Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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And what's unfortunate is that's what's happening to millions and millions of Americans every day. What happened is terrible. It's tragic. Nobody has the right to play judge, jury, and executioner. but neither do the PBMs and the insurance companies. And that's what they're doing every day.
They are monetizing and printing money on the backs of Americans, monetizing our chronic disease and illness, making money off prescription drugs while denying surgeries, slow playing surgeries. And I mean, I could go on for hours because it just gets deeper and deeper.
And I love to show people how, once I show people the magic trick, they will be able to see through the insurance's scam because it's a scam. I mean, they're gangsters. Like, they're the mob.
It affects everything. I mean, everything under the sun. Again, they decide what gets covered, how it gets covered, what the reimbursement rate is, who gets in for surgery, when you get in for surgery. then they can change the surgery. You know, the other thing is having owned labs and pharmacies and had all these touch points. I didn't know this. Like I was naive like everybody else.
You know, I just thought you pay your hard earned money and when things go south, the insurance has got your back. Like that's literally how naive I was. That's what I thought. But what you learned is HMOs are not health insurance. They are managed care. And what do I mean by that? You've got to think of it like, the analogy I use is think of car insurance. It's there if you wreck the fucking car.
Exactly. And that's all it's good for. But they're not going to rotate the tires, change the oil, maintain the vehicle. Right. If you put your life and your family's life in the hands of these insurance companies, they are going to monetize your chronic disease. And I say it, if you see the average American doctor and you eat the average American diet,
then don't be surprised when you die of the average American chronic disease.
Correct. Okay. And the challenge is... Every safety net throughout the system has been captured. And that's why I think the corporate capture narrative is so important. And that's what I was trying to get through to the Senate. Everyone talks about the speech that Eisenhower gave about the military industrial complex. People forget there was a second half to that speech. It's very rare.
Bobby Kennedy is actually the only person I've ever heard talk about it. And I was so excited when I heard him talk about it because I'm like, finally. And the second half was, if we allow, corporate interest to capture our scientific community, then what we will find is we will lose the garage tinkerer. We will lose the innovator.
We will stifle and suppress innovation and everything will turn to basically profits and a profit driven system. Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcomes. We have built a system based on quarterly profits and quarterly earnings throughout the system. Whether we're talking about the pharmaceutical industry,
the big health insurance companies, the hospital systems, the doctor's practices, everyone is built into this ecosystem that is attempting to capture human lives and monetize those touch points. So everything that you do is a revenue generator for all of these various entities. And there's so much money being made off chronic disease. There's no interest in curing chronic disease.
And so the National Institute for Health, like I said earlier, they are the seed essentially that grows into the tree. And they're the ones doing most of the innovation and early development of drugs. But they're doing it oftentimes through... incentives that incentivize them to look at treatments rather than cures.
And so the problem is we're just launching band-aids into the marketplace rather than healing the wound. And in medicine, we say, to treat chronic disease, you have to uncover the root cause. And I'm telling you, the root cause runs deep and it's insidious and it's dark.
And it has captured our entire healthcare ecosystem front to back, from the food we eat, to the way we grow our food, to the way we process our food. Big tobacco captured most of the food industry in the 80s.
They literally owned the food industry and brought their marketing campaigns and strategies to the food industry, where they made food more addictive, more processed, and more chemically laden. And so throughout that process, now you are eating the wrong foods and you're getting chronically ill at a disproportionate rate. The preventative care was the way to prevent that.
And now those doctors are out of that ecosystem. So now you're essentially getting pushed into chronic disease where then the insurance companies monopolize and profiteer off of it for years. And then your employer and the American people and the taxpayers are who are really fitting the bill for all of this.
Absolutely. They were knowing and willingly active participants. They know. I mean, UnitedHealthcare implemented an AI algorithm that rejected 90% of claims inaccurately. 90% of Medicare claims for surgeries were getting rejected inaccurately.
right which drove up their profits they're they're having double digit profit growth right now um when you asked about how profitable they are for the last like five years they've doubled their stock price so you also got to not just think about monthly like it's revenue and profits but it's also what is your shareholder return on investment and what are your stocks doing and if we look at that who guess who owns the majority of the big five insurance companies blackrock vanguard state street guess who owns the majority of the pharmaceutical companies
It's BlackRock Vanguard State Street. Guess who owns the majority of the media outlets? It's BlackRock Vanguard State Street. Do you start to sense a trend here? I do. And guess who funds and lobbies more than anybody? The pharmaceutical industry, followed by one of the top players is the health insurance industry. And then... you've got these big conglomerates that are funding all of this.
So there's so many levers we can pull to generate revenue off of these individuals that it's staggering. Yeah. And so it's, they, they absolutely know and it makes it very, very hard. There's no alternative. Like if I'm a hospital, I'm, I can't afford to lose Blue Cross Blue Shield. I can't afford to lose United Healthcare. I'm out of business.
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