Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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I think it's a multitude of things. I hate to go that far, but one, an easy low-hanging fruit that we could all agree on is... The insurance companies look at that and go, why do I want them to run a $500 blood test when I can pressure them into running a $50 blood test, right? And now, why would I want to uncover something that could lead to a surgery that costs me more money?
Because they're not monetizing the surgery, but they are monetizing the drugs. And so there's an incentive system to keep you on drugs. And then people go, well, eventually they're going to need surgery. So wouldn't that be catastrophic for the insurance? No, because I go back to my previous statement. Most people's insurance comes from their employer. And guess what happens in America?
The average American switches jobs every two and a half years. So if I'm an executive at, let's just say Cigna, so I don't keep picking on United. If I'm an executive at Cigna and I've got Joe Bob and he's pre-diabetic and he's Bubba's headed towards being morbidly obese and losing a foot. I know that he's got two years before we reach that chronic crisis. And by then he's somebody else's problem.
Obese bag. But where the sad part is, most of the time, that these huge healthcare expenses happen are when they become the taxpayer's problem. Once you're over the age of 65 and you're Medicare or Medicaid and you're no longer on an employer's plan is when the years and years and years of chronic abuse, overprescription, all of that, the bill gets passed to who? Us, the taxpayers. Right.
And so the insurance companies play this whack-a-mole, kick the can down the road, delay, delay, delay, deny, depose. Like, let's stay away from it. We'll just let somebody else deal with it because it's all about hitting the quarterly number. And even at the hospital systems. I would be at the hospital, and they're like, we've got to get our surgical volumes up.
We've got to hit our number this quarter. We're down 25%. You need to see more patients today. You need to find knee surgeries. You need to find spine surgeries. It is all about generating revenue. The entire ecosystem, the checks and balances, all of it's been thrown out the fucking window, man. It is all crank, crank, crank. Print money.
Yeah. So one of the challenges is let's let's go to like let's go to even let's go back to just red dye. Right. This is really easy. Even when we got together, that first Maha group and we testified in front of the Senate, I think in September of last year, there was an article that came out.
Days after we testified, called us the woo-woo caucus, talked about how none of us have clinical experience and don't know what we're talking about. Let's be real. I was the only one not qualified to be in that room. We had, you know, Marty Makary, who's now the head of the FDA. So I'm very optimistic. I know I've been very disgruntled about the FDA.
I'm very optimistic about Marty at the helm of the FDA team. hopefully fixing the chronic problem there. We had Chris Palmer, a Harvard professor, you name it. I mean, this was a lot of very intelligent people. I was, again, the least qualified to be in that room. And I was there as an industry insider, just explaining what I had seen. The day, two days after, a Hatchet Job article comes out.
When you go and look who funds that article, it was funded by Bayer Monsanto. The Bayer Monsanto funded this article. Why? Why would they have funded this hatchet job article? Because Bayer is a drug company and Monsanto is a chemical company. And those chemicals are part of what's causing and perpetuating disease states in this nation. And then we go to the red food dye.
Like everyone laughed about red food dye. Well, why did the FDA decide now that RFK is coming into power right at the tail end of Biden's administration to remove red food dye? Again, I'm not out here saying that it's like going to save the world, but it is tied to ADHD and in children and red food diet can perpetuate ADHD in children and hyperactivity.
And yet we're prescribing ADHD and hyperactivity drugs at an all time high. And. Those are chemical straitjackets that then perpetuate the depression and anxiety that children have in high school and into their adult lives. And so there is no such thing as a free lunch. And I don't think it hurts to begin to question the narrative. And I'm not saying it's some big, bad conspiracy to do it.
What I'm saying is we have siloed our industries and our accessibility and our knowledge in such a way that you look like a crazy person for questioning it.
But historically, I would have said it's compartmentalized, it's siloed, much like the human body, right? We have built an entire health ecosystem of siloed experts. The body is one organism. The gut biome impacts your body.
chemical levels in your brain it's what it's the second brain to the body you know and that has a direct impact on your serotonin your dopamine all of that so to silo off these different areas and we are so niche and specialized that in a way we're missing the big picture it's interesting how the approach to health is similar to the structural approach to health care
Who's driving the car?
Well, it comes down to I mean, people would say the NIH and the FDA, you know, and HHS, you know, human health services. But then we go back to corporate capture. So I'll just systematically go, OK, let's look at the FDA.
OK, out of the FDA, almost every single one of the heads of the FDA for the last 20 something years have gone to work for the exact institutions they were supposed to be protecting the American people from. So the FDA has been captured, corrupted and colluded with industry.
OK, then we go to HHS, you know, HHS directly during Obamacare helped create what are now all these big insurance companies and PBMs and their unilateral control of our health care system. They created carve outs and safety nets that allow for nondisclosure on how much money is being held at a PBM. Again, corporate capture, collusion, corruption. What was the NIH? OK, OK.
80 to 90% of the NIH funding comes from the American taxpayer. Okay. And out of 356 blockbuster drugs over the last 15 years, how many of those do you think started at the NIH funded by us? I don't know. 100 fucking percent. Yeah. 100% of these drugs came from American taxpayer dollars. Then what happens is Big Pharma goes, we innovate, we innovate, do you?
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