RFK Jr. Fuels Uncertainty on Policies From Medicare to Abortion

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s selection to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s top health official is prompting questions from policy watchers over how the pick will handle the range of key health policies that would fall under his purview.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and leading vaccine skeptic, has been vocal on his positions against food additives and immunization recommendations. But the nominee for secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services has been relatively quiet on many of the other issues he would oversee while leading 13 supporting agencies and more than 80,000 federal employees.

The pick’s position ...