April 12, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| The strategy really revolves around a movement, MAHA and MAGA, not taking a break now that we've won. | |
| We are in a place where historically the American electorate will get really up in arms, win a political battle like we did winning when President Trump got into office, and then they go away for the next 18 months. | |
| They gear back up for the midterms. | |
| They gear back up for the next presidential cycle. | |
| We have not won. | |
| We have not won this fight. | |
| We've begun the fight and we have industry forces, which I would say unlimited money, that are going to try to do everything to protect their bottom line but also limit good... | |
| Policy ideas of a Secretary Kennedy and a President Trump. | |
| And when you have that, you need your rural health mom to your Santa Barbara mom who are politically aligned around MAHA issues and put them in the right direction to hold government accountable, | |
| no matter who's in office. | |
| And we saw that with what IMA did during the Kennedy confirmation. | |
| That was a close call. | |
| We really had to use organizations like the Independent Medical Alliance to do advocacy in states like Louisiana and Senator Cassidy to make sure they realize that this is what the population and the American citizen wants. | |
| They want a change to the status quo around health, and they want to have better health outcomes for themselves, for their kids, and for their families. | |
| What's next for the IMA? | |
| So the IMA is positioned now to talk about a number of different topics. | |
| We have a four-pillar strategy that ranges from chronic disease prevention, restoring trust in medicine, provider empowerment, and focusing on changing the culture of health. | |
| Each one of those is going to have a tactical plan to feed good policy into the administration using the incredible clinical and scientific experts that they have aggregated over the last few years. | |
| And so we're going to play offense on providing good health care policy. | |
| And then we're going to provide defense to the administration when they do the right thing and take on the corporate interests that are going to spend incredible amounts of money to make sure that they're not successful. | |
| And what if they do the wrong thing? | |
| I think there's always, as a nonpartisan organization, there's always an opportunity to hold everyone accountable. | |
| And there will be things that there are differences of opinion on no matter who's in charge. | |
| And so to me, there is the Soft power, right? | |
| We're going to go foreign policy, but with soft power when it comes to the movement cares about these topics. | |
| You would be best to continue to move this in that direction. | |
| To the hard power, which is, hey, we don't agree with what you're trying to accomplish here. | |
| How do we get to a better outcome? | |
| Because we have these... | |
| This movement of folks that deeply cares about these topics, they want to say because they're part of the reason that you're in this position to begin with. | |
| And so to me, in IMA, while we may generally agree with a lot of what Secretary Kennedy and President Trump are doing, also has the ability to have that conversation if there's some disagreements there in the future. | |
| The reason I mention this, of course, is I think you mentioned this. | |
| A lot of different ideas, right? | |
| A lot of different ideas, a lot of opinions about... | |
| And, you know, the policy is very far-reaching, even within this first 60 days, right? | |
| And there's lots of people here. | |
| I mean, I've talked to her saying, hey, why are they doing this? | |
| Why are they not doing that? | |
| Why is this happening? | |
| There is no one better than Secretary Kennedy to push this agenda forward, and we need to show a little bit of grace when things don't happen as soon as we possibly want them. | |
| I say that because having been on the inside, you are up against so many forces to try and accomplish what is going to be precedent-setting. | |
| And never-been-done-before type policy actions. | |
| And so I understand that you have an American public that is very action-reaction oriented. | |
| We won, so why have we not won entirely? | |
| But at the end of the day, Secretary Kennedy and his team are laying the groundwork for true transformational change within the United States and globally. | |
| Any final thoughts as we finish today? | |
| I very much applaud President Trump and Secretary Kennedy for doing the right thing and disrupting an organization and an apparatus that has continually led to bad health outcomes. | |
| No matter what the outcome is, I am excited to see what we learned during this process that will improve the lives of everyday American citizens. | |
| I personally think it's going to be a resounding success. |
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