00:00Mr. Secretary, I agree with a lot of my colleagues' statement. I actually had hoped. I didn't support you.
00:06I thought taking on chronic illnesses was going to be important. I've got two kids, as we discussed when you met, that have chronic illnesses.
00:14I'm not sure that the focus on red dye and seed oils are going to fully solve that problem.
00:23Of course they won't.
00:23I would say this. That seems where your emphasis is. I want to go back to just, again, some basic facts.
00:30Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?
00:35I don't know how many died.
00:37You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID?
00:43I don't think anybody knows that because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC, and there were so many perverse incentives.
00:54You don't know the answer of how many Americans died from COVID. This is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
01:02Do you think the vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths?
01:06Again, I would like to see the data and talk about the data.
01:11You have had this job for eight months, and you don't know the data about whether the vaccine saved lives?
01:17And that's the problem, is that they didn't have the data. The data by the Biden administration, absolutely dismal.
01:24So who is politicizing? You're saying the Biden administration politicized all the data?
01:30Go back to what Senator Cantwell just said, go to the Trump Surgeon General.
01:34They fired Dr. Kraut. They fired all the people who questioned the orthodoxy. They fired Dr. Gruber, Dr. Kraut.
01:41So, Chairman, the Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn't know how many Americans died from COVID.
01:47Doesn't know if the vaccine helped prevent any deaths.
01:51And you are sitting as Secretary of Health and Human Services?
01:55How can you be that ignorant?
01:57Like, you know, I remember when we went to the hearing with you.
02:00I asked you about community health centers.
02:02You didn't know what role they play.
02:04I've been visiting community health centers.
02:05I'm glad you got to one.
02:06I think in April.
02:08I tell you what I hear on community health centers, they are terrified.
02:11With all due respect to my good friend, the chairman, of the big awful bill.
02:15Because they are going to lose health care across the board.
02:20They already live in food deserts.
02:23They can't get to a nutritionist because Medicaid doesn't do enough reimbursement.
02:30If you're going to want Americans to get healthier, should they have access to nutritionists?
02:35Should they have access to good science about healthy food?
02:39Absolutely.
02:40Well, then, how is that going to happen with the Medicaid cuts that are taking place?
02:44There are no cuts to Medicaid.
02:46That is an absurd.
02:47There is not a single, some of my Republican colleagues, but there is not a single study
02:52that does not, and I can tell you, I was in Franklin, Virginia a couple days ago.
02:58The rural hospital is going to close.
03:00The hospital system was so afraid they wouldn't even let me have the meeting there.
03:05But that rural hospital is going to close.
03:08And they are looking for where those folks are going to go.
03:11I mean, you're supposed to be doing health care policy, not being the doctor in residence
03:17for all of America.
03:19I hope, I can say, I'm still going to trust my doctor rather than your health advice.
03:24And obviously, Tom Cotton's going to, who knows who he's going to trust.
03:29But
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