Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for HHS secretary, seemed unfamiliar with the massive insurance program during Thursday’s hearing, mistakenly saying Medicare Part A mainly paid for primary care or physicians.

The HHS Secretary nominee confused Medicare and Medicaid programs, though he would be responsible for them. We break down the difference.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a bipartisan grilling Thursday in his second day of confirmation hearings to be President Donald Trump’s secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services. From vaccine skepticism and transgender medicine to Medicare and healthcare diversity policies,