to sway the outcome of the election – to recoup campaign funding.
- Kennedy “met with Trump and his aides several times and learned they agreed on issues including border security, free speech and ending wars” and to health
August 16, 2024 – Tucker Carlson: Calley & Casey Means (Siblings) – WATCH
- Day 1 – Declare a State of Emergency for Childhood Chronic Disease – Executive Orders (plural) have are already drafted – EXCERPT
- 80% of current NIH grants go to conflicted researchers. 75% of FDA funding comes from Big Pharma, and there is a revolving door for staff – EXCERPT
July 15, 2024 – Gateway Pundit: Trump and RFK Met to Discuss a Potential Role in His Administration, According to New Report – READ
- The meeting occurred Monday in Wisconsin before Trump announced he had chosen J.D. Vance as his running mate.
- “there was some discussion over Bobby playing a future role in the [Trump] administration and what that role might be.” a Kennedy campaign source said
2023
October 10, 2023 – RFK Jr is breaking with the Democrats and his famous family to run for president in 2024. Donald Trump could reap the benefits – to run as an Independent – READ
- Some Kennedy siblings and family members did not support this move – TWEET
April 20, 2023 – CHD | The Defender: RFK Jr. Launches Presidential Campaign, Vows to Reduce Chronic Disease in Children – READ, Reuters: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. expected to announce presidential run – WATCH
- At his campaign launch in Boston, to an overflow crowd he said if he has not “significantly dropped the level of chronic disease in our children by the end of my first term, I do not want you to reelect me.”
- RKF jr runs for President as a challenger to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination
The Kennedy family appear to be pushing for Universal Health Care for many decades now.
Links below – helping to log the connections between Richard nixon and teddy kennedy’s universal health care plans or socialised medicine – for lack of a better place for these links at the moment
2010
March 23, 2010 – “OBAMACARE” is signed into law – WIKI, HHS – READ
- The Affordable Health Care for America Act (or HR 3962) was a bill that was drafted by the United States House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress on October 29, 2009 – WIKI
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and informally as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. – WIKI, HHS – READ
2009
December 31, 2009 – Arkansas Times: Nixon’s plan revived – ARCHIVE, CREDIT
- “The one real chance for a true universal insurance system, he said, passed when the country did not take up Richard Nixon’s offer of an insurance plan that would have covered everyone and stopped the cost spiral. He had worked on the Nixon plan and its failure was one of the great disappointments of his life, he averred.”
- The current health plans “bear absolutely no resemblance to the plan produced for Nixon.” – REF
November 8, 2009 – Independent: House passes sweeping US healthcare overhaul – READ, READ
- New York Times : “Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan that Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement.” –ARCHIVE
- LA Times: House passes healthcare plan : The 220-215 vote marks the first such victory in decades of efforts – READ
- “The overhaul would spark the biggest changes in the $2.5trillion… US healthcare system, which accounts for one sixth of the US economy, since the creation of the Medicare government health program for the elderly in 1965.” – REF
“We can’t afford this bill…It’s a 2,000-page road map to a government takeover of healthcare.”
Republican Representative Roy Blunt.
August 26, 2009 – KFF Health News: A Timeline of Kennedy’s Health Care Achievements And Disappointments – READ
August 25, 2009 – Edward “Teddy” Moore Kennedy dies aged 77 (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) while still a senator – WIKI
- Reluctanly “Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeals by both Clintons not to do so….In return, Kennedy gained a commitment from Obama to make universal health care a top priority of his administration if he were elected ” – REF
2002
November 22, 2002 – Senator Edward “Teddy” Kennedy (D-MA) renews his call for universal health care. – READ, CREDIT ,
- Universal health care plan began with Richard Nixon as a a conservative California congressman in 1947 [REF], then again as President in 1971-1974 – ARCHIVE
1974
August 1974 – WATERGATE – Nixon Resigns ahead of impeachment
April 1974 – Mills began hearings in April 1974 on the Nixon plan (voluntary) and the Mills-Kennedy plan (compulsory). – REF
- Kennedy insisted in 1971 on a single-payer system, Medicare for all, which the United Auto Workers and the AFL-CIO said was the only way to treat American workers fairly.
- But in 1974 Edward Kennedy and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Kensett agreed to work with Nixon and his health and human services secretary, Caspar Weinberger (later Ronald Reagan’s defense secretary), on universal employment-based insurance. They never reached full agreement.
- [No driect relation, as far as I can work out to the Autonomus Weinbergers]
- Kennedy and Mills wanted a compulsory plan, Nixon thought by then that it should be mostly voluntary, but they agreed that employers should pay three-fourths of the premiums and workers a fourth.
- “National health insurance seemed a certainty by the year’s end. Four months later, Nixon resigned ahead of impeachment.” Then two month later Mills get’s caught in a scandal.
- “Kennedy in a few years would regret that he had not seized the chance and reached an agreement around the Nixon plan. Even by 1974 he had given up on the ideal of a single-payer system because the insurance industry was already too powerful and the medical establishment even after Medicare’s fantastic popularity was still resistant.”
January 30, 1974 – President Nixons final State of the Union – Richard Nixon proposed a form of “universal health care” – READ, WATCH
- “Turning now to the rest of the agenda for 1974, the time is at hand this year to bring comprehensive, high quality health care within the reach of every American. I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses. This will be a plan that maintains the high standards of quality in America’s health care. And it will not require additional taxes.”
- …Richard Nixon’s … “plan would have provided government subsidies to the self-employed and small businesses, and build on existing employer-sponsored insurance plans… [at the time] It was difficult for Democrats to concede that the anti-communist Nixon had become a supporter of “socialized medicine“. – REF
- Teddy Kennedy declared that the plan was designed to benefit the insurance companies; however, the reality was that the insurance companies were in for more regulation. “- REF
1965
1965 – US creates Medicare – the governments health program for the elderly – REF
1947
1947 – Richard Nixon as a a conservative California congressman first mentions a universal-like health care plan – REF
- “Nixon’s personal history of poverty and family illness. (He lost two brothers to tuberculosis, the illnesses dealing a heavy blow to the family finances, and in fact proposed a national health insurance bill when he arrived in Congress in 1947.” REF
