Secretary Kennedy spoke passionately, as he always does, about the problems with obesity. And just to put some very fine point numbers on this, Obesity itself is responsible for half of all chronic disease and definitely generates more than a quarter of all the money we spend out of CMS to $1.75 trillion that we spend annually. We need to address this tempest of dramatically increasing prices for health care. And you're not going to do it just by throwing money at the problem. (21:07–21:19)
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