To understand where our nation’s health policy currently stands, and where it is headed, one event enlightens our thinking: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent speech before the World Health Assembly, in which he outlined in stark detail the specific reasons why the United States has left the World Health Organization.
On many levels, the global body has lost credibility—revealing its corrupt ties to the Chinese Communist Party and reckless manipulation from the strong arm of pharmaceutical companies. Kennedy was right to charge that the political interests of the WHO have become more important than the health security of nations around the globe.
Let’s go deeper on the overwhelming influence of the Chinese government regarding the WHO. The global COVID-19 pandemic was a prime opportunity for the WHO to step forward and assert…