We spend a lifetime pulling people out of the river. No one goes upstream and prevent them from falling in in the first place. And we have a downstream mindset in government. We allocate billions of dollars on actions that we would have had pennies on the dollar if we would have only gone upstream. And so our administration is an upstream administration. We're doing dyslexia screening. We're investing in foster care children. We do preventive lifestyle medicine in our hospital, so we don't feed chronic diseases. (06:54–07:06)
CLAIM
Asserts that the government spends billions on reactive measures instead of preventive ones.
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