Episode 210 Scott Adams: Talking to Dr. Shiva About How to Lower Healthcare Costs

September 7, 2018

Episode 210 Scott Adams: Talking to Dr. Shiva About How to Lower Healthcare Costs

Topics: 

• Dr. Shiva suing to be included in debates with Elizabeth Warren
• Options to lower healthcare costs and improve quality of care
• Direct pay models provide better care and lower costs
• Current $800 per month cost can come down to $200
• “GPOs” Group Purchasing Organizations artificially inflate costs
• Originally a cost reduction concept
• Now an unchallenged source of insanely inflated prices
• There’s only 3 GPOs, and they’re planning to merge with the big insurance companies
• NIH funding system and peer review journals need to be changed
• Einstein’s opinion: Peers are the biggest critics of innovation
• Peer review journal system is anti-innovation
• Laws and incentives drive a lack of primary care physicians
• Incentives drive physicians to join large medical organizations
• State and Fed law changes to increase independent doctors
• Dr. Shiva: Medical cannabis should be decriminalized and studied

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