Top RFK Jr. adviser quits; workers shoulder health costs

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's three Eastern, noon Pacific, and this is BBN Newsroom. Calley Means, a senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKennedy Jr., resigned from the administration today, less than two weeks before the midterms.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Wall Street Journal reports he blamed others in the administration for giving food companies and special interests too much sway, and he says he will keep working for the MAHA agenda.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the man who fought the snack lobby lost to the snack lobby. Next they'll put cheese powder in the Constitution.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPlausible.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDid you hear that, Vera? Praise.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMeanwhile, KFF says family health coverage through an employer now costs twenty-eight thousand three hundred and three dollars a year, and workers pay an average of seven thousand four hundred seventy-one dollars of it, up nine percent.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe average single deductible is one thousand nine hundred fifty-five dollars, so your first doctor's visit comes with a small mortgage-sized hug.