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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The STREETS program, for example, well, it's based partially…”

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

HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative

Published February 2, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:51

Yeah, I mean we need to integrate services. And that's, you know, the Great American Recovery act is an effort to begin that. Yes. Transition. Yes. The STREETS program, for example, well, it's based partially on the program that was modeled in the Netherlands. We go out, we bring together law enforcement, we bring together mental health, we bring together counselors, we bring together housing and we intervene early. (07:51–07:59)

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“It costs about $92 billion here in direct costs, 890 billion a year in indirect costs and lost productivity.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 00:50-01:00
“We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 02:33-02:37
“We pay the highest cost, two to three times what Europeans pay for health care.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 02:37-02:43
“We've lost six years to Europe in terms of our lifespan over the past two decades.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 02:44-02:51
“We've got the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world.”
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“We've got the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.”
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“Colorectal cancer has grown by 500% [among children aged 10 to 14] in the last decade.”
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“The highest cause of death, overdose, is in Americans under 45 years old.”
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“We have the worst health outcomes in the history of the world.”
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“The system itself is designed to keep you sick.”
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“Ultimately what we have to do at HHS over the next three years, do everything we can switch the model at CMMI and CMS and HRSA and SAMHSA…”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 06:19-06:37
“The Great American Recovery act is an effort to begin [integrating services].”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 07:44-07:49
“The streets program begins with $100 million program that's going to be distributed to eight pilot programs, regional pilot programs.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 09:01-09:11
“It builds on a $45 million program that we gave this year for sober housing.”
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“I'm working with Scott Turner at HUD to revolutionize sober housing.”
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“Faith based initiatives work and that's, you know, they are scientifically proven to work.”
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“We're trying to do [integrated care and outcome-based care] across CMS.”
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“We know the kids who are going to become addicts, it's pretty easy to identify them early in life.”
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“We need to start doing the interventions then when there's still neuroplasticity in their brains.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 24:45-24:52
“One of the aspirations of the STREETS program [is] to find people as early as possible.”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative | Uploaded February 2, 2026 | 25:10-25:16
“We're taking a number of other steps to make sure to identify kids in foster care who need help.”
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“I'm hoping we've at least by then gotten a series of models around the country and states and cities of things that work.”
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“We know how to bring the insurance companies in, we know how to do early intervention.”
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“We've developed ways of following the addict for several years and having somebody take ownership of that addict.”
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“If I pay you as a rehab, I'm not going to pay you a daily rate so that the guy relapses in two months and you get paid again.”
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“When you align the economic incentives with the health care outcomes that we're looking for, behavior will change.”
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“That misalignment [of economic incentives] is pervasive throughout the health care system in this country.”
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“It's why we're paying so much for health care, because people are not getting paid to make patients well.”
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“The easiest way to change behavior is to rationalize the financial incentives.”
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“Companies that don't [realign incentives] are going to go out of business.”
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“It's absolutely critical that we [realign incentives] so we all have our thinking caps on every day about how do we do that.”
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