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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We're paying 63 million kids or the poorest kids who get…”

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

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told

Published | Video Starts at 54:09

If you want to drink a soda, you should be able to. We live in the United States. You should have this freedom of choice. But the federal taxpayers should not be paying for it because We're paying 63 million kids or the poorest kids who get food stamps and those kids then drink that Coke, they get diabetes and 78% of them end up on Medicaid. So we're paying to make them sick and then we're paying for their lifetime treatment. And it's not a good system. (54:09–54:24)

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Asserts that 78% of kids who drink soda and get diabetes end up on Medicaid.

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