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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | The entire healthcare system is broken. |
0:02.8 | Recently, we've witnessed the assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare. |
0:07.4 | And the craziest thing is many people have cheered and celebrated that assassination. |
0:12.5 | Call me old-fashioned, but I don't celebrate the assassination of an innocent man who's part of a broken system. |
0:18.5 | I don't celebrate the assassination of a scapegoat. |
0:22.1 | But many people do. |
0:26.1 | You can find them on blue sky, apparently. That's where they like to go, because that's where their political ideology fits best. Well, I have an article out now in Sensible Medicine, and it really |
0:31.5 | is about the entire healthcare system, which is profoundly broken. There is no question it's a broken |
0:36.4 | system. We spend 20% of GDP on health care. |
0:39.9 | Our outcomes are worse than any comparable peer nation. |
0:42.7 | No other peer nation spends as much as we do. |
0:44.8 | We just spend, spend, spend. |
0:46.9 | Our paychecks get smaller and smaller. |
0:48.9 | We're drowning on premiums, |
0:50.4 | and we're not getting health care that actually makes us healthier, |
0:53.3 | makes us live better or |
0:54.2 | longer. Ironically, the solution to good health is probably much more about diet and lifestyle |
1:01.0 | and things outside of health care, schools, education, nutrition. Those are the things we don't |
1:06.8 | want to pay for. We want to pay for unproven medical devices once you already have a problem |
1:10.6 | that's incurable. That's the American way. Now, who's at fault? I see a lot of people |
1:15.6 | celebrate this CEO assassin. I see someplace in Brooklyn has got his poster. They're making a martyr |
1:21.0 | out of this guy. You should not make a martyr out of an assassin who basically killed an innocent |
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