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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Pharmaceutical drugs are the third biggest killer of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 23:33

You know, I, I think what we need to do is to realign our incentives in this country at this point. Pharmaceutical drugs are the third biggest killer of Americans. And so pharma has given us extraordinary inventions and extraordinary medical treatments. But the profit orientation of the industry has sometimes given us also reverse outcomes and outcomes that, you know, we need to do everything that we can to guard against. (23:33–23:37)

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Asserts that pharmaceutical drugs are a leading cause of death in the U.S.

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