HeyJaredDisruptive Dialogue with Chuck Melendi
The healthcare system in our country is broken. It is time to fight for change, and to do it together. Tune in as retired industry executive Chuck Melendi and Disruptive Dialogue explore how healthcare corporations are sticking it to patients, providers and businesses.
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340B, Hospital Consolidation, and Where the Money Goes | ft. Brian Reid (opens the original)
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Hospitals drive close to a third of all healthcare spending in this country, and today we turn the focus there. My guest is Brian Reid, author of the daily Cost Curve newsletter and a former Bloomberg and Washington Post health policy reporter. We dig into 340B, a drug discount program written as a two-page law in 1992 that now moves more than $100 billion a year, and Brian lays out who really collects the discount and what employers are losing in the process. Then we get into what happens to pr
Insurers Profit From Denying Care. A Survivor Fights Back (opens the original)
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Matt Zachary — brain cancer survivor at 21, founder of Stupid Cancer, and author of We the Patients — joins me to make the case that American healthcare isn't broken, it's finished. It was designed to move money, and denying your care is now more profitable than delivering it. We cover how employer-based coverage and the 1973 HMO Act got us here, the billions insurers make by saying no on purpose, why Medicare Advantage is neither, and what AARP gets paid to lend its name to a UnitedHealth produ
The RX Podfather on PBMs, Pharmacy Burnout, and the Fight to Save Your Pharmacist | ft. Todd Eury, founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network (opens the original)
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Your pharmacist may be the last line of defense between you and a dangerous medication mistake — and the system is grinding them into the ground. This week, Chuck talks with Todd Eury, founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network and the original voice of pharmacy podcasting since 2009, about the forces hollowing out one of healthcare's most trusted professions. With 17 years and more than 4,000 episodes behind him, Todd has watched PBMs evolve from a genuinely useful flat-fee service into multi-tril
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