[The Federalist] "America’s national health is not good," opened the Republican senator from Wisconsin, "even though America’s health care system spent $4.5 trillion dollars in 2022, or over $13,000 per person."To put those numbers in perspective, American health care spending was just 5 percent of GDP when John F. Kennedy was president. That number soared to more than 17 percent in 2022, just a year before Kennedy’s nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would launch his own White House run.
"If America fails," Kennedy said at the Monday panel, "the chief reason will be because we let our country get sicker, more depressed, fatter, more infertile at an increasing rate while crippling our national security, bankrupting our national budget with health care costs."
"Every major pillar of the U.S. health care system as a statement of economic fact," Kennedy added, "makes money when Americans get sick."