Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

SOVEREIGNTY Of Health | Wellness Force #Podcast

12 Aug 2021 · 0 min

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Podcast conversation in which Josh Trent and a guest critique the current insurance-driven healthcare system (referred to as the "insurance pyramid"), express frustration and anger with that system, and advocate returning power to patients through restoring the doctor–patient relationship and adopting community-based models that allow individuals to control costs and choices. The speakers emphasize simplifying care, neighbor-to-neighbor support, and choosing what matters personally.

I've had a lot of anger, I've had a lot of resentment towards the insurance pyramid.
How do we get back to basics? How do we have that freedom and flexibility? And a lot of it is really bringing the doctor and patient relationship back together. You know, going to my doctor and I don't know what things cost and I don't know kind of what all my options are. He's just, I'm gonna hand a card, I'm gonna abdicate responsibility. He's, he's going to run whatever labs he thinks and then I'm going to get whatever result I will. That restored relationship, that, that unfettered opportunity to be directly in charge of your costs and choices and still experience like what you said that like neighbor to neighbor, people to people experience, which we are so hungry for more than ever. We're hungry to cut all the extra. If anything, last year taught us. It's like, man, who are your people? How do you simplify what's on the table that doesn't need to. What do I really want in my life? And I think what this allows you to do is to, to kind of choose those things.
But you know what message came through? Less anger, more truth. Exit systems that aren't necessarily serving us anymore or aren't directly serving us anymore and return back to this community based model.