‘Bigger than politics’: Former surgeons general warn of instability at HHS

A bipartisan group of former U.S. surgeons general expressed significant concern in HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership in a joint op-ed published Oct. 7 in The Washington Post. The former surgeons general — who collectively served under every president since George H.W. Bush — claim Mr. Kennedy’s actions and policies are undermining public health, eroding trust in science and damaging the nation’s health institutions. 

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this,” they wrote. “But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” The physician leaders argue that Mr. Kennedy has replaced evidence-based decision-making with misinformation, destabilizing the U.S. public health