Ex-Pharma Rep: It's Way More Corrupt Than You Think - Brigham Buhler

The number one cause of bankruptcy in America is healthcare costs.

100%.

Why? How did we end up there?

Oh, it's a long, twisted road. One of the things I've, I've talked about a lot is, you know, in medicine, if you're going to understand or treat a disease state, you, you, you have to find the root cause. And if we go to find the root cause of the broken healthcare system in America, it runs deep, and it's insidious, and it's widespread. So, it's a lot to unpack, but it starts with our food, our diet, diet, our lifestyle, our nutrition, um, our food sources. What you and I were talking about right before we went on the air, is all the contaminants in our food, all the ingredients in our food. Uh, you know, a good friend of mine, Bonnie Harie, has been beating the drum on all these media outlets lately, exposing, like, in the United States, in the '80s, we had 700 approved ingredients in our food. Now, we have 10,000. In Europe, it's still close to 700. Why (laughs) in America do we have 10,000? One set of ingredients for Americans in the same factory, and a different set of ingredients for Canadians, whether it's Froot Loops or whatever it is, but that's one component of the issue. Then we go to the checks and balances, like, if we have a primary care in America that only has six minutes with a patient, and they're controlled by what the insurance companies do, uh, the main message that I have for people is, it comes down to corporate capture, like, if you show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcomes. And our entire incentive systems in this country are based off monetizing and capitalizing off chronic disease. It's all about quarterly earnings, quarterly profits. Nowhere in anyone's business school or any of these executives is their priority to drive health span or to cure chronic disease.

Oddly, it's actually quite an American approach to things. You know, i- profits first, that's very important to us.

It is.

Capitalism.

It, it's wild.

There's a few areas that we maybe should put profits second or third, perhaps.

Yeah. Uh, and, and, and healthcare's definitely one of those. And so, throughout the system, the checks, the balances, all of that has been ripped out, even with the collusion of our three-letter alphabet organizations, you know, whether we're talking about the FDA, the NIH, the CDC. All of these various entities have also been corporately captured. A lot of their funding, a lot of their, uh, like, goals and initiatives are based off of helping these giant institutions that are monetizing these things.

How recently has it been since saying stuff like this didn't sound like crazy conspiracy theories?

You know what's wild, is I was telling Joe this stuff, like, five years ago, uh, and, and one day, Rogan's like, "Come on the podcast." And when I went on there, nobody was talking about some of these things, like, especially the insurance part. The insurance is one of these hidden monsters that people just don't know, and even to this day, they don't know. And even after doing, uh, some of these bigger platforms like yourself, you know, now the message is getting out, and I've had people like Bobby Kennedy reach out, and I went and sat down, and even a guy who's been in the trenches, who's battled big pharma, who's battled, uh, these big corporate captured institutions, when I brought up PBMs, he said, "I don't, what are you talking about a PBM? I don't have a PBM, I have insurance." And that's the feedback most people give me. "I don't know, I don't have a PBM." And so I have to, like, methodically walk them through what a PBM is, how it's hurting America's health. So, if we look back to this whole, uh, profits first model, l- we talk so much about big pharma, big pharma, big pharma. The big five insurance companies made four times the revenue of the biggest five pharmaceutical companies last year, 4X the revenue. They control every surgery, every drug, every treatment, when, where, and how you can ac- access healthcare and treatments and preventative care.