My reading of the article was aggressive response by single payer healthcare (i.e. NHS) is responsible so that would be almost impossible politically in USA as long as senate exists on top of non scientific medical authorities.
replyThe Senate? He just issued an executive order overriding all science. It's a total farce at this point.
replyThat's true, I was recollecting when we had somewhat ordinary politics in USA and Affordable Care Act passed when Democrats had majority in Senate but making it single payer was stopped by purported Democrat Joe Leiberman.
replyAlso politically impossible is that Congress made it illegal for state/federal health plans (Medicaid for poor folks and Medicaid for old folks) to negotiate prices with drug companies. Which is why it can cost $95k for a Hep C treatment in the US. It is my understanding that NHS negotiated a price around £3k for the same treatment.
replyCare to elaborate?
replyWhat has RFK Jr specifically said for/against HepC?
I think the OP is extrapolating from the rise in measles cases under RFK Jr’s expert leadership
replyLet OP explain xirself.
replyAs you seem to be someone rushing out to defend RFKjr - what are some good things about him? What don’t you like?
replyI have zero idea about who RFK Jr is or what it does, aside from him being the US Secretary of Health, a country of which I am neither a citizen or resident.
replyWell then it is exceptionally weird for you to ask what it said about hepC yeah?
replyHe has repeatedly stated that there are "no safe vaccines."
replyhttps://youtu.be/G4vP4GdHhoA?t=293
> Trump said "vats" of vaccines are pumped into children's bodies.
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5927313/trump-rfk-jr-va...
This makes all children turn purple and explode just like Violet Beauregarde.
Trump just issued an order reducing childhood vaccines, plus there is a Hep C vaccine which is being ignored by the CDC. Never mind the resurgence of many childhood diseases thanks to RFK jr and Trump.
replyI do not know why some people think the current US regime will follow England with all evidence pointing to doing the exact opposite.
Honestly, Mehmet Oz deserves more of the blame here. He and the other people who are fighting to make healthcare expensive and inaccessible create situations where people aren't being diagnosed and cured of Hep C, which leaves them passing the infection to others through sexual contact, sharing needles, etc.
replyRFK Jr. is an anti-vax crackpot, but Hep C isn't vaccine-preventable. On the other hand, we can absolutely blame RFK Jr. for our rising Hep A, B, and D rates.