Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Right now, nobody is in that position of accountability.
We need to make them the CEO of their own health so that they have responsibility and they're going to pay the cost if they get sick.
Government pays, but they then decide how to allocate that money.
And then we need to make the system transparent.
And that's one of the things that we're doing.
During his first term, Trump
passed a transparency bill, but because Trump had passed, everybody wanted transparency.
If you're a woman, you're pregnant, you want to know how much it's going to cost you to have that baby.
There's no way you can find that out for most of them.
You can go nine months on a phone every day, how much it's going to cost, and you'll never get a straight answer.
And so, you know, in New York,
For example, what we're doing now is we're going to make all of the hospitals and all the providers post a menu of their prices that are available to everybody and that are available on a website that we're creating.
So if you want an MRI...
And there's 40 places around your home that offer MRIs.
You can't right now figure out what they cost.
Now you're going to be able to go and look at them all on a single page and figure out what the cheapest one is.
If you go to a restaurant, the price are on the menu.
If you go to buy a car.
And the guy said to you, you can buy the car, but I'm not going to tell you how much it costs until after you bought by it.
Nobody would operate that way, but that's how our medical system operates.