Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is lying to America about vaccines from the nation's highest health office, and Donald Trump is letting him do it. During his Tucker Carlson appearance, the Health and Human Services Secretary falsely claimed that "there's a published article out there now that says that 50% of revenues to most pediatricians come from vaccines." This isn't just wrong—it's a fabrication that contradicts every credible study on vaccine economics.
The truth? Pediatricians lose money on vaccines. A study in Pediatrics found that "most practices lose money" when vaccinating publicly insured children, while private-pay vaccination "results in little or no profit." Vaccines are "the second highest expense for a pediatric practice after employees," causing "nearly 10% of pediatricians to seriously consider no longer providing vaccines because of the economic strain."
Kennedy's 50% revenue claim? Pure fiction. No such published article exists because the premise is absurd. What Kennedy is really doing is recycling a years-old anti-vaccine lie about Blue Cross Blue Shield programs—claims already debunked by the Associated Press, PolitiFact, and every serious fact-checker. The actual program offered modest $400 payments for meeting multiple quality metrics, not massive vaccine bonuses. Total payments were capped at $9,600 per provider across all measures, not the fantasy figures Kennedy's movement invented.
But Kennedy peddles these lies anyway because his anti-vaccine crusade depends on demonizing doctors. When parents believe their pediatrician's recommendations are driven by greed rather than medical evidence, vaccination rates plummet. When vaccination rates plummet, children die from preventable diseases. We've already watched measles outbreaks tear through communities poisoned by Kennedy's brand of medical misinformation.
The hypocrisy is staggering. Kennedy attacks pediatricians over non-existent profits while anti-vaccine grifters get rich selling fear. Pierre Kory made $368,815 from one organization peddling unproven treatments. Paul Marik pulled in $400,000. These figures dwarf the median $89 that pediatricians receive from pharmaceutical companies, yet Kennedy has the audacity to question doctors' motives while protecting an industry built on exploiting parental anxiety.
Kennedy's deception runs deeper than ignorance—it's willful corruption of his office. He has access to the nation's top epidemiologists and vaccine researchers. He knows that pharmaceutical companies make only 2% of their profits from vaccines. He knows that pediatricians "break even or make a small amount of profit" in private practice while "generally losing money" serving publicly insured children. He chooses lies over facts because conspiracy theories serve his ideology.
This raises the most damning question of all: Where is Donald Trump? The President who appointed Kennedy continues to let him spread dangerous medical misinformation from the highest health office in America. Every day Trump allows Kennedy to remain HHS Secretary is another day this administration legitimizes attacks on the medical profession and the vaccines that protect American children.
Trump campaigned on "draining the swamp," yet he's installed someone who spreads debunked conspiracy theories as his top health official. He promised to put America first, yet he's empowering someone whose lies undermine public health and endanger children. If Trump truly cares about American families, he must choose between his loyalty to Kennedy and his responsibility to protect public health.
Kennedy's misinformation isn't a policy difference—it's a public health emergency. Parents who refuse vaccines because they believe Kennedy's lies about greedy doctors put their children at risk. Communities that embrace his anti-vaccine messaging become breeding grounds for preventable diseases. Children who suffer from illnesses that vaccines could have prevented become casualties of his war on medical science.
The evidence is overwhelming, the stakes are life-and-death, and the time for tolerance is over. Kennedy must either produce credible evidence for his claims about pediatrician profits or be removed from office for spreading dangerous misinformation. Trump must decide whether protecting one man's anti-vaccine crusade is worth sacrificing children's health and America's trust in medical professionals.
Every outbreak that spreads through unvaccinated communities, every child who suffers from a preventable disease, every parent who loses trust in their pediatrician because of fabricated greed narratives—these are the fruits of Kennedy's deception and Trump's complicity in allowing it to continue.
America's children deserve better than a Health Secretary who trades in conspiracy theories and a President who enables him. They deserve leaders who base decisions on evidence, not ideology. They deserve protection from preventable diseases, not exposure to them because their government has declared war on the vaccines that save lives.
The choice is clear: Kennedy must go, or Trump owns every consequence of the medical misinformation spreading from his administration's highest health office. There's no middle ground when children's lives hang in the balance.
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