The Debate Question CNN and John Stossel Should Have Asked — But Didn’t
Last week’s presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump left Americans with more questions than answers about the candidates’ views on some of the issues that matter most to Children’s Health Defense and the health freedom movement — most notably on the health status of our nation’s children.
Last week’s presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump left Americans with more questions than answers about the candidates’ views on some of the issues that matter most to Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and the health freedom movement — most notably on the health status of our nation’s children.
Although CNN’s debate moderators asked no questions on this topic, both candidates on the CNN debate stage had ample opportunity to draw attention to the sobering fact that over 54% of children in the U.S. have at least one chronic health condition.
Yet neither candidate did — even though rates of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), deadly allergies, depression, obesity, cancer and more have risen precipitously among children in recent decades, and these chronic health conditions have severely affected education, Medicaid and other government budgets.
The only candidate who has consistently and resolutely pursued answers on behalf of America’s children spoke on a different stage last week.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent presidential candidate and CHD chairman on leave — excluded from the official debate — answered each question posed to Trump and Biden in a separate forum held in Los Angeles, moderated by veteran journalist John Stossel.
Although Stossel also didn’t ask questions about children’s health, Kennedy nonetheless volunteered information about the enormous long-term economic and societal impacts of continuing to sweep the rising rates of chronic disease under the rug.
Ideally, future debates will include questions about childhood health epidemics. But effective leadership demands diving into territory where others fear to tread — without waiting for prompts from mainstream media.
Until people in a position to make the public aware of this chronic health crisis do so, solutions will continue to elude us, much to the detriment of our children.
I challenge President Biden, former President Trump and presidential candidate Kennedy to lead the way in securing a healthy future for the generations to follow.
CHD calls on America’s leaders to deal with the childhood epidemics head-on and work tirelessly for answers on behalf of our nation’s most precious resource, its children — whether or not mainstream media ever asks the right questions.
Children’s Health Defense on occasion posts content related to our nonprofit mission that features Mr. Kennedy’s views on the issues CHD regularly covers. In keeping with Federal Election Commission rules, this content does not represent an endorsement of Mr. Kennedy, who is on leave from CHD and is running as an independent for president of the U.S.
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