#374 - "Doctors Are Legally BANNED From Telling You This" - Pharma Whistleblower | Brigham Buhler
episodePreviously titled “#374 - Ex-Pharma Insider Exposes the $368 Billion Health Insurance Scam | Brigham Buhler” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is Brigham Buhler's background in the pharmaceutical industry?
Brigham. Thanks for coming, bro. Man, thank you for having me. Dude, of course. I'm so happy that Jesse Michaels was able to introduce us back in July when I was in Austin.
Oh, I love your show. It's funny. We were talking right before I listened to you and Jesse and Joe Rogan kind of broke me into this whole world, but I love your podcast, Jesse's podcast. They're phenomenal.
Yeah, dude. Thank you so much. And it's been awesome to get to meet you over the past few months and chat with you about this crazy stuff. You have a wild backstory. And to start this thing off, I think you should let people know the industry you came from and what you were doing for work back in the day, which led you down the path to where you are now with Ways to Well.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a wild story. There's a Steve Jobs quote that talks about when you look back at your life and connect the dots, you'll realize that you were always exactly where you're supposed to be. And I don't know how to explain it. Even the bad things that have happened in the history of like where I was, everything put me in a position to know the things I know today that have allowed me to help like with the government and the lobbying and the fight against the corruption in the healthcare system. But I started out as a drug rep right out of college. like bright eyed bushy tail. I went to University of Houston, they offered me a job to launch a drug that hadn't been announced yet. And I'm like a 20 year old kid and they're like, can you get out?
Can you graduate in the next couple of months? So I like took 24 hours in summer school, did a bunch of stuff to try and get out of college early. And I got to launch Cialis in North America for a company called Eli Lilly. So I started out right out of school, thinking that we were gonna, at the time, you gotta think I'm 45. So this was 25 years ago, which is crazy to say. I thought- That's insane. I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna help people and I'm gonna be a drug rep and I'm gonna educate doctors on like cutting edge treatments and we're gonna change the world. And you get into that and we can get into it, but that's not at all what that was. And so within a couple of years, I figured it out pretty quick for a kid that this isn't gonna work for me.
And I jumped out of that into MedDevice.
What are the primary issues with the American healthcare system?
And I spent almost a decade working in the operating room with some of the best and brightest surgeons in America. And I got a look behind the curtain of the surgical market and the hospital systems and the insurance systems and how all of this is an intricate network that's intertwined. um and during that time frame is when i lost my brother to the opioid crisis which then led to me starting a pharmacy that build insurances and worked within the insurance framework trying to provide non-abusive non-addictive opioid alternatives to the american people a no-brainer like it's safer it's better it's cheaper and what i saw like just shocked me And from there, I evolved into realizing I wasn't going to be able to stay alive as an entrepreneur in an insurance model.
And so it led to me finding a farm, building a pharmacy, breaking away, starting a cash pay pharmacy almost a decade ago, which was at the time, nobody did that. Like nobody had cash pay farm. People like, what are you doing? You're going to sell meds. Everyone has insurance. What do you mean we're going to pay cash? Right. because that whole COVID event hadn't happened yet. And the movement towards preventative care hadn't happened yet. And I've been talking about preventative care, predictive medicine for almost a decade. And the reason I was doing it was candidly, like to paraphrase all of it, I saw that the ship was sinking And I knew the only way to fix this was to build a life raft. And in my mind, the life raft was to get proactive, predictive and preventative.
You've got to take yourself out of the broken health care system because under every rock I looked under in that system, there was another rattlesnake. It was terrifying what I saw from the surgical market to the drug rep market, to the care that patients got, to the collusion of industry, to the power that they had over the hospitals.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Brigham Buhler's background in the pharmaceutical industry?
0:07–2:23
2
What are the primary issues with the American healthcare system?
2:23–14:22
3
Why should patients consider self-paying for prescription drugs?
14:22–19:42
4
How do insurance companies influence medication prescriptions?
19:42–1:24:32
5
What are the implications of the new stem cell treatments from Japan?
1:24:32–1:25:50
6
How do Muse stem cells differ from traditional stem cells?
1:25:50–1:27:33
7
What advancements are being made in the field of psychedelics?
1:27:33–1:28:53
8
How do regulatory challenges impact healthcare innovation in the U.S.?
1:28:53–2:48:17
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