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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Nobody keeps track of the addict or looks at the success…”

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

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RFK Jr: The U.S. addiction treatment system is broken

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

Rehab would be handled by Medicare, Medicaid, the jobs would be handled by Department of Labor. Nobody is responsible for that addict. And as a result of that, people are. Bureaucracy's just check the box. Nobody keeps track of the addict or looks at the success rate of various interventions. or has an incentive to make the system work. For example, this is the problem throughout medicine. The incentives are misaligned with what we want, which is value based care. (00:58–01:06)

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Asserts that there is no tracking of addicts or intervention success rates.

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