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00:00And a healthy person has a thousand dreams. The sick person only has one. And right now there's 60% of the people in this country who have only one dream. They can make it through a day without pain, without with energy, without having to take medications.
00:20The goal is to make America healthy again. Let's bring in our guest, Dr. Marty McCary, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Thank you all for being here. Mr. Secretary, this is unique in that you work with all these guys very closely. And it's a different scenario for HHS.
00:46Yeah, I actually had Tommy Thompson in this morning talking to me. It was the HHS who had my job under the Bush administration. And I was talking about my relationship with these gentlemen who are running the agency, running the major sub-agencies of HHS. And he said that nothing like that had ever happened in history.
01:07I say that I talk to them typically about two or three times a day. We're friends. We go to lunch together. We stay at each other's homes. We vacation together.
01:21And then, you know, we're aligned in our vision. Friendship is based upon shared values. And that's the strongest bond that holds people together.
01:32And in this, we all share a vision that's been a lifelong vision for all of us, which is to make our country healthy, to have evidence-based science, to have gold standard, replicable science, and then use that to challenge what we have, this kind of bedrock system that is destroying our health,
01:55which is a complete misalignment of economic incentives and public health.
02:02Yesterday, we met with the heads of all the pharmaceutical companies. And I said, I want to live in a place where you can make money by making people healthy.
02:13And right now, we're all aligned against each other. The health care system in this country is a bundle of perverse incentives that force people to do the wrong thing.
02:26And we've turned this country into a sick care system rather than a health care system. And all these people are the people who are going to change that.
02:33I know you all have a lot of balls in the air, but I'd love to go down the row and just talk about the big thing that each of you are dealing with, working on. First, FDA. Marty?
02:42Well, first of all, we want to focus the agency on cures and meaningful treatments.
02:49In the last administration, the number one priority the commissioner stated was fighting misinformation, and the DEI staff ballooned out.
02:56We want to focus on cures and meaningful treatments. We believe in the letter and the spirit of Right to Try.
03:01And there's amazing stuff in the pipeline I've seen. We're talking about new treatments for stage four cancers,
03:07for neurodegenerative disorders, for diabetes that we've never seen before.
03:13Why does it take 10 years on average for drugs to come to market?
03:17Why are we blaming children for being sick and not looking at our food supply?
03:21Why are we thinking it's a willpower problem as we watch half of our nation's children with belly pain or attention deficit disorder on medications?
03:28And can we use common sense and gold standard science both?
03:33And that's the charge that we have from Secretary Kennedy.
03:36You've also obviously done the dyes recently, and we covered that extensively.
03:41There's this question about vapes coming over from China and that they're really pervasive in our country,
03:48and kids with, like, video games and getting vapes, and they're dangerous.
03:52That falls under FDA.
03:53Yeah, it does. These are devices that are designed to get kids addicted to playing a video game,
03:58and there's an inhalation port in the device.
04:01They're showing up at our borders, and what we have been doing is just sending them back.
04:06And so the Chinese manufacturers are just sending it to another port.
04:09It's called port shopping, and they all get in.
04:13They're laughing at us.
04:14So that's going to stop in this administration.
04:17We're not going to allow these devices to get in.
04:18We're going to confiscate them.
04:20Mehmet, there's a lot of focus on Medicaid and Medicare, and it gets demagogued all the time,
04:26that you're coming after it, that you're going to kill it, that you're going to cut it.
04:30What do you say to all that?
04:31Our goal is to put health back in health and human services.
04:34And under Secretary Kennedy, and that's why we're all here,
04:37we're laser-focused on the broader picture, the more holistic picture.
04:40In the back of this wonderful theater that we're recording in now,
04:43there's a quote from Hubert Humphrey.
04:45The building's named after him.
04:46He's a Democrat, and he said it's the moral obligation of government to take care of those
04:52of us at the very dawn of our lives, children, at the twilight of our life, the elderly,
04:57and those living in the shadows.
04:59That's our focus.
05:01It's quality of care at all levels, and we're working together to make sure that happens.
05:05In every single scenario that we're looking at, we're increasing payment in Medicaid,
05:10putting more money in the Medicaid.
05:12Increasing.
05:12Increasing.
05:13So the question is, how do you spend that money so efficiently that you stop throwing money at
05:17problems but actually deal with the broader health needs?
05:20Addressing the fundamental reality that 70% of the money that CMS spends, and that's what
05:26Medicare, Medicaid, the exchanges, CHIP, 70% of the money we spend is on chronic illness,
05:32and we're not getting our money's worth.
05:33So for folks listening right now, it's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can,
05:37and it's our job to help you get there, make it easy to do the right things.
05:41At the same time, we've got to make wise decisions, because we're stewards who have to protect
05:47the money for the population that Hubert Humphrey described.
05:49Fiscal year 2024, largest percentage of improper payments, $54 billion in Medicare, $31 billion
05:56Medicaid.
05:58Earned in time tax credit was $15 billion, SNAP was $10.5 billion.
06:01But I mean, you're looking at $84 million or $5 million in improper payments?
06:06Billion.
06:06Billion.
06:07That's an underestimate.
06:08Here's the thing.
06:09We have a war room now, a war room, to fight back against adversaries.
06:13And these aren't just small-time players.
06:15These are foreign governments, weaponized, organized crime.
06:18And why are they coming after us?
06:20Because our budget is nearly $2 trillion, if you include the monies that are spent that
06:25we direct but sometimes don't come out of our pocketbooks.
06:27But the direct budget just for CMS is $1.75 trillion.
06:31That's twice the defense budget.
06:33So there's a big target on our back, and folks are coming after it.
06:36And there are the kinds of things that should make you mad.
06:39It's USAID on steroids, frankly.
06:41I'll give you a couple examples.
06:43Almost a quarter of a million Americans found out by surprise, because they got an IRS notice,
06:48that they had gotten the Affordable Care Act insurance without knowing it.
06:52Why would you sign someone up without telling them they have insurance?
06:55Because brokers can steal the money.
06:57We have hundreds of millions of dollars spent on housekeeping.
07:01We have tens of millions of dollars spent on public unions getting free child care or
07:06student tuition or DEI programs.
07:09I have an obligation, all of us do, to protect the people that Humphrey was speaking about.
07:14And if we're not going to protect the most vulnerable, that's who they're stealing money
07:16from, then we're not doing our job.
07:18So we're going after, there's a new sheriff in town, and we're coming after folks in a very
07:22big way.
07:23NIH, always looking to the next thing.
07:26But there are people concerned that funding is drying up.
07:29In the president's budget, FDA is spared, but there's $33.3 billion cut from HHS, $18
07:37billion from NIH, $674 million from CMS.
07:41Does that affect you, and how do you portray that about what NIH is doing?
07:46I think the key fact I look at for NIH is that the mission of the NIH is supposed to do research
07:54that improves the health and longevity of the American people.
07:56And since 2012, we've seen no increase in life expectancy in this country.
08:00In that sense, the NIH has not done its mission over the last dozen years.
08:06And in fact, NIH was involved in supporting research that may have actually led to the
08:12pandemic that we all just went through.
08:15We'll speak to that for a second.
08:16Gain of function.
08:17Just signed this executive order the other day in the Oval Office.
08:20What does that mean to the average person?
08:22You can stop it on the U.S. side, but obviously it's happening around the world.
08:27The U.S. is the primary state that sets the example for how to do this kind of work around
08:32the world when the U.S. says, look, we're not going to allow scientists to play God,
08:39take viruses with cockamamie justifications, make them more transmissible, more deadly.
08:45That doesn't protect us against anybody, and it causes tremendous risk.
08:50And what the president did by signing this order is he said, no more.
08:53We're not going to have another lab-generated pandemic on my watch.
08:59The Surgeon General nominee, there was supposed to be a hearing today on Capitol Hill.
09:03Dr. Neshwat was pulled.
09:04She's heading here to the HHS.
09:07What happened with all that?
09:09What happened with her withdrawal?
09:12We talked to Dr. Neshwat.
09:15She is going to, we're going to put her at a very good place here at HHS.
09:20Casey Means, we felt, was the best person to really bring the vision of Maha to the American public.
09:29She has this unique capacity to articulate it.
09:32She's written a book that really mobilized, galvanized the movement.
09:37She is an extraordinary, she is excellence in everything that she's ever endured.
09:44Obviously, she's come under her own criticism about some of the things she's advocated for.
09:49She never finished her residency, and she doesn't currently have an active medical license.
09:53But that's not...
09:54She was the top of her, the very top of her medical class at Stanford.
09:59She is, and every, during her residency, she won every award that she could win.
10:04She walked away from traditional medicine because she was not curing patients.
10:08She couldn't get anybody within her profession to look at the nutrition contributions to illness.
10:16And she said, if we're really going to heal people, if we're healers, we can't just be making our life about billing new procedures.
10:24We actually have to figure out new approaches to medicine, and that's the kind of leadership that she's going to bring to our country.
10:31And last thing on this, your former running mate weighed in today saying that she wasn't happy about this and said that you're somehow being controlled.
10:39Your decisions are being controlled.
10:41That's what she posted.
10:42Listen, you guys sitting here, four people who were all canceled during COVID.
10:47Yeah, that's right.
10:48Of these people, you've got the entire leadership of this agency is renegades who are juggernauts against convention
10:59and who are trying to look for truth no matter what the cost.
11:02So nobody's controlling your decisions among those.
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