Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary, defended President Donald Trump‘s new surgeon general nominee Casey Means, stating she left traditional medicine “because she was not curing patients.” Means, a Stanford Medical School graduate aligned with Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, lacks a completed residency and active medical license.
Speaking Thursday on Fox News’s “Special Report,” Kennedy said Means grew frustrated by mainstream medicine’s neglect of nutrition and preventive care. “She said, ‘If we’re really going to heal people… we can’t just be making our life about billing new procedures,’” he told host Bret Baier.
Kennedy emphasized Means would bring a needed shift in public health leadership following the withdrawal of prior nominee Janette Nesheiwat.
Critics, including Kennedy’s former running mate Nicole Shanahan, questioned the pick. Shanahan wrote on X that she was promised the Means siblings wouldn’t be part of HHS and called the appointment “very strange.”
The nomination continues to generate controversy over qualifications and Kennedy’s influence in HHS appointments.
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