192: Andy Schoonover - Crowdfunding Better Health
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Andy Schoonover is the Founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a platform that crowdfunds healthcare costs for its members so they can ditch their health insurance plans.
He chats with Dr. Anthony Gustin about why this model solves the biggest problems in our broken medical-industrial complex and brings a community-first approach back to healthcare.
Tune in to the episode to hear them discuss:
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What inspired Andy to start CrowdHealth
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What’s wrong with the health insurance industry
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How people rack up million-dollar hospital bills
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What makes paying doctors in cash at the point of care different
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How crowdfunded healthcare works
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How CrowdHealth members dramatically reduce their healthcare expenses
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What incentivizes members to contribute to others and take better care of their health
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The demographics of their members and the most common crowdfunding requests
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How many claims have been denied vs. fully funded
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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Andy Schoonover’s company, CrowdHealth
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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, MD
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Natural State Podcast. I am your host |
| 0:08.5 | Dr. Anthony Guston. It is my belief that the natural state of |
| 0:11.8 | any living organism's health and that our artificial |
| 0:14.4 | habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. |
| 0:17.7 | This show is my attempt to dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, |
| 0:22.1 | relationships, and more |
| 0:23.6 | to help you reclaim your natural state of health |
| 0:25.7 | in a modern world and show you how to thrive |
| 0:27.8 | in an environment that stacked against you. |
| 0:29.9 | If you enjoyed today's show, |
| 0:31.0 | you can find out more details and information at |
| 0:33.5 | Dr Anthony Guston.com. Today I welcome Andy Scoonover to the podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | Andy is the founder and CEO of a company called Crowd Health. The website is Joing Crowd Health. |
| 0:43.7 | It was recommended to me by some friends and I was very skeptical when I was |
| 0:49.4 | reading about Crowd Health. You'll notice that in the podcast. I have thought about the health care a lot and how we employ health insurance. Being a clinician, I had a lot of issues with getting reimbursed, things like that, and so it's something that I've thought about for a long time and Andy has come up with a solution where people can effectively have a crowd source health care plan which is something that is actually common in some small religions and things like Amish communities etc but he has made it accessible for anybody. |
| 1:17.3 | So I pretty much drill Andy with questions for an hour here basically figuring out like does this actually work what is going on here and I am not an investor I have no financial kick back here I don't get anything from running this podcast. I signed up with my own money and |
| 1:36.4 | and now part of the platform just to see how it goes. I'm going to run it actually concurrently to my health insurance and |
| 1:41.5 | submit some claims and see how it goes and then probably |
| 1:44.4 | post a review after that to see like is this thing legit or not? It seems to be the case and he seems to be the real |
| 1:50.5 | deal he's a great guy a bunch of friends who are smarter than me, |
| 1:54.5 | which doesn't take much these days, but I've recommended Andy as a very, not even |
| 1:59.2 | trustworthy, but just a really brilliant guy who has figured out some things that really seem |
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