Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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It's all about throwing money.
Who gets to keep the money that we're throwing at a system that's completely broken?
It's not a healthcare system.
It's like changing deck chairs on the Titanic.
Why is nobody focusing on how do we get people healthy?
Because that's how you solve the health care cost problem.
Right now, 40 cents out of every dollar that you spend in federal taxes is going to health care.
And about 90 percent of that is chronic disease.
So, you know, it's clear.
And Americans don't want to be sick.
They're being made sick.
The obesity rates have gone from 5% in kids when I was a kid to now close to 20%.
And in adults, 70% of adults are obese or overweight.
That was not true when we were kids.
And it's not because Americans got indolent or lazy or hungry.
It's because they were being mass poisoned.
You know, the vested interests that are making money on keeping โ everybody makes money on keeping us sick.
The food companies make money on getting us sick.
But pharma makes money on keeping us sick.
The insurance โ you would think insurance would want to keep you well, but it doesn't.