Joe Kennedy III split with uncle RFK Jr. over ‘grave concerns’ about U.S. health

BOSTON — Joe Kennedy III has “great memories” of growing up with his uncle, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But the younger Kennedy’s “grave concerns about the safety and integrity of our health system” have moved him to condemn his uncle’s leadership as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, he said at the STAT Summit in Boston on Thursday. 

Those concerns prompted Kennedy, a former Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, to call on his uncle to resign last month. He elaborated on his thinking in his most extensive comments on his uncle since the elder Kennedy took office.

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