RFK Jr. Is Open To Seizing Drug Patents

RFK is a broken clock and progressives should shun him

Politico reports:

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. expressed openness to adopting a key progressive proposal for lowering drug prices during a closed-door meeting with Senate Finance Committee staffers, according to three people familiar with the exchange, who were granted anonymity to speak freely about private discussions.

President DONALD TRUMP’s health secretary nominee last week indicated he’d consider authorizing the government to seize the patents of high-priced medicines from manufacturers and share them with other drug makers as a way to force down costs, said the three people.

The approach — long supported by progressive Democrats and only tentatively by former President JOE BIDEN — would use executive authorities to take certain drug patents developed using taxpayer money and license them to other manufacturers that might make and sell them for less. Advocates for the policy say it would allow new levels of competition for some of the most expensive prescription drugs, which are now protected by patents.

This is all well and good… RFK is still RFK, with all of his baggage and with all of his noxious beliefs.

It’s been terrible to watch some progressives warming up to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. because some of his policy proposals align with theirs. Progressives, it seems, have caught the “lesser of two evils” triangulation bug that Democrats have long suffered from. Some principles should never be compromised. RFK being on the right side of something is STILL the wrong person to be on the right side of anything. Would you trust him, given all his other views and behaviors?

Some things RFK believes:

• COVID targets Blacks and caucasians while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are immune

• Thinks vaccines are unsafe

• Thinks GLP-1 drugs are bad and obesity is best addressed through diet

• Has stated ultra-processed food is driving the obesity epidemic, some cancers, and mental health conditions

• Makes false claims on fluoride in drinking water

It is already bad enough that Trump has been undoing* the most important functions at all government agencies EVEN BEFORE his cabinet secretaries are confirmed and in place so that the dirty work will have been done before their arrival.

When it comes to healthcare, Dr. Jeremy Faust’s article in MedPageToday runs through all of the things that have already been done to our healthcare system since January 6, 2025.

For some reason, an awful lot of Democrats, when faced with a big loss, end up moving further to the right as a remedy for what they believe voters punished them for. I’ve been asking what it will take for them to arrive at the right conclusions after a defeat since 2016. If MAGA is extreme right, what does that make center right, at this point in time? The defeats in the last 9 years have only gotten more and more resounding.

What’s more, there aren’t any prominent Democrats who are taking the lead in opposing what is being done. Sure, we see some commenting on cable, but no one in particular is spearheading the opposition on any given topic, when absolutely everything is now under attack.

There have been reports that Sheldon Whitehouse, a friend of RFK, will vote in favor of his confirmation. It has also been said that John Fetterman is open to voting for RFK and Bernie Sanders is willing to hear him out.

Dead bear and dolphin meat jokes aside, RKF, Jr. is a clear and present danger to every single American citizen. After all, he is responsible for actual deaths in American Samoa.

RFK has been around long enough for every baby to know what he is about. We should not be hearing about Democrats considering giving him or any other Trump nominee a vote.

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