Ep. 1853 How to Bring Health Care Costs Way Down, Right Now

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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John Osterhoudt of Reason TV joins me to discuss the important direct primary care movement among physicians, which has brought price transparency and much lower costs to American health care.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, Episode 1853, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.8	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. The Tom Woods Show.
0:14.3	Hey folks, Tom Woods here with John Osterhout today. John is a producer over at Reason TV,
0:20.6	and he's just published a really interesting and important video on keeping health costs down
0:26.9	through a model called direct primary care that more and more physicians are looking into
0:32.0	adopting. And we're going to talk about exactly what that is. You may be familiar with it
0:36.6	from previous Tom Woods Show episodes, but it's been a long, long time, and this is a really
0:42.2	important topic. You almost can't believe how simple the model is, and yet it makes basic health
0:48.4	care far, far more affordable than this crazy labyrinth we have to negotiate all the time.
0:55.2	So I really want to urge you to check out the video. It's going to be at the show notes page,
0:59.1	Tom Woods dot com slash 1853, and circulate that among your friends. Make sure they see it,
1:06.0	because it really does help to answer a lot of the complaints about what people think is free
1:12.7	market health care. Well, here's real free market health care. Here's a preview of what it would
1:16.8	actually be like if only we could have it. So John, welcome to the show. Thanks Tom. Great to be here.
1:23.0	You're one of the few guests who's actually seen the very room in which the Tom Woods Show
1:29.6	is produced. Oh, yeah. That was a great time. It's your in your studio in October for a
1:36.0	supporting listeners event. So that was a great time. And it was wonderful to return to the old
1:40.2	normal. So thanks for that. My pleasure. My pleasure. It was great having you and great having
1:44.3	all these folks. So let's talk about a video you just made over at Reason TV. I got a note about
1:52.1	it from our friend Jean Epstein, who is very good at scouting out good guests and topics for me.
1:58.7	And he's one of the most reliable Tom Woods Show listeners ever. And so when I get a note from him,
2:06.4	I always open it up and see what he's got to say. And then when I saw that it was you, and I
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