U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed just how “out of touch” he is after claiming $40,000 a month for rehab was affordable for Americans.
On Wednesday, RFK Jr. presented the health department’s fiscal 2026 budget to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. During an interaction with California Rep. Josh Harder, the health secretary attempted to defend sweeping cuts to Medicaid, a health insurance program for low- and middle-income households. But Harder pushed back.
Harder told RFK Jr. that the rehab program Kennedy participated in to overcome his heroin addiction would cost Americans $286,000 out of pocket today.
“There are, Congressman, there are many really gold star rehabs that do it for a tiny fraction, like $20,000 to $40,000 a month,” RFK Jr. interrupted to say in an X clip shared by journalist Aaron Rupar Wednesday.
Give it a few more years, and people won’t get what the joke was supposed to be anymore…
The only question is will it be because a banana actually costs $10 or because banana’s died out from pollution after nature was declared “woke”.
The cavendish banana, which most people these days know as a “normal banana”, is already slowly dying out. You may have noticed that normal store-bought bananas do not have any seeds in them. That means the only way they can multiply is through farmers constantly manually removing suckers from their base and replanting those as a new plant, which in turn means all modern cavendish plants are essentially clones of each other. Which in turn means banana plnatations are an even more extreme kind of monoculture than wheat or corn, which makes them absurdly susceptible to fungal infections. Once a fungus develops that specialises in that particular plant, there is no way to stop the process.
It has happened before, in the 1950ies, with the previous “standard banana”, the Gros Michel, and it’s happening again now.