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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The rural hospitals are very, very badly over regulated and…”

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

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President Trump has passed an executive, signed an executive order that requires when we at HHS or the other federal agencies want to adopt a new regulation. We first have to get rid of 10 existing regulations. The rural hospitals are very, very badly over regulated and it's one of the reasons they have very high costs. We've encouraged the people in this room provide us regulations that are impediments to them providing good care to their patients and we will do everything we can to get … (13:26–13:33)

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Asserts that overregulation is a significant factor in high costs for rural hospitals.

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