Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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I mean the way to change human behavior is one, get information out there that's real information.
The other thing that you have to do is you have to change the economic incentives.
And right now we have perverse incentives that โ
reimburse doctors that, you know, that insurers, pharmaceutical companies, the doctors, the hospitals are making more money if you're sick.
With drug rehabs, if you come back, if you relapse, they make more money.
They shouldn't be paid that way.
The insurance company should pay them one lump sum and then follow that addict for the next two years.
And every time he comes back, you've got to treat him for free.
And that will incentivize them to do better treatment.
Yeah, to do treatment that works.
And the ones that can't do that will fail.
And the ones that can do it, that get better and better at it, will do it.
You change the economic incentives, you'll change human behavior.
And then you have to get the information to the individual.
And that's what we're doing.
We're doing, we've met, we've convened the 400 top tech companies before this administration.
You could not get your own health records.
So you own your health records, but you couldn't see them.
You can't get a hold of them.