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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We are reducing the cost. We're going to reduce the cost.”

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

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Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary

Published | Video Starts at 25:44

Looking at a regulatory framework for making it available to people under insurance, it will be available to anybody who wants to pay for it. We are reducing the cost. We're going to reduce the cost. Will Medicaid and Medicare cover it? They won't. Let me finish. In telling you what our blueprint is, ideally, over the long term, we'd like to see that those drugs available are people after they try other interventions. (25:44–25:47)

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Asserts that efforts are underway to reduce the cost of certain drugs.

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