RFK wants to restrict weight-loss drugs like Ozempic...
says they will not 'Make America Healthy Again' READ MORE: What could Kennedy mean for the US food system? By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 22:32 GMT, 18 November 2024 | Updated: 22:38 GMT, 18 November 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Robert F. Kennedy Junior wants to scale back the nation's reliance on Ozempic, claiming Americans hooked on the drug are 'stupid' and 'addicted.
' Estimates suggest more than 9million prescriptions for Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs are written every year in the US — one of the world's fattest nations. But Mr Kennedy says the money used on the drugs — up to $1,600 per month — would be better suited for supplying balanced and healthy meals to families. The Health and Human Services secretary nominee told the late night show Gutfeld! last month: 'We are spending $1.
6k a month on this drug. There is a bill right now before Congress that will make it available to everybody who is overweight..
. that alone will cost $3trillion a year. 'If we spend about one fifth of that giving good food, three meals a day, to every man, woman and child in our country, we could solve the obesity and diabetes epidemic overnight.
' Mr Kennedy, a famed vaccine skeptic who claims WiFi causes cancer and AIDS is not caused by HIV , also said Americans were being taken advantage of by drug companies and claimed Ozempic is not recommended in the country where it was invented, whic.
