Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, revealed a terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay published Sunday, on the anniversary of her grandfather’s 1965 assassination. She used the moment to call out her cousin, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for policy decisions and budget cuts that threaten the health of those in the United States and beyond.

The Kennedy family has long understood what it means when medicine fails. In August 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy gave birth to a son nearly six weeks early. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy weighed just over four pounds, and his first breaths made clear something was wrong . His tiny chest fluttered and retracted — the effort of a body laboring to breathe. He was rushed to Boston Children’s

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