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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Obesity is a disease of poverty overwhelmingly.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 13:07

We're going to see a decline in cost, but also more importantly, in the afflictions themselves. There are, this is a. President Trump is the friend of the forgotten American. Obesity is a disease of poverty overwhelmingly. And this drug, these drugs have only been available for people who have wealth. At one point, the majority of prescriptions, the highest concentration of prescriptions in this country as the Upper west side of Manhattan. (13:07–13:13)

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Asserts that obesity predominantly affects impoverished populations.

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