RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks
I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head.
"My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years."
RFK Jr., our current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said this at a congressional hearing at the end of June. Wearables, he said, are key to the MAHA - Make America Healthy Again - agenda. Kennedy positioned wearables for Americans as a means of "taking control" or "taking responsibility" over their health by monitoring how their lifestyle impacts their metrics. In the hearing, he also cited that his friends had shed pounds and "lost their diabetes diagnosis" thanks to devices like con …