Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

We've gone, when I was a kid, the...

The typical pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes over a 40- or 50-year career.

Today, 38% of teens are diabetic or pre-diabetic.

So one out of every three kids who walks through this office door, why isn't anybody noticing this?

The autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 in 1970, and people knew what autism was.

They knew what it looked like in 1970.

They did the biggest epidemiological study in history to answer the question, what is the percentage?

And they came up with 0.8 per 10,000.

Less than one in 10,000.

And today it's one in 31.

In California, it's one in 19.

And one in 12.5 boys.

That's crazy.

And when my uncle was president, you know, I was a 10-year-old boy.

We spend zero on chronic disease, zero.

And today we spend $4.3 trillion a year.

And it's the fastest-growing item in the federal budget.

And it's existential.

We can't sustain it.

And the Republicans and Democrats have been arguing for years about whether we do single-payer Obamacare, this or that.