Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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So you go in, your doctor tells you you need a knee replacement, and then it takes you six months for the insurance company to approve the surgery.
And it was infuriating for people and really devastating and heartbreaking for a lot of them.
And we got the biggest insurance companies representing 80% of the American public all voluntarily agreed to eliminate prior authorization for almost all their procedures.
It's a very small number now.
I think 15% of the procedures still have it.
And those are procedures we want prior authorization because there's a potential for abuse.
For example, with spinal surgeries, a lot of people don't need the surgery anymore.
And Medicaid and Medicare wants to make sure that they actually need that surgery and it's beneficial to them.
But for all the other ones, you will now know at point of care whether or not your insurance.
So you go to your doctor.
He says you need a knee surgery.
Before you leave his office, you'll know whether the insurance company approves it or not.
And that's going to dramatically change the medical experience.
Another thing that we did, again, through convening industry,
We originally got 63 top tech companies together, and we ended up in a final agreement with 405 of them who agreed to stop information blocking.
So your medical records are owned by you, but you can't get access to them a lot of times, most of the time.
The data company won't give them to you.
And so we've got them all to agree to stop doing that.
So by the end of this year, every American will be able to get their medical records on their cell phone.
And that's going to dramatically change the medical experience.