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

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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