Brigham Buhler
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5 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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But they never paid the 15%. They paid a fraction of that. And then they do that on every drug. And then how many drugs is the average American on? Four or more. So imagine the amount of revenue being generated by these insurance companies by screwing me and you and families on these medications. They're literally printing money off of our chronic disease and illness.
Every incentive they have is to keep us sick and ill and on the merry-go-round. What Callie and Casey are ringing the bell on is 100% true. And I just know the insurance model enough to expose where the money and where the bodies are buried.
The reason I know is because I owned labs, pharmacies, blood labs, all of it. And so I was in the model attempting to work within the insurance framework. And even when I talk about obstruction of care, when I left being a drug rep, I was a medical device rep.
And then when I left being a medical device rep, I became essentially a healthcare entrepreneur and I owned genetic labs and I owned blood labs and I owned compounding pharmacies. And I attempted to work within the insurance framework and I would go out and educate clinicians meet with primary cares, OBs. Like most women in America, their OB is their primary.
You know, that's who they go to for everything. And so I would go meet with these OBs and explain the importance of running comprehensive blood work on women. Like you don't just run a lipid panel. A lipid panel tells me nothing. I mean, it is very minute.
A full comprehensive panel on over 70 biomarkers allows me to deep dive into you at the biological level. Like I say, if you want to prevent the five chronic diseases that are killing humanity, why not just not let them start in the first place? And you can do that through getting proactive and predictive.
No, you're spot on. Like the difference between somebody who lives to be a centenarian, 100 years old, and somebody who dies at the average American life expectancy, which I think is 72. It's moved backwards, unfortunately, over the last two years. We're digressing in longevity and health span. The difference is the onset of chronic disease. And so it's not a silver bullet. It's no f***ing secret.
How do we help you live a longer, healthier life? We stop the progression of chronic disease. The diabetes you develop in your 40s started in your 30s. The depression you have in your 50s started in your 40s. Like all of these things are cascade effects. We can prevent by getting proactive and predictive.
Like I said earlier, it's crazy that the age demographic of 13 to 19 right now in America, over 30% of kids are pre-diabetes. We can prevent that.
The time to treat cancer is before you get cancer. If we can catch cancer at stage one, you have a 99% success rate. If we can stop you from progressing from pre-diabetes to diabetes, we drive down the risk of all chronic disease, all cause mortality, metabolic disease, cancer, every major killer of man.
It's a cascade effect.
And that's where I say it is crucial to get proactive and predictive. And I would go out and educate clinicians and OBs and primary cares on the importance of comprehensive blood work. The reason I want to tell you this is then all my doctors in Texas said, I believe you. I think you're right. I think we need to pull comprehensive blood panels. So many people go, well, I have a doctor.
They pull a blood panel. They don't. They are pulling a minimal lipid panel. Why? Because as soon as my clinician started pulling comprehensive panels, guess who got letters? The insurance companies literally will send threatening letters to your clinician, your OB, your primary care, and they will tell them, I don't like that you're pulling comprehensive blood work on Alex. Why?
We don't think you should be doing this. We don't think you have medical necessity. If you continue to pull comprehensive blood work, we will consider revoking your contract. This happened to thousands of doctors in Texas. They had to call me and go, hey, Brigham, I believe in what we're doing, but I'm not going to do this.
I can't risk my license in losing an insurance contract like UnitedHealthcare. It'll put me out of business.
Well, and that's where we go to deny and delay. Like the kid Luigi, you know, he made the comment, delay, deny, depose. And I explained this on Jillian, like, what do you mean by delay? Insurance companies are incentivized to delay and obstruct your ability to care. Now they're profiteering off of prescription medicines.
So they're okay with you going on a prescription drug because they're getting kickbacks on prescription drugs. But a surgical procedure costs them money. Something preventative is getting proactive and predictive to them. That's a budgetary issue.
If I'm an executive at UnitedHealthcare and I know that Alex is going to uncover that she has cancer, but I also know that Alex is going to be a different person's problem in 36 months because the average American switches jobs every two to three years. I am incentivized as an executive at an insurance company to not look under the hood.
I want you to be out of my system before something chronic develops that requires surgery or some big out of pocket expense. I'm okay covering your prescription drugs because I'm getting rebates and kickbacks on all those things. So if you're on four or more drugs, you're a cash cow for me. But if you go and have a big surgical procedure, you just cost me money. And so I put obstructions.
Well, they want to keep you, they don't want to spend money and they want to make money where they can and minimize expenses where they can. And there's money in you being chronically ill. There's money in selling you band-aids rather than healing wounds.
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