Part 218 - How to Opt Out of the Sickcare System w/ Andy Schoonover
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Brian Sanders
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Andy Schoonover is the founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a company that aims to revolutionize the healthcare payment system through crowdfunding. Schoonover's journey into healthcare innovation was sparked by a personal experience when his daughter needed a simple medical procedure, resulting in an $8,000 bill that their insurance refused to cover. This frustration with the traditional health insurance system led him to create a more transparent and supportive alternative.
CrowdHealth operates in all 50 states and offers members a way to manage healthcare costs through a monthly subscription model and crowdfunding for medical expenses. The platform emphasizes transparency, affordability, and personalized support, providing services such as bill negotiation, discounted prescriptions, and access to virtual care.
In this episode Andy Schoonover and I talk about the foundation and mission of CrowdHealth, aiming to revolutionize the traditional insurance industry. Schoonover narrates his motivations stemming from personal dissatisfaction with conventional healthcare systems, leading to the creation of an alternative that promotes healthier lifestyles and aligns financial incentives with wise health choices. The discussion broadens to the concept of rationalizing detrimental behaviors by large entities for financial gain, and how such practices negatively impact society's well-being.
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Show notes:
00:12 Introducing Crowd Health: A New Approach to Healthcare
03:58 Building a Parallel Health System: The Crowd Health Mission
01:50 Andy's Journey: From Healthcare Professional to Revolutionizing the Industry
11:59 Navigating the Healthcare System: Personal Stories and Solutions
32:55 Understanding the Root Cause: Lifestyle Changes for Better Health
38:11 Redefining Diet: From Carnivore to Sapien
42:31 Understanding Metabolic Health
43:48 The Slow Danger of Processed Foods
01:00:54 The Spiritual Aspects of Health
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everyone, welcome back to P. Human. This is Brian Sanders, your host, |
| 0:04.7 | always reminding you to go back to episode one. There's so many good episodes. Go back in the catalog, |
| 0:10.5 | check out all the great guests. Today, great one, Andy Scunover, friend of |
| 0:15.4 | mine in Austin, he's the founder of a great company called Crowd Health, which is |
| 0:19.6 | revolutionizing insurance, upending the sick care model. You do not have to use a system. |
| 0:26.1 | You can kind of go around the sick care model if you use crowd health. You'll learn a lot |
| 0:30.3 | about it during the show so check it out it actually puts incentives back in |
| 0:34.6 | alignment this is what I've been talking about for years how everything is messed up in |
| 0:38.5 | current society because incentives aren't aligned and this helps put it back into alignment, helps the user, help everyone. |
| 0:46.8 | Take money away from these insurance giants and help you to focus on your own health and |
| 0:52.3 | pay money where you want to pay it. So a really good episode with some actual solutions, not just talking |
| 0:58.6 | about theoretical things. I'm a member of Crowd Health. You can be a member too with the Code Sapien. It gets you three months at $99. So I'm supporting them. I don't usually talk about companies on my podcast. But this is an exception because it's actually |
| 1:14.1 | legit and I use it and I want people to support this company because this is |
| 1:18.7 | part of the solution. This is how we create a parallel economy, a parallel society. |
| 1:23.8 | You don't need to be part of the big systems. |
| 1:26.3 | So enjoy this one, support NOSA Tail, |
| 1:28.8 | that's another part of this parallel society. |
| 1:31.0 | Get your body care, get your deodorant, get your hair products, all that stuff, it's what I use, it's amazing, it's made from beef tallow. |
| 1:37.6 | We get the best beef tallow from regenerative farms and make a high quality product with no additives, |
| 1:42.0 | no chemicals. |
| 1:43.0 | This is what you want in your skin. |
| 1:44.6 | So enjoy this one with Andy. |
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