Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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And in this article at the end, I shit you not, the girl puts... And by the way, Eli Lilly slicing prices by 50% on their weight loss drug. That's how the article ends. And I'm like, how is this not an advertisement? And so I looked, and now that I've... I've seen it when I was a drug rep. I saw it when I owned pharmacies and labs. I saw it as a device rep.
But I went and looked and said, OK, who owns the New York Post? And when you peel back the layers to that onion, the New York Post majority holders of stock are Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street. Now, let's go look at who are the majority owners into Eli Lilly, Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street.
So the same folks who own the pharmaceutical companies who have the most to gain by keeping the narrative the same and driving America towards the chronic disease crisis and monetizing your chronic disease with all the things you and I have discussed before, whether pharmacy benefit managers, insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, front to back, top to bottom,
We've lost our way. We really have lost our way, Joe. It's all about quarterly earnings and quarterly profits. And I'm not saying that they're intentionally poisoning the American people to set them up so that they can knock them down.
I just think it's so siloed and so compartmentalized and everybody's fighting for that extra dollar that quarter, that day, that month, that they're just blocking and tackling and preventing the narrative from rising in their siloed bucket. But you have to, like in humans, we have to take a look out and go, hey, I'm not just treating your knee or your brain health or your heart health.
The body is an organism that works together. We have to do a deeper dive to assess where the disease started, what caused it, and can we uncover the root cause and fix the root cause? We have to do the same thing in our systems and our protocols and our procedures. We know that corporate capture is real.
We know that corporate capture has somewhat happened with the FDA, somewhat happened with Congress and the Senate. You know, everyone's scared to fight these guys and they can wreck your lives. It's scary and it's hard to fight when they control the media. They control all the funding to the advertising on the news networks. I mean, good luck getting a story out there.
Yeah, and to even further highlight the level of corruption and corporate capture, I sent you and Jamie an article. I don't even remember the news outlet. But when you look, who owns that news outlet? Okay, well, it says most of its funding comes from this PR firm. Then when we go to look at who owns the PR firm, it's Monsanto that owns the PR firm that got this other – and it's always layered.
It's never abundantly clear. Like it's hard – the other one we talked about was –
the atlantic you know and as i peel the layers back to the atlantic it was owned by bradley who made his money uh being a consultant for big pharma and pharmacy benefit managers he sold a big chunk of his company off to optum which is one of the dirtiest pharmacy benefit managers out there and we broke that down on your previous podcast the pharmacy benefit managers for those listeners that don't know were established in the 70s and 80s with the goal of driving down the cost of prescription drug care for america
But it got captured by the insurance companies. So Cigna, Aetna, CVS Health, all of those companies now own these middlemen that are negotiating rebates. So it's important to understand because those rebate dollars are held at that company and they're making billions off of chronic disease. Billions.
So if you're on a GLP-1 weight loss drug for the rest of your life and they've negotiated rebates to the pharmacy benefit plans that they own, they're oftentimes holding 40 to 50 percent of their profitability in a shell company that's not disclosed to the American public or the U.S. government.
And when they establish a Medicare price point on a drug, they base it off of the average wholesale price in America. And that's important because they artificially inflated the fucking average wholesale price. And they're giving themselves a rebate on the back end. But the government doesn't have line of sight into that. And they know it's happening now. It's been exposed.
We talked about this again on your last five. But it's like I think it's the state of Idaho uncovered 230 million in fraud in one year. from the PBMs, one year. Now multiply that times all the states in the United States. And think about how much money is being made off of keeping people on prescription drugs.
It's scary, man. Same people. It's scary.
It's crazy. It's scary. The only thing that protects us. And I say this. I feel like I woke up and became my grandpa. I remember him always bitching about politics, and I'm not political.
And I'm an idealist. I want to believe that, like— I want to believe that people are looking for the truth. How cute. How sweet. When your data sets are corrupt and the only info you're receiving is from bad sources that are pushing agendas, but those sources also are your future employment when you come out of government service, it just becomes a dangerous, dangerous, slippery slope. Yeah.
there are often times where enforcement changes legislation through enforcement. Like right now, the DEA is reviewing if they're going to allow telemedicine companies to continue to prescribe testosterone. And that's crazy to me because it's like all these issues we have, all the chronic disease, there is not a testosterone crisis. This is not like the opioid crisis.
There's not a lot of divergence.
I mean, the amount of people that are having side effects of that in comparison to the testosterone thing. And that's where, you know, you and I disagree somewhat on the GLP-1s. Jillian and I disagree. Callie and Casey and I disagree. It's okay to disagree. There's nothing wrong with having differing lenses.
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