Governors from across the country played host to a variety of health conspiracy theories in Colorado Springs on Saturday, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expounded on his “Make America Healthy Again” initiative in a fireside chat.
With Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee moderating, Kennedy repeated a litany of false and misleading claims, including assertions that aluminum in vaccines causes food allergies and that diabetes can be cured through diet, to about a dozen governors gathered together for their National Governors Association summer meeting.
He also suggested the use of AI in telemedicine and said “fee-for-service medicine” gives doctors and insurance companies “the incentive to keep Americans sick.”
One initiative Kennedy elaborated on was the Department of Health and Human Services’ collection of Medicaid data from states with the intention of anonymizing it to create a public database for independent scientists to be able to study. He claimed that “the medical establishment and the government were not able to give good data to people” during COVID, in response to a question from Lee on how to measure the efficacy of federal and state approaches to public health.
As governor of Tennessee, Lee banned mask mandates during the pandemic and “touted Tennessee for being one of the last to close early in the pandemic and among the first to reopen,” according to the AP.
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