Is there a reason patients should have to fail first on another medication? And what is HHS doing to prevent insurers and their PBMs from acquiring these types of unnecessary and often harmful outcomes? Well, I convened the insurance companies, the biggest ones that represent 80% of American lives, three months into my office and I got them all agreed to end prior authorization and 87% or 80% of the, of the procedures and conditions and prescriptions by 2027. So I think we may see an improvement. But as you know, it is a rapacious industry and they have people who don't have medical degrees making decisions that are life and death for patients. (03:55–04:23)
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