Desperate Doctors
Doctors in the U.S. are demoralized. They are trapped by corrupt institutions in every direction. Calley Means explains:
Doctors have the highest suicide rate and the highest burnout rate of any profession in America. It's not because they're working hard. We all work hard. And we know all missionaries who are working hard. It's that they got trapped in this system with a lot of debt. They came in for the right reasons, and they realized nobody's getting better.So doctors want to be unleashed. The problem is the standard of care. The problem with that corrupt. medical research that says heart diseases, statin deficiency, and obesity, and Ozempic deficiency, that goes into the CMS, the Medicare-Medicaid guidance.
Now, we spend more on Medicare-Medicaid than the defense budget and the intelligence budget by far, and it's much faster growing. And what we have in America is that doctors are stuck in basically a top-down mandate. They basically are, they're not able to talk to a pre-diabetic child about food. There's no incentive for food. There's a bill right now saying that Medicare needs to cover Ozempic, $1,600 per person. Nothing in that bill for food.
So doctors, what's that? Per month. Per month, $1,600 per month. That's gonna be a trillion dollars. That's why Novo Nordics, this Denmark company, is the ninth most valuable company in the world. 90% of their profits are expected in the United States. Ozempic costs $80 a month in Germany and Scandinavia. It's totally rigged.
So the key point in the first year of getting the research right is that research funds and informs the standard of care guidelines for Medicare and Medicaid that then impact private insurance. It's so simple. But if we have an obesity and diabetes crisis among six-year-olds, maybe it's not working to drug them. Maybe doctors should be recommending dietary interventions.
Maybe we should be incentivizing exercise. You can do that from the medical system if you get the standards of care right. And frankly, a lot of this is bureaucratic. It's not even statutory. You don't even need Congress. We have outsourced billing codes in Medicare and Medicaid to the AMA, which is a lobbying group for pharma. And they outsource to medical groups like the American Diabetes Association and American Academy of Pediatrics that are literally pharma front groups.