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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We've gotten 80% of the insurance companies now to agree to…”

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

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FULL SPEECH: Fireside Chat with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at CPAC 2026 - 03/28/26

Published | Video Starts at 09:08

If there's no market and you don't give consumers an ability to shop, this is also going to dramatically lower the cost of medicine. We've gotten 80% of the insurance companies now to agree to eliminate prior authorization in most of their, almost all of their, of their procedures. Oh, you will know. And this is one of the most frustrating things. If you're a patient, you go to the hospital. (09:08–09:21)

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