Big Pharma’s ugly cousin… Medical Insurance Companies

Red Pill Your Healthcast

Lauren Johnson and Dr. Charlie Fagenholz

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.4 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Red Pill Your Healthcast with Dr. Charlie and Nurse Practitioner Lauren- We’re talking about Big Pharma’s ugly cousin… medical insurance companies. With "great" insurance comes regular (often unnecessary) visits to the Doctor that are followed with prescription drugs. This doesn’t create health but leads you further into disease. Private insurance, health shares, compensations for certain procedures, fraud, overbilling etc… We are diving deep into these from both the provider standpoint to the patient. Let’s dive in Dr. Charlie Website Instagram Membership Nurse Practitioner Lauren Website Instagram Email List NY Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html In sum, major insurance companies were giving bonuses and bottles of champagne to doctors that found additional illness in old patients. Listen for the full breakdown from Dr. Charlie. Cod liver oil in the podcast here is the link. Code naturalnursemomma for 10% off Nebulizer- Shop Reishi Mushroom- Shop Dr. Charlie has found this supplement has been extremely helpful to combat the current bug going around. Olive Leaf Blog on Battling a Fever - Read here. Thanks for listening y'all!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Red Pillier Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie Faganholz,
0:07.6	and I'm here with my favorite nurse practitioner in the whole wide world, Lauren Johnson.
0:12.1	We hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. If you are not in America, we hope you had a great week.
0:17.8	And we have an interesting topic this week. I feel like I always say that, but I really think this one's really interesting because
0:23.8	we can take this any which way.
0:25.6	So we're going to be talking about Big Pharma's ugly cousin insurance companies, medical
0:32.1	insurance companies.
0:33.7	So I am not an expert in this.
0:36.9	I have never taken insurance as a practicing chiropractor.
0:41.3	The reason why I haven't is because I could never make sense in my head of providing a valuable treatment and then having to argue with someone who has the slightest idea about what I'm doing
0:55.8	to reimburse me. So out of school, I started in a clinic that was all cash and I am still all
1:03.7	cash. And so one of the other trends or things I've noticed in private practice is the people who have the best insurance
1:13.9	policies because people like to brag how good their insurance is. It's an interesting phenomenon.
1:18.9	Like, oh, I have I have this and that and it's great, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:23.0	Those people are always the sickest because with quote unquote great insurance comes very easy
1:29.8	visits to the doctor for every tickle and scratch and stuff he knows.
1:33.4	And then what do they give you?
1:34.5	They give you pharmaceutical drugs.
1:36.2	What does that do?
1:37.2	Doesn't create health.
1:38.3	It actually leads you further into disease, which then the insurance company will benefit
1:42.3	more because you will be sick.
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