Today’s Healthcare System is Corrupted and No one Wants to Talk about Why or How to Fix it
- Dr Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD – Inventor of Email, scientist, engineer, educator – presents a Systems Visualization on what the Healthcare System used to be like, what it is today, and what it should be.
- Traditionally 80-90% of all things were handled by the Family Practitioner in a private practice, who we had direct private access to and 10-20% of needs were handled by hospitals or specialists.
- The Healthcare System today is filled with GPO’s and PBM’s, middlemen who have consolidated and monopolized relationships with administrators of Big Hospitals to hide raising costs of care.
- With these raised costs of care from middlemen, Americans feel as if they must buy insurance, in fear of the high costs associated with Healthcare and so the costs stay high from GPO’s and PBM’s.
- The solution is Direct Primary Care (DPC) and this incentivizes an individual to pick their Healthcare Practitioner wisely, where $75 a month covers that 80-90% and around $125 for crisis insurance out of pocket.
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Background
Good evening, everyone. This is Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, it’s late at night but we’re gonna have a discussion. We’re gonna do a live today on the Healthcare System. It’s a very interesting system. A lot of people don’t understand how it works. But we’re going to do a systems visualization. Today, I’m going to teach you what systems visualizations are, basically draw stuff. So I’m going to talk today about the Healthcare System. Many of you know that I’ve spent a lot of my life really very, very intrigued by health. And also fighting for hopefully, justice, what I believe to be justice. So what’s interesting is in, in the ancient traditional systems of medicine, they never separated the warrior from the healer. Because both went to fight against death, in many ways, you know, against injustice in many ways. So the warrior and the healer were always embedded as one in the same. They weren’t seen as, Oh, this guy’s a fighter, and he’s being aggressive. And this guy’s all sweet and nice. And that’s what happened in the current world of the New Age. Okay, the current New Age medicine and the current world of the Military Industrial Complex has split these two worlds in a very screwed up way. So over here, you have new age, people who talk softly and do yoga and yoga is a great thing. But they’re, they’re seen as Oh, they’re nice and kind and loving people, they share the other cheek. And over here are the aggressive people who fight for their rights, you follow what I’m saying? But the reality is, when you take a Systems Approach, and you take a holistic view of life and existence, the warrior and the healer are the same person, the warrior and the healer are the same person.
So if you look at many archetypes in different religions, even if you look at the archetype in the western religion, like Christianity, great religion, particularly this symbol of Christ and the Spirit of Christ. In the Old Testament, there’s a story of the Archangel Michael, who, you know, fights Lucifer and, and throws the devils out of heaven. Now Archangel Michael is seen as a warrior, who is a God of War in some way, so goes to war, but he’s also the healing symbol. he’s a he’s one of the healing angels and his feathers are that of the peacock. Now, what’s fascinating is in the Indian religion, there is a very interesting deity called Murugan, who is the son of Shiva, who is also the God of war. Very similar story, there’s stories of how he throws out the asuras or the devils who were about to destroy the Devas, the good angels, and Murugan comes and destroys them. In many ways much like Archangel Michael. He also is known as a God of medicine, but he also has peacock feathers, interestingly enough. So there are these two deities in both religions, which are fascinating because the deity Murugan. And the Christian religion is also the God in the deity meaning the Archangel Michael is a deity of war, against evil, he fights against evil, and he is also the Deity, or the angel, who’s known as a healing Angel. And same with Murugan, in the Indian tradition, so the reason I bring that up is my life is, in many ways, been blessed in many ways by both of those deities, because I tend to want to expose and fight against injustice. But I also have a deep, deep relationship to health and healing.
My grandmother was a traditional healer, she could observe your face, as I’ve talked about, figure out what’s going on your body, and then she would come up with the right medicine, for the right person, at the right time. And I also have been grown up in the Indian caste system as a child. I was very deeply upset by it, but also deeply curious why there was this kind of injustice. And that led me also on the journey to understand Truth, Freedom and Health. And that’s intertwined in my study of systems. So when you step back, and take a Systems Approach, fascinatingly enough, what you’ll find is that a Systems Approach actually gives you the basis to understand politics. How the world operates, but also gives you an understanding of how health works, how your body works. It’s fascinating because the same principles that govern your body as a system are the same principles that govern everything in the world as a system, even political systems. So life has brought me after 57 years into this very interesting point, where I’ve been able to gather all this knowledge, but not only gathered and learn it, but also in a more profound way been able to distil it in such a way that I can share it with you. And that’s why I really enjoyed doing this. People wonder how I do it, I get up at five in the morning, and I work until around midnight. Because I feel it’s a service that I can do, and I can have some effects. But more importantly, all of you can take this knowledge and you can become masters of it, you can help others. So it’s an opportunity for me to give back to all the great things that I was able to learn.
So today, we’re going to talk about the Healthcare system. Day before yesterday, we looked at Olive Leaf extract, how it affects the Immune System. And then yesterday, we looked at Molecular Hydrogen. So that was at the molecular level, at the health level. Now we’re going to go to a much higher level. And we’re going to look at the Healthcare System as a whole. So let’s just jump right into it. And I’m going to share with you a PowerPoint deck I put together as usual, we’ll cover some background information. So to help you put all this in context, alright. okay. So let’s start right into this. So again, we’re gonna do a systems analysis of the Healthcare System. Okay, we’re gonna do a systems analysis of the Healthcare System. So everyone really gets a deeper appreciation of how the Healthcare System works. Okay? And what you’re going to find here is that the Healthcare System is composed of, it’s not just one monolithic system, but it’s composed of many, many subsystems. So we’re going to, first of all give a background, I want to really entertain you to understand what is a Systems Approach? Okay, what do I mean by that, so I want to talk about that, then we’re going to look at the Truth, Freedom and Health movement, then we’re going to go look at what the goals of real health are, how Healthcare should be, or was. Then we’re gonna go and study the goals of fake health, then we’re gonna go see how Healthcare works today. Then we’re gonna review CytoSolve, which is a solution to really look at the problems that pharma has and how they produce drugs. And they’re going to talk about GPOs, and PGMs. And then we’re going to end with what is to be done. So you have a pretty detailed show going on today. So let’s give a background. Now, first of all, many of you know that I do a number of things, if you go to vashiva.com, you know, from inventing the world’s first Email system. Any controversy about my inventing Email, comes really down to the fact that people have a lack of understanding. I never claimed to invent electronic messaging. But I created the Email the system, as we know it today. There’s nothing here saying that I created electronic messaging, but I did create Email, the system. So I just want people to be clear that from a systems perspective, that’s what we’re talking about Email as a system, as we know it today. Okay. So that’s one of the key elements I want to talk about. The second thing is CytoSolve, is a new technology system that I’ve also created. And CytoSolve really helps us to understand Molecular Systems. And we did that with the Olive Leaf Extract, etc. But it’s a very different kind of system. But we can literally use CytoSolve to model molecular pathways. Now, I want to talk about the opposite of a Systems Approach. Some of you may remember this slide. This is about the story of the king, who brings the five blind men to touch an elephant. And each one of them is touching different parts of the elephant. And none of them really knows about the whole, so they just see different pieces of it. And if you were to put it all together, you’d get something that looks like this. Because the guy who touches the tusks thinks he’s touching a spear, the guy touches the ear, thinks he’s touching a fan, and the guy who touches the side thinks it’s a wall and the guy touches the feet or the legs, thinks he’s touching an oak tree and a rope and so on. So this is what unfortunately occurs in medicine today, because it’s a blinded approach to understanding the whole. People don’t look at the whole, they look at the parts. And scientifically, you end up with this kind of stuff, you don’t get a Systems Approach. So this is the opposite of a Systems Approach. So just I just hope you are clear about that. Alright. So a Systems Approach. I’ve been an engineering systems guy for a long time. But I was very interested in this system, which is Western way of looking at biology, which is your genes and proteins, and RNA and regulatory motifs and metabolic pathways, functional modules and large scale organization. This is really the molecular system way of looking at the body from genes all the way up to the whole organism. Another way of looking at the body is this system, which is the Indian system of how the body is looked at. And this system is interesting because there’s a whole different language you see, we’re not talking about genes and proteins we talked about Purusha, Prakriti, Sattwa, Rajas. This is the traditional system of Indian medicine, where you look at Vata, Pitta, Kapha, Koshas, Chakras. Now to the Western guy who looked at this, and says wow ‘this is a bunch of snake oil’. This is real science. And this will be seen as fake science. So after I finished my PhD, where I studied this, I was very curious, could I actually go and understand this because this is what my grandmother practiced. So could I link the west and the east here, this is the West, this is the East. So that took me on a journey back to India. This was on the front page of MIT when I won a very prestigious award, called the Fulbright scholarship to go back to India. And my proposal was that I wanted to connect East and West together. So that was my Fulbright scholarship.
Truth Freedom Health® Movement
And long story short, when I finished that, I made a major discovery and those of you who want to take my course, go to vashiva.com. We Just put this out there. So some of you know how to get access to it. If you go to vashiva.com/join, you can actually get access to the Foundations of Systems and I’ll talk more about this. So when I got back to the United States, I had figured out a way to understand the linkage between Eastern and Western systems. And I put that into a University Institute that I call Systems Health, everyone can go there. And that became really the foundation. This was back in 2010. And, I created a whole series of courses that doctors took, healers took, it was a way that I was able to bridge the Eastern and Western world. And so anyone who takes our Foundations of Systems course, as part of the Truth, Freedom Health, warrior training, gets access to this. So here, I created a whole set of courses where it was about integrating Eastern and Western. In fact, we offer a Master Certification program. If you go to SystemHealth.com, there’s a whole range of courses that you can take, if you want to take them all in one shot, you can do it over a couple of months. But there’s a whole range of courses on integrating systems of yoga, and herbs, and circadian rhythms, and meditation, and engineering systems theory. But it linkages East and West together. And you also get access to a portal where you can teach others, it’s it’s Learn, Teach and Serve model. You get a certification, a health systems certification. There’s also a Foundation’s course, which everyone on the Truth Freedom and Health warrior, when you sign up on vashiva.com you can get that at no cost as a part of supporting that program. So please take advantage of that. And we also have a systems medicine course where people are interested in learning different herbs. So anyway, when I got back from India, I created this whole series of courses connecting East and West, okay, so you can go check that out at SystemsHealth.com. And there’s also a book I wrote about Your Body, Your System, how it connected engineering systems, and your body is a system. So the reason I share that is, so what I had discovered was that when you look at the Western systems and the Eastern systems of medicine, there was a common language that could explain both. And that became the basis of Systems Health. And in fact, I was able to explain phenomena like acupuncture, phenomenon like why massage works, and all sorts of interesting things, linking Eastern medicine with Western medicine. So I hope you guys take advantage of that. So that was Systems Health, that was one part of the journey. The other part of the journey was that I had discovered something even more fundamental, okay, I discovered that all forces in nature are governed by what I call the systems of transport, conversion and storage. So, but these were fundamental forces of nature that keep appearing in engineering systems theory. So Western people get this and I, I understood the linkage between this and Eastern systems of medicine. And when you take Foundations of Systems, as a Truth, Freedom Health warrior,by going to vashiva.com/join to get into that, you get access to all that. But more importantly, from a political standpoint, I found out that transport, the forces of motion conversion, the forces of taking one form to another, the forces of storage were directly related to Truth, Freedom and Health. Truth was really about the conversion of ideas to scientific truths, freedom, you need science, you need science, for freedom for science to take place, open discourse, and health was really the storage of a structural part. So you can see, when you take the course, that Truth, Freedom and Health is directly related to transport, conversion, and storage. So it’s quite fascinating that these two worlds are actually related. So you can apply scientific theory to understand political theory. And that became the basis of the Truth, Freedom and Health movement, which many of you are starting to enjoy, take a part of. So when you go to vashiva.com/join, there’s a whole video that goes into that, and shares that in detail. This video really explains what the Truth Freedom and Health movement is about. Let me play that video. And it is really good and is really the guiding force. This video is sort of the mantra I like to play each time because you’ll understand when we talk about the Healthcare System. When we talk about the molecular system that there is a guiding force that connects all these systems to gather, whether it’s the molecular system, or the engineering system, they’re all interconnected in a profound way. So let me play that for people. So we get this out of the way. So you understand how these systems connect.
Alright, so that was really the foundational basis. So please go take advantage of vashiva.com and become a Truth Freedom and Health warrior for all the reasons we just shared. Let me go back to our slide set here. So the reason I give that background is because there’s a deep understanding of the interconnection of systems. That you can use it to understand political systems, you can use it to understand engineering systems, scientific systems. So let’s go back to this. Our goal here is to get people educated, we want to build community, and we want people to get activated. So when you login and become a Truth, Freedom Health warrior, you get access to a whole bunch of all those capabilities, you get access to knowledge, and this is in our data center. So that big tech can’t take us down. We have social media tools, we also have tools, and these are with it as well as activation tools. So you can get educated, where you can log into the Systems Health portal right here, when you go in, and you get really an understanding of what a goal is and how a system works. And this is basically two years of Engineering Control Systems theory, you can learn in a much faster way. I teach these courses every Monday evenings from 7-10 EST. So think about getting a couple of years worth of knowledge in a few hours, okay, very powerful stuff. Then you can use that systems knowledge, to learn how your body is a system, where you can apply a whole engineering approach to understand and ask yourself a set of questions, you’re going to understand how these forces of transport conversion storage reside in your body. And that’s that red. So, you can really figure out what kind of system you are from an engineering standpoint, you can then figure out how your system is off course, which is that black dot, you know how you’re doing today? Did you get enough sleep? Did you get enough, proper vegetables and fruits, etc, other nutrients that you need. And then you can figure out how you can use the levers of exercise, supplements, nutrition, to bring you back to you. These are basically systems forces, it’s a very different way of looking at the body as a system. And then also, there’s a whole range of books, you want to get access to the classic ‘System and Revolution’. This will really teach you the principles, how you can imbue systems and everything and what is a revolution.
And then you can take those approaches and all of this, you get basically when you either become a supporter or warrior. Everyone asks me Hey, Dr. Shiva, we want to help. And I said, if you want to help me get educated here, and here are the educational tools. Or you can just be a member. I’ll show you these are other tools and all of these tools that I’m going through anyway, everyone gets it who becomes a warrior. You get books, you get tools, and you get ways you can analyze your body as a system, it’s quite amazing. And then you can also get access to the education then I want you to build community with other people. So you don’t feel alone. There’s a whole forum, you can log into where people are discussing, this is again independent of big tech, where you can discuss different issues with people from vitamin D to vaccines. Openly without that feeling, you’re gonna get kicked off. And then there’s also a social media component. You can build your own Facebook like page, you can connect with groups, you can connect with other members, and then you can get activated. I want you guys there’s information handouts here flyers that you can do grassroots campaigns. So for example, on masks, there’s a three and a half by two inch card. You can print on the front of it. It’s called about building awareness of the risks of masks, then you can go share with people the real science of how oral health is directly related to Systems Health, what the public health implications are when you start wearing masks. why people should be getting proper dental coverage from their employers and tax credits. And then on the vaccine issue, we want to take it Beyond Vax Anti-Vax. It’s not really not about Pro or Anti, it’s about boosting immunity. I want to bring it to you know, this is not about vaccines for all, which is based on outdated immune science. It’s about right nutrition, friendship activities, this boosts immunity. And there’s no guarantee that vaccinations are going to build a strong Immune System and we talk about the public health implications. So anyone who contributes 100 bucks, you get all those tools, all those capabilities, and it’s a way that we use it to build the movement. Or you can just be a supporter or just sign on in as a member. And you don’t have to pay anything but you can be a member and you don’t have to contribute anything. Okay. Now, today, we’re going to be talking about something called Systems Visualization. I used to teach a course at MIT called Systems Visualization. Where I used to teach students, and we’re going to do that today with the Healthcare System. We’re going to look at the Healthcare System from the perspective of a system scientist. And we’re going to really draw out the Healthcare System.
So what we want to do, is to teach you today how you can look at a complex system, like can you understand Obamacare? How do you take a very complex system and understand it, so you can explain it to another person? That’s what I’m going to do today in the next 20 minutes, you’re going to understand how Healthcare was and how disastrous has become through some drawings. I have a drawing pad here that hopefully will have a good experience and you guys can see that so we’re going to walk through that today. And I want to give you a little bit of background on Systems Visualization. What is Systems Visualization? Systems Visualization is where you have a bunch of these circles, which represent an object. And the links are the relationships between the objects. So for example, you can have a cat, a dog and tail, a fish, water and a pet. And you see the linkages: a cat is a pet, a dog is a pet, a cat has a tail, the dog has a tail, a fish has a tail. So you can draw these diagrams. Here’s an example of looking at the earth, the fire and day and the sky. And you can draw a relationship between these objects. And you can right away See, hey, look, the earth here has a is like one of the influencer notes just from visually, what I used to teach this course my students used to do amazing systems, for example, they used to look at the interaction about information news, and the economy and how it affects the public how the news can actually affect the stock market, right? With PR releases and social networks and, and different things. And these diagrams are very, very valuable to understand interconnections. One of my students did this very interesting diagram, which he converted to an infographic to really understand the relation between food and the environment, and whether you should be a vegetarian or not. So very interesting analysis.
The Goals of Real Health
So first of all, what are the goals of real health? So what are the goals of real health? Let’s really think about that, I would argue that the real goals of real health are, you want to have resilience in your body, which means you can take a hit, and you can get stronger, you come back, just like if you go lift weights, right? Initially, you lift weights and you feel weak, you know, you’re you may you may be sore, but the next day you get stronger from it. Okay? So, that’s a way that you can build resilience. Strength is the ability, you know, to move an object, right? The amount of force, if your body weighs a certain amount, how much you can lift relative to your body, you know, there’s a lot of measures of strength. And then the other piece of this is that you want to, let’s say, have a strong immune system, which is related to resilience. So there’s a number of ways to look at health, but one of the goals of real health is we want to be strong enough, so we can fight for freedom. And with that freedom, we can get truth. And with that truth, we can find real problems and real solutions to health. That’s our goal, right? Our goal is to get Truth, Freedom and Health.
How Healthcare Should Be (or Was)
Now, what is the goal of the opposition, this also needs to be understood. Their goal is power, profit and control. So let me just sort of switch over to this drawing here that I want to do. And, we’re really going to talk about how Healthcare was. So how was Healthcare? This is what we’re going to do, then we’re going to go talk about the goals of fake health. And then we’re going to look at, you know how Healthcare works today. So that’s how we’re gonna walk, we’re gonna look at what are the goals of real health, how the Healthcare System was, the goals of fake health and how the Healthcare system works today. And then we’re going to talk about something called GPOs and PGMs. Then we’re going to talk about CytoSolve. And then what is to be done. Okay, we’re gonna talk about solutions here. So there’s no reason to get concerned that there’s no solution. So I’m going to stop the PowerPoint right now. And I’m going to switch over, because I think this may take up a lot of memory. So first of all, what is healthcare supposed to look like? Well, I’m just going to draw very simply what the Healthcare System should look like, okay? And then we’re going to expand it to where it is today.
So if we look carefully here, we have a Healthcare System today. Okay, we have what it was before. I am drawing an individual here. This was you, and you were quite actually happy in this old system. And the old system was, we’re here were your doctors. All right. So here’s your doctor could be your family doctor. And, you know, and here was the hospital. God forbid, you had to go there. And in this system, the idea was that most of your efforts were to keep out of the hospital, right, most of your efforts were handled by your doctor, so 80% of things could be handled by the family practitioner, This is the old model. This is how things were. By the family practitioner over here. And then 20% of things, God forbid something happen, it says 80 to 90% of things were handled by your family practitioner. Now this was, you know, maybe 10-20% were done by the hospital. So you had access to doctors directly, your family practitioner, typically these people knew you for a long period of time. And over here, you had your access to medicines. And this was your, this was your RX. And this was a script your doctor would write and you go pick it up at the local pharmacy. This is your local pharmacy. And then you also had good access to local Farm grown food. So,if you really look at it, this was really the simple way that there was nothing in between you and your family here. And wherever your loved one was, and this is your family here, and access to your family practitioner, your hospital. And this is really true all the way up to even about, you know, early 1970. Okay, this is how most people operated. And, and this was before, Big Healthcare, Big Insurance, etc. Okay, everyone is clear on that? It was very, very simple. And doctors used to, in fact, visit your homes. And the model here was, it was a very simple model. Your doctor typically knew you for many, many years. And your doctors knew your family. The doctor came to your home, it was very simple. And the concept of a specialist was not the modus operandi, right? So, these specialists were over here, right? In the hospitals, these were where your specialists were, or they had, but most of it was run by your family practitioner. So this was the, you know, the traditional model, that was really the traditional model of Healthcare.
The Goals of Fake Health
Now, let’s look at what has happened since then, what has actually happened and so let’s really look at what’s happened. Now, it’s going to get very, very interesting what I’m going to share with you here. What I’m going to show you here is really how the modern Obamacare System really works. Okay? And just follow, because I think you’re gonna enjoy this a lot, because you’re going to be able to really understand what’s taken place. So what has actually happened is the following, right? So now, before, we had this very nice, simple system of healthcare, and what’s happened now? And now, this entire system’s goal is not Truth, Freedom and Health, but it’s power, profit and control. You’re going to see that. So what happens today? So over here is your doctor, he’s still over here. And remember, a doctor had to go through a lot, before he could become a doctor. He had to go through multiple steps over here. Okay? Do it like this. First of all, he had to go to medical school. And they need to go to undergraduate. So this was these were schools yet to attend to to go to undergraduate school, and they need to go to medical school. And so by the time he went through this to become a doctor, right? an MD, he’s got already the doctors already got about $250,000 in loans, okay. So just think about that. By the time your doctor has gone through medical school, now he has a massive, massive loan burden. The doctors have a massive loan burden. And now, as you’re gonna see, by the time they come out of medical school, because of all the stuff you’re gonna see in between, most of them cannot be family practitioners anymore. Okay? They have to go and work in large hospitals and you’re gonna see why. Okay, but here, the doctor, as you’re gonna find is coming out of medical school. And he already has lots of loans over here. All right, so that’s one piece. The other thing is over here. You have your medical supply companies. And like J&J is one of them, right? You have a whole bunch of companies like this. Okay. What do the medical supply companies do? Well, they make supplies they make, you know, bed pans, for example, That’s used in the hospitals, they make catheters, okay. They make masks and so on. These are your medical supply companies, and we’ll come back to them, right. But these guys are there. And over here. You have your what you call your drug companies, right? They’re producing drugs. And this includes Pfizer, right? includes, you know, Eli Lilly, okay. This includes biotech companies, right? This is what you would call, your big pharma. Big Pharma. And Big Pharma produces things like insulin, right? ibuprofen, right? aspirin, right? Lipitor, okay, they produce these drugs. And over here, now, I’m gonna come back to the food piece. But anyway, you have these different kinds of guys over here. We’re producing all different kinds of things, right? So you have these different things her, you have your doctors, you have your medical supply companies and your drugs. And you know, you need access to them. In the old model, you would directly access these people, very little middlemen.
How Healthcare Works Today
But what has happened today, is that if you want to access a doctor, you don’t have as most doctors today, work in something called a hospital, okay. They work in hospitals. Why? Because as I mentioned, they have this 250k loan. So it’s hard for them to go work independently. So they go to work in a hospital. They’re still family practitioners, but they’re getting rare. So they have to go to work in the hospital. And what you also have over here, you have now pharmacies, right? Big pharmacies, pharmacies, and these are not your local drugstore. They’re the CVS. They’re the Walgreens, okay? Etc. So they’re, they’re these big conglomerates, who are there, and you as a person, how do you get to the doctor? Well, you know, you it’s harder and harder to go to this, you know, local family practitioner, right. This is your family practitioner. These guys also, you know, as I mentioned, they have to go to the hospital. So how do you get access to hospitals? How do you get access to the medicine you need? How do you do this? Well, you don’t really go directly anywhere to get to your doctor, you have something that’s come between you and them, I’m going to call this Okay, insurance companies. So because of the high costs, everyone gets insurance, and we’ll come back to this okay. So what do you do? You pay the insurance company, some premium. And they give you what’s called insurance, right? Everyone following along? Okay, they give you insurance. That’s what goes on today. And then in this model, what happens is that this process of insurance gives you access to the hospital. And it gives you access to get your pharmacy. And these guys give you, you know, your pill, right? Whatever that pill is. And these guys give you care. Okay, this is how it works. But you have to go through what’s called insurance.
Now, what’s going on is quite fascinating. So remember, you need to get through the doctor, the medical supplies. So how does that happen? Well, it turns out between the medical, how does a medical supply stuff get to the hospital? How do the drugs get to the pharmacy? Well, it turns out there are now people here, called distributors, distributors. There are people called distributors, these distributors are between the medical supply companies and the drug companies. So if you’re one of the drug companies, you don’t just get your drugs put in the pharmacy, you need to go through a distributor. So you have to find a distributor who will distribute your drugs. Same with the medical supply companies, they have to go through distributors here. Okay. The distributors now this is where it gets very interesting. Now we’re going to talk about GPOs and PBMs. I hope everyone’s keeping following along here. So what happens here is quite fascinating now. So in order for these people, okay, to get their stuff to the hospitals. There’s something interesting that’s developed. That’s there’s some middlemen, I’m going to draw them in blue here. There’s middlemen that have come in between. And one of the middlemen right here is called GPO’s. And other middlemen here are called the PBMs. These are called group purchasing organizations, these are pharmacy benefit managers. I’ll write it over here. Pharmacy benefit managers. And these are group purchasing organizations. So,in order for any of the bedpans to show up in the hospital, it goes to one of these GPOs. Okay, in order for a drug to get to the pharmacy, it goes to these guys, and these guys deliver, okay. So on. So these middlemen exist.
So again, let me repeat in order for a medical supply here, to go get into the hospitals, it’s got to go through a GPO. In order for a drug to get into the pharmacy, it’s got to go through a PBM. So you have this very, very interesting phenomena here. So who are GPOs and PBMs? And how did they come into existence? So let me talk a little bit about that. Okay. So the way all of this happened, the way this happened was, up until the 70s. Let’s say there were lots and lots of hospitals. Let’s say everyone here listening, all 300 of us, 400 of us were each running our own hospital. Okay. Imagine you or let’s say everyone here is buying a bedpan or or bed sheets or you know, a pillow, let’s say pillows costing you 10 bucks, right? So instead of all of us running 10 bucks, we decided to come together and we decided to hire someone to be a group purchaser, like the Costco model. And that purchaser would go to the pillow maker and say, Look, I got 250 hospitals who want to buy a pillow, so don’t charge me 10 bucks. He’s to get the price down. Let’s say $2. Okay. And so you would get an $8, all of the hospitals got a better benefit. And that guy was paid a salary by everyone, he was a group purchaser, you purchase for the group. Well, and the same thing happened on the pharmacy side, okay, pharmacies got together, and they hired a pharmacy benefit manager who would buy drugs through the distributors. Now what happened was, as time went on, many of these GPOs and PBMs, they started consolidating, they started becoming bigger. And there were a few GPOs and a few PBMs. And they said, Wait a minute, we are controlling the supply of goods from the medical supply companies, a case of GPOs to the hospitals, in the case of the PBMs are controlling the supply chain of drugs, through the distributors to the pharmacies. And these guys, by the way, didn’t really own anything. They were basically middlemen who wrote the contracts. Alright, so getting back to this, the contracts that they wrote here, no one really knows the extent of those contracts. Okay, no one really understood the details of those contracts.
But what people knew, was that these contracts were very, very opaque, meaning no one knew what they were. And so every product that got here, got really marked up by these GPOs, okay. And what these GPOs ended up doing overtime was they said, okay, that same pillow, let’s say the GPO is into that same pillow, which was they’re getting two bucks, they started controlling the supply, they didn’t give the $8 benefit, maybe they kept that pillow at seven bucks. And they gave kickbacks to the hospital administrators sort of, you know, shush money, or they gave them little spiffs, you know, vacations to seven star hotels, and so on. And that happened on both sides. So what ended up happening is, the cost goes up, people are being brought out here to keep the costs high. And so today, what’s happened is, there are basically on the GPO side, there are now consolidated three GPOs. And three PBMs. Okay, and what’s, so what happens today is on so that’s, that’s what’s happened on both sides. Now, when you go to a hospital, and you, you can get your medicine at the hospital, so you’re in the bed there, and the doctor can give you an IV, and there’s a cost for that, or let’s say gives you simply aspirin, the cost of that in the hospital of five cents, a five cents, aspirin will be being selling for $50. Okay? That’s so it’s a cost. And that’s what’s happening in these hospitals. The costs are being escalated, everything is increased because of the supply chain or GPOs. So let me give you an example. One of my friends who’s a gastroenterologist told me recently that he was, you know, he was in an interesting situation. He had a patient who needed a procedure, and he said, Look, you don’t need to come into the hospital and do inpatient, which means stay there for three or four days, just go get a hotel room at the local Best Western you can come in outpatient come in for the procedure, and you can leave 130 bucks for the hotel room for one day, I’ll do the procedure be a couple 1000 bucks, guess what the insurance company would not let him do that. They said no, no, no, you can’t do that. He must come in inpatient. And that was a $30,000 bill versus a $3,000 bill, roughly $3,000 bill.
So why does that happen? That happens because the insurance companies want they’re in a cosy relationship. They want to keep the cost of health care high. They’re not interested in lowering the cost of healthcare why? Let’s go back to the diagram. Because when you look at this diagram, their goal is to make sure that their premium costs, you keep paying more for their premium, because out of fear, right? You end up buying more insurance. It’s a fear that drives you the fear, the risk of high prices. So the high prices are kept in place by the insurance companies. So you keep buying insurance over here. That’s what’s going on. They’re not incentivized to keep the prices low. What’s more interesting is that these pharmacy brokers now are consolidating the three major insurance companies, one of them is buying one of the GPOs and one of them is by one of the PBMs. Another one is buying another one of the GPOS, another one is buying another one of the PBMs. And another one, is buying the other remaining GPO and the other one is buying the other remaining PBM. So what you have going on is that the insurance companies are consolidating, they’re going to own the GPOs and the PBMs. So there’s going to be price opacity, which means no one will know what’s going on. And by the way, the markup on this, all of this process, when you look at this is around $500 billion in the markup right here, that’s a half a trillion dollars in costs, that just occurs because of these GPOs, right here. And these PBMs over here.
So what are you looking at? So when you look at this mess, right? What was supposed to be a very simple system. This is Obamacare, this is the modern Healthcare System. You essentially have the collusion among all of these people over here. All of these guys, including the distributors now, have come in the way of you and your doctor, you and medicine and you, and supplies, we haven’t even talked about food yet we can do a whole thing on food. So this is what’s happened. This is why the cost of healthcare is high because we have institutionalised corruption. What do I mean by that? What’s happened is in 1990, and 2000. In the 2000s, Congress allowed these GPOs and PGMs a “Safe Harbor Act”, where they were allowed to give kickbacks to hospitals. GPOs and PBMs, are allowed to give kickbacks, or repeat that again, in the 1990s. In 2000, as starting the 70s, as a consolidation of big insurance, big hospitals and Big Pharma took place. These GPOs and PGMs were allowed to give kickbacks literally they were allowed to perform legalized corruption with the Safe Harbor Act, one in 1990s, and the other in 2000, you can look that up. So fundamentally, what we have is the consolidation of Big Pharma, big hospitals and big insurance. But the real enemies here of people are the GPOs and the PBMs. Group, purchasing organizations and PBMs. They should all be eliminated. They don’t own anything. They don’t make anything. They don’t make drugs. They don’t make medical supplies. They don’t run hospitals, they don’t even run the pharmacy. They’re just middlemen who write the contracts. And as you can see, this has evolved initially, they were just supposed to get lower costs for the hospitals, lower costs for the pharmacies, and over time, they just became networkers, big guys. And you know, smoking their cigars and backroom striking deals. They just own contracts. That’s all they own. Quite interesting. You won’t hear this in any of the healthcare discussions. Has anyone heard of GPOs and PBMs? Anyone? Okay, so the GPOs and the PBMs came out of the modern Healthcare System. This is what we have. We have this process here that takes place right now. Someone just said Romney. Exactly. This is “Romneycare”. It wasn’t even Obama in many ways. It was Romney who did this.
Okay. So GPOs and PBMs are the real culprits here. And we’ll summarize here, okay. So having understood that, let’s clear this. So what you find is, the fundamental issues there, they want power, profit and control. We want Truth, Freedom, and Health. And when you take the course, right, you’ll find out that in order to have Truth, Freedom and Health, you need something called transparency. One of the six inputs you’ll learn about this is one of the six things you need. So they don’t want transparency. This is why they have GPOs and PBMs. These are used, PBMs,they’re used for opacity. Okay to hide things, hide the prices, high costs. And Opacity is not equal. Okay? It’s not equal to transparency. In fact, it’s the antithesis of it. Okay. So they want opacity, we want transparency. And the only way we’re going to get this
What Is To Be Done?
I’m going to talk about the solution is if we go to what’s called direct primary care DPC. DPC. So what is Direct Primary Care? This is really the solution. Okay. So what does this look like? So what does DPC mean? Let’s talk about that. So, DPC literally means that we go back to an environment, all right, where we know who our physician is, and we start having a direct relationship with that physician, let me explain. So there was a time as I mentioned, we’re used to know your doctor and you went to your health care practitioner. So there’s a movement now, among a bunch of doctors to say, Look, I don’t take insurance, don’t give me insurance, just pay me $75 a month, there’s a guy up in Marblehead, his name is Jeff Gold. And what Jeff says is, look, pay me 75 bucks a month, I’m only going to take on 500 patients in a whole year. And that’s 7500 will cover my costs, I’ll make money, I can have a couple of nurses, etc. He doesn’t want to get he’s not greedy, but people pay out of pocket. And he’s there for you to handle like 80-90% of your things. He’s there for you. And then the other thing is you spend another $125 for crisis insurance, like no different than if your car got in a collision, horrible knock on wood, that doesn’t happen to anyone. And that is for crisis care. And that comes to about 200 bucks a month. So 2400 bucks a year, you take care of your healthcare. And the goal there is to incentivize you to choose your doctor wisely to take care of your health for prevention. And God forbid something happens. In that 20% case, you go to the doctor. So what does that look like? I hope that makes sense. Does that make sense to everyone? So there is a growing database of these DPS. Pay what you can afford. Okay. So let me let me go back to this. And look at what that looks like here. And let me just summarize that. So let’s say this. And we’re talking about here is, you basically go, you get a direct primary care physician. This is the solution now. Direct primary care physician, they’re going to take care of 80% of your needs. And you pay around $75 per month, out of pocket. right? So just like a good mechanic, you choose your doctors wisely, then you pay for crisis care, insurance. And this would be for the 20% of your needs. And this will be let’s say 125 a month, it could be higher or lower, but it’s in this range. And this comes out to a total of $200 a month, $2400 a year. But what you’re incenting is prevention. You have a direct relationship. No middlemen. You pay for what you use. For what you need actually, lower costs, better care. Okay. So that’s the key solution here. So it’s crisis insurance. That’s what you focus on.
Because, you know, and you use it for the hospital case where you need it, but you’re not putting everything over here. Their models to have us their model. This is their model to have us in this fear based model. Okay. That’s not what we want to do. We want to drive people to have this 80% relationship with their primary care, doctor. All right. That’s what we’re talking about. So I think the takeaway that you need to understand is that the key takeaway is that the insurance companies, this is what took me a while to figure this out when I was unraveling the saying, the insurance companies. I thought, wow, they want to lower costs, they don’t. They want to keep the costs high. That’s why in that case, where the gastroenterologist, my friend, was forced to bring in the guy in patient, because then the hospitals make money. The GPOs make money, right? Everyone makes money, because now they can charge for a .05 cent aspirin, 50 bucks. GPOs are making money, distributors are making money, big pharma making money, particularly the GPOs because then they’re getting all kickbacks. Think about the COVID crisis. You know, people are getting money, I think $13,000 for a COVID diagnosis. And the ventilator guys, we’re selling ventilators like wildfire, right? So the incentive model is for the hospital administrators. They’re the ones who are making all the moolah they work with the GPOs. Right? They want to keep prices high. Once you understand this, that’s where the real issue is. The real issue here is they want to keep prices high. Okay? They want to keep prices high. But the bottom line is the costs are too high. There’s no reason that you go to the emergency room. And if you look at the bill is 50 bucks for that aspirin, if you actually could get a hold of that bill. And now with the GPOs and PBMs. They want to hide that.
What You Can Do
I wanted to share with you was that when you take a Systems Approach, and you rip this all apart, what you find is the GPOs and the PBMs are the real issues. And you won’t find Obama talking about this, you won’t find Biden talking about you won’t find Trump talking about this. None of them will talk about this. They’ll just talk about insurance, Romneycare but But what we’ve done right now is we’ve gone like a laser to the real issue. And this is why I want all of you to become Truth, Freedom and Health warriors, we need 50,000 Truth, Freedom and Health warriors on the ground. We need to build a movement where all of you can understand how to dissect a system. But you can’t do that without getting training in the Foundations of Systems. So go vashiva.com/warrior. And we’re building a platform, remember, we’re getting people educated on systems, we’re then building community and then we give you things you can do that you activate yourself, like the examples I gave you, like you can pass out, educate people on the real issue around vaccines, educate people on the real issue around masks, and so on. And we’ll have a card on this. But the idea is we need to uplift our fellow neighbors and our citizens. They’re all pretty good people, they just get hit by propaganda. And the only way to do this is to go on the ground with training. That’s why this VA Shiva platform is so important.
That’s why I stay awake until 12 midnight here doing this and I tried to do a video every day to educate you that you can take a Systems Approach. But the main intention of doing this is to inspire you, that if you start taking a Systems Approach, that if you get off your dilettante nature just trying to dabble or get confused. If you take the Foundations of Systems course, if you become a Truth, Freedom and Health warrior, you will start getting the chops, you’ll be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Summary
Alright, and in closing, what I want to share is, you know, one of the interesting things that I did for my PhD work was a great technology called CytoSolve. CytoSolve is a Systems Approach to modelling with eliminating the need for animal testing, using the computer to model very complex pathways, and I want to share that. I wanted to share with you the real idea of the solution here. So this one of the solutions that I just mentioned is going DPC, right, Direct Primary Care, and you get crisis care when you need it. The other part of the solution is to understand that we need to really go to the heart of why the cost of drugs is so high and I want to share that with you. So the reason the cost of drugs is so high is that the entire pharmaceutical, quote unquote, innovation process is old, okay? It’s about 100 years old. So let me share that with you. So what is that pharmaceutical quote unquote innovation process? Well at CytoSolve what we found is that when we looked at the pharmaceutical process, they typically find a drug, a synthetic compound, they spend about six years, you know, doing a lot of test tube tests and killing a lot of animals, which is not needed. In my view. There are other ways I’ll talk about, this takes six years, and they do clinical trials on humans. This takes another nine years. So it’s 5 billion to up to 5 billion in 13 years. And by the way, what comes out of this has many, many side effects. In fact, as you look at this graph, this, this, this is so costly, because they spend more and more and more money spending on R&D, and less and less and less unless new drugs are even being approved by the FDA. And this trend has not changed. Okay, more R&D spending less and less new drugs are being allowed by the FDA. So when I looked at, and this was one of the motivators, I was saying, well, they’re wasting money, they’re killing animals.
The other thing I noticed was in 1993, everyone thought that what made a human being different from a worm was a number of genes, we had about 100,000 genes, people thought, and we thought we knew a worm at 20,000. But when the genome project ended, it turned out we only have 20,000 genes, we have the same number of genes as a worm. So this flipped biology on its head in 2003, realize, we need to take a Systems Approach. So it’s not just the genes, it’s the proteins, it’s the cells in order to understand the whole human being. So the idea was, imagine if you could take the cell, besides a nucleus, Imagine being able to model all the molecular pathways inside the cell. And this is what a little molecular pathway looks like. And there’s hundreds of 1000s these potentially millions, Imagine being able to mathematically model it and connect them together. And that was really what CytoSolve really allows us to do. So I can take very complex, I can take the literature, mine it, I can model diseases on the computer, model phenomenon. I published many papers on this. So this means we can take compounds, model it on the computer long before we even do any cell testing. And this is how we build airplanes, right? We do everything on the computer long before we do people in test flights.
So by way of example, here’s a guy mashing a bunch of stuff together in the traditional systems of medicine. And if you ask him, how did you come up with this, it’s hard for him to explain. But with CytoSolve, let’s say here’s turmeric, we can model all the molecular pathways of turmeric that stops inflammation. For example, look at our resveratrol, which is the skin of red grapes, how that stops. By the way, this is a root. This is the skin of red grapes. And you can see where that interconnects, CytoSolve lets you do that. And we can understand the combination. This is a synergy of, of system sites. This column represents an inflammatory marker called a cytokine. So I’m not giving any curcumin, any resveratrol I have high inflammation, right, then I just give curcumin, notice the inflammation drops. When I get five units of it. If I just get resveratrol, it drops from point .15 to .06. But look what happens here, when I reduce this by 40% of this by 60%. But still keep the overall five, I get even a better effect. This is called a synergistic combination. This is why System Science is so important. Because just like I showed you with the Healthcare System, it’s not just any one thing. It’s the distributors. It’s the hospitals. It’s the GPOs. It’s the PGMs, right, but you can see the combinations of the GPOs and the PBMs really escalate the cost of healthcare. Here, what we’re seeing is we can use CytoSolve to understand how the combination of resveratrol and curcumin has a very positive effect, a little less of this than what you originally gave the whole amount less of this, the whole matter referred to it as a synergistic effect. So systems thinking, which is what we teach, will help you see Oh, if I build a Truth, Freedom Health movement, but I got 50,000 people all working together, we start creating a synergistic reaction. Okay, I hope that helps.
Just to give you some exciting news, we’ve used this approach. I have my first product coming out where we literally use CytoSolve to look really at 50 billion, close to 50 billion to 100 billion combinations of all different types of dosages of ingredients. And we have found a very powerful ingredient called Mv25. I never thought I’d get into this but over the last 16 years of doing this we found out we could do better than anyone else. And we have a US patent on it, which allows us to really support pain and discomfort. And as you can see the back of the bottle and this is coming out. end of March. It really talks about the fact that we reviewed over, you know, 68 papers across four decades of research across 68 research institutions, and we did trillions of sorry, trillions of potential combinations to come up with this product. You know, it’s Clean Certified. It’s, you know, a vegetarian base. And so this product is coming out. And I hope you guys take care, look into it at vashiva.com, go check it out, okay. But it’s an amazing tool, because we’re using this to really understand synergy. And that’s what System Science teaches us. It’s not any one thing, but it’s a combination of things.
So in closing, what is to be done, when you realize what we need to do is now that we understand it’s a GPOs and the PBMs. Just like we understand curcumin and resveratrol can have a powerful effect, we understand GPOs and be PBMs can have a negative effect on really escalating costs, what we need to do is we need to build a bottoms-up movement at the local level, we need to build a bottoms up movement, which drives goes back to simple ways direct relationships with our doctors, we need to all start going out of pocket guys. And then we need to find the crisis care model. So we lower the cost of healthcare. And from a legislative standpoint, while we’re doing that, on our own, we should ensure that the Safe Harbour Act of the 90s and 2000 is reversed. So we eliminate these GPOs and PBMs. That’s what needs to be done.
That’s what really needs to be done. But remember, don’t trust politicians, they’re not going to do anything, what we need to do is we need to take matters into our own hands and build a movement that’s found that has the right political theory, that’s what you get with the Foundations of Systems. When you become a Truth, Freedom and Health warrior, that’s why I want you to do that. Otherwise, you’re just gonna be flailing around when you need the right political theory. Second, we need to build a community so you don’t feel alone. And we’ve done that independent of big tech on vashiva.com. And then finally, you need to do things in your local neighbourhoods, in your local communities, educate people on masks, we have a card and that educates people on vaccines. It’s about personalized health, educate people on election integrity. So our goal is we will produce those tools for you. So you can have conversations with people and go Bottoms-up. So anyway, I hope this was valuable. And it helps you understand that you can take a Systems Approach to anything.
So in closing, Don’t do it for me. Do it for you, because the world is in such a situation that the left and right Republican and Democrat are the ones who control things do not be confused. Do not think any of these politicians are going to help you. They control elections. We have selections, not elections, the only way forward is to build a bottoms-up movement, and you cannot build a bottoms-up movement without having the right political theory and the right revolutionary physics. Okay. So go to vashiva.com/join Join this movement, connect with other people, really smart people who are smart not just because they have education, but smart because they’re recognizing that it’s important to have the right physics. Okay, so please do that. Please do that for yourself. And I hope this information was valuable. Thank you everyone. Be well, thank you.
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