Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “90% of health care spending goes toward treating chronic…”

“To understand why these announcements matter, consider the scale of the problem we face today. 90% of health care spending goes toward treating chronic disease. We calculated recently that if you include the VA and the Pentagon and the Social Security office and my agency, we spend today about 48 cents out of every federal …” (29:10–29:17)

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