Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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It actually makes more money if more people are sick.
The hospitals.
Well, I mean, think of it this way.
If you're Lloyd's of London, do you want one ship?
And you're insuring all the ships in the ocean.
Do you want one ship to sink a year or do you want a thousand to sink?
If a thousand sink, everybody's going to be paying you premiums to insure themselves against that eventuality.
And you're making money on the friction.
So you're making the money that comes into this.
You're making your money on the money that comes to the system.
So the more that you pump up that volume of money, the more you make.
So, you know, nobody is interested.
Nobody is economically incentivized to make people well.
And we are not going to get well until we align those economic incentives with the health outcomes that we want, which is nobody gets sick.
We end the chronic disease epidemic.
And that's what we're doing now.
We're trying to realign all those perverse incentives.
For example, the medical system pays out
on fee-based service.
That means at the more tests the doctor orders for you, the more drugs he prescribes you, the more contact he has with you, the richer he gets.