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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We spend two to three times what Europeans spend for public…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:44

Most of these diseases we just didn't have around in the 1960s. And there are all these perverse incentives that are driving a decline in our health care system so that we have the most expensive. We spend two to three times what Europeans spend for public health per capita. And we have the worst health outcomes in the world. We're literally the sickest population in the world by the metric of chronic disease. (05:44–05:51)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends two to three times more per capita on public health than Europe.

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