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During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about preauthorization for insurance claims.
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00:00I'll talk just very briefly. We have an historic agreement on pre-authorization.
00:06We brought together 80% of the insurance industry, which has agreed to, for 80% of diseases and injuries,
00:15give immediate pre-authorization so that when you go to your doctor's office and he prescribes you a new knee or whatever it is,
00:23you will immediately know whether your insurance company is going to pay for it.
00:27This is an historic agreement. People have been trying to do it for decades.
00:31And we, because of your leadership, brought the insurance industry together and got them to voluntarily agree to do this.
00:38Similarly, we've made another historic agreement with personal health records.
00:45The 60 biggest tech companies in our country have all agreed to allow Americans for the first time access to their personal data,
00:53which they own, which these companies have been monetizing without permission.
00:58You're going to be able to see by next year all of your health records on your cell phone.
01:02It's going to save lives. It is going to fuel an infusion of technology into that space where people can access those records.
01:10They can compare their diet to what they personally need.
01:13And we'll have personalized medicine.
01:17We are doing price transparency.
01:20You passed this during your first term, and then the Biden administration refused to enforce it.
01:26We've now brought at HHS, under your leadership and my leadership, more enforcement actions than during the entire four years of the Biden administration.
01:35So we're going to have that kind of price transparency.
01:38I'm working with Linda on forcing medical schools.
01:44And the MCATs, the people who administer the MCATs, the people who do accreditations, have put nutrition into medical school education.
01:53Right now, 25% of the doctors in this country do not feel competent to give nutritional advice.
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