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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Everybody has an incentive to keep that addict sick.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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FULL SPEECH: Fireside Chat with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at CPAC 2026 - 03/28/26

Published | Video Starts at 14:32

So nobody's responsible for that attic. Everybody is just checking boxes. And like the rest of the medical system, Everybody has an incentive to keep that addict sick. If you're rehab, you get paid for 28 days. If that addict goes out and drinks or drugs again, you get another bite at the apple. (14:32–14:36)

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Asserts that the current system financially incentivizes keeping addicts in a cycle of relapse.

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