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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The system itself is designed to keep you sick.”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 05:36

People have an economic incentive to make sure you don't get well. And that's not saying people who work in these, in as caregivers don't want you to be well. Of course they do. The system itself is designed to keep you sick. Every time you relapse, the rehab makes more money and the costs go up. And the insurance companies, you know, you think the insurance companies are going to lose money … (05:36–05:39)

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Asserts that the current healthcare system is structured to maintain illness rather than cure it.

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