Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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Like magnesium, zinc, sunlight, and sodium can probably solve a huge amount of our anxiety in this country.
They can't now. The system has failed Americans in so many ways. And even the healthcare cost portion, so many people go, well, man, I can't afford preventative care. And to get a comprehensive blood panel and an hour on the phone with a clinician is 500 bucks. And I'm not trivializing, that's a lot of money. But how much do you spend on beer? How much do you spend on your car?
You're in your car a few hours a day. You get one body. 400 trillion to one is what I told the Senate. 400 trillion to one are the chances that God gave us this life today. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to let these people ruin it? and riddle you with chronic disease and illness and your family. It's not about dollars. It's about memories. It's about moments.
It's about having the life you've always wanted and living into your elderly years being healthy and not chronically ill and not on four or more fucking drugs. But the only way we can do that is if this fucking government gets off its ass and starts doing something about what these insurance companies and these pharmaceutical companies are doing to us.
So they're an unnecessary middleman. I think what needs to happen is if you get rid of the pharmacy benefit managers, you get rid of a huge profit center for the insurance companies. You take away their incentive to keep you on prescription drugs. Now they're de-incentivized because you're costing them money. If they don't get those rebates, They're losing money by you being on prescription drugs.
And they even have a safe harbor with the federal government. The federal government doesn't. This is insanity, Tucker. The federal government does not have line of sight into Medicare and Medicaid and why the prescription drugs are costing them that much.
so what the insurance companies do what does that mean so i'll explain let's go back to insulin let's i'm going to use it we'll just make up a drug drug a is a let's say the insurance company tells the people the average wholesale price in america for this drug is a thousand dollars a month they never paid the thousand they paid 500 right they tell us because the rebate they tell us it's a thousand okay now they've set the average wholesale price because they're the ones that set it
Then they negotiate for Medicare and Medicaid with the federal government. And they say, hey, federal government, since you're our buddy, we'll give you a price break. We're going to sell it to you for $800 a month. Better than anywhere in the country. You're getting a $200 price concession per month on this drug. They didn't pay $800. They paid $500.
They made $300 off of the federal government every month. And who paid that? Me and you.
There is a safe harbor, and that's what people are trying to peel through. They're trying to get rid of this safe harbor. I think the Senate had an investigation they launched, I think, two years ago on the cost of insulin. And so when we talk about people celebrating the death of this CEO, it's terrible, but I'm trying to get people to understand where this anger and animosity comes from.
Well, I think it's a fair question. People are catching on to the magic trick and they're going, wait a second, you are screwing us. And the reason my cost of healthcare is so expensive and I can't get my surgeries and my kid's addicted to opioids and my wife is dying of cancer and I'm fighting with you to get this coverage is because you are literally printing money off of chronic disease.
It is not about patient lives and patient outcomes. It's about profits. and they're killing it all the way to the bank.
They're going to come in and say, if there's no pharmacy benefit managers, we're an advocate on behalf of the people. We negotiate down the cost of prescription drug care. Federal government, if you look at this and add the numbers up, the average wholesale price of every drug in America times the amount of patient lives in America
and then I say I'm giving you a 30% price concession on all of the average wholesale price, I can make the math look good. But like I said earlier- But the wholesale price is fake. It's fake, yes. Like I said earlier, there's liars, there's damn liars, and then there's statistics.
Bingo, bingo. And then they control the copays and deductibles, which drive the behaviors of the patient. So, you know, if I'm some guy working on oil rig and I'm working my ass off and I'm exhausted and I'm on four or more meds and one med is a $20 copay and addictive and abusive with side effects, but the other med is a $100 copay, what do you think most people are going to take?
And, you know, I think y'all covered this with Callie and Casey, who are my buddies. But, you know, the third leading cause of death in America is medical misuse. And that's with us reporting less than 2% of adverse events.
And there's so much we could get into with the FDA and all that. I mean, I don't want to... We could go all day. There's a lot. There's a lot there.
I hope he gets confirmed. You know, I'm not super political. I didn't get political until this. And it's ironic. I... Bobby, I think, cares. And Bobby, you know, RFK reached out and met with me. And the two politicians that I've ever reached out and said, I want to talk about this in my adult life were Tulsi Gabbard and RFK.
And I've gotten to know both of them and they're amazing humans and good people. And they care about people and they care about this country. And what I've seen Trump do so far has me more excited. I mean, I talked to Joe about it. We were texting. We're like, we're back. America's back. Like, I am excited that there's hope. But I do give this with a caveat to the American people.
Do not, it will take years for the government to overhaul and fix these things if we can do it. Do not wait for them to get.
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