The confirmation hearings are political theater. RFK Jr will be confirmed because the American public and Trump have made it clear that they want to see a massive change in the NIH, CDC, and FDA.
Hopefully, RFK Jr will delegate running the HHS to a trusted lieutenant so he can focus full time on reforming the FDA and other health agencies. Trump also needs to give RFK Jr the authority to solicit the help of other departments to make long-term reforms... specifically...
1. the Dept of Commerce needs to change drug patent laws. Currently, far too many loopholes exist to allow pharmaceutical companies to extend the patents of their existing drugs.
2. the DOJ to make the CEOs of Big Pharma companies criminally liable for wrongful deaths as a result of withholding information on side effects of their drugs and vaccines or attempting to bias the outcome of studies on such drugs. The days of making a $96 billion profit by selling $100 billion of a drug and then getting a $4 billion fine for lying to the public about its dangerous side effects needs to stop! Companies found to be serial offenders should be delisted from all US stock exchanges.
3. A new whistle-blower law should be passed giving any whistle-blower massive payouts for outing misdeeds by Big Pharma or their colleagues in the FDA, CDC, etc. Whistle-blowers should get at least $10M.