RFK JR encourages Americans to use ‘portable’ technology to track their health
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The United States Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Tuesday that it is his vision “that each American carries a laptop in four years.”
He made the comments on devices such as smart watches, smart rings and physical conditioning trackers to the members of Congress, adding that the Department of Human Health and Services (HHS) is “about to launch one of the greatest advertising campaigns in the history of HHS to encourage Americans to use portable devices.”
Kennedy said during an audience to the Energy Committee and the trade of the House of Representatives on the health that wearables are a way in which “people can take control of their own health.”
“You can see, as you know, what food is doing at your glucose levels, your heart frequencies and a series of other metrics as they eat it,” he told members of Congress. “And they can start making good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way their lives live.”
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Apple Watch is seen in a store in Krakow, Poland, on April 20, 2024. (Akub Porzycki/Nurphoto)
The Secretary of Health said that he has had friends who “have completely changed their lives just by using a glucose meter”, which have lost weight while monitoring their diabetes.
The actions of the manufacturers of continuous glucose monitoring devices ABBOTT and Dexcom increased 3.6% and 10%, respectively, in the afternoon trade, Reuters reported.
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In this photographic illustration, a diabetes monitoring device in London in February 2025 is shown. (Peter Dazeley)
Although Ozempic diabetes medicine has been critical of diabetes, which is often used for weight loss, has expressed support for the prescription of such medicines for adult weight loss with morbid obesity and diabetes, provided they are accompanied.
“You know that Ozempic costs $ 1300 per month, if you can achieve the same with a $ 80 laptop, it is much better for the American people,” Kennedy said, adding: “We are exploring ways to ensure that these costs can be paid.”
The secretary of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies during the Energy and Commerce Energy Subcommittee of the House of Representatives in Health Hearing entitled “The budget of the Department of Health and Human Services of the fiscal year2026”, in the Rayburn building on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, INC)
JP Morgan analyst Robbie Marcus commented: “We believe it is premature to interpret this as a direct comment about whether Medicare and other commercial payers will move to cover patients with non -intensive type II diabetes or other areas of proactive monitoring.”
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Kennedy has long promoted healthy eating on medicine as a way to combat obesity, and has been a prominent skeptic of vaccine safety.
He added, both in person and in X, that the next campaign of portable devices is “a key part of our mission of making the United States again healthy.”
Reuters contributed to this report.