13-30 An Unbelievable Number | Oregon’s Healthcare Transformation
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Show 13-30 Summary: Lisa Lettenmaier, a former accountant and current insurance expert, has been tracking Oregon’s healthcare system for decades. We take a deep dive with her into Oregon’s healthcare system and the completely unsustainable path its on — unless you want to eventually spend every penny on “free” healthcare.
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Original Air Dates: July 29th & 30th, 2023 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier
This Week – Oregon’s Healthcare is Unsustainable
This week, we’re looking into Oregon’s health care system. And, in particular, the tidal wave of spending, endless spending, we’re dumping into what Oregon thinks is a “free” system. Or that’s the goal. It will just take a few hundred billion to get there — and another few hundred billion to keep up the illusion of “free.”
Oh, and doctors are looking to form a union. Because that always makes government expenditures go down, right? Yikes.
We talk with Lisa Lettenmaier, our go-to expert on insurance as well as the inner workings and financial health of the healthcare system.
Diagnosis: the patient is sick.
Oregon’s Healthcare Transformation
There’s a saying I’m sure you know: “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” Along those lines, “Those who do not learn from Oregon are doomed to repeat its mistakes.”
Oregon’s forest management polices often lead to more forest fires. Which is stupid because all we need to do is to do something. Like the most obvious: open the forests up and let timber companies harvest — especially in areas prone to fires. Plus the government makes money. Twice. They get a payment from the sales of timber and they get all those taxes from good-paying jobs and companies making profits.
But the government would rather not do that (logging sounds like hard work) so they would rather spend money on putting out forest fires than make money doing things that would prevent the problem.
Oregon is pretty much setting its health care system on fire. And, once again, it’s a problem they caused — and then they set it on fire.
Tune in to find out just how bad it all is. Yes, the state of Oregon’s healthcare system will make you sick.
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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info
- Lisa Lettenmaier’s company is Health Source NW. You’re going to pay the same rates whether you buy directly or through Lisa, so why not get the expertise you need to find the plan you want?
- Main article discussed: New public health care for 100,000 Oregonians would raise private insurance costs (OPB, July 10, 2023), can’t go unanswered.
- Realities Health and Ins Co are dealing with: Planned Parenthood Billboard Portrays Virginity as ‘Outdated’ and ‘Patriarchal’ (Epoch Times, July 21, 2023)
- America’s STD explosion laid bare (Daily Mail, July 23, 2023)
- Carbon Footprint’ of Treating Patients Is Too Big (Slay, July 22, 2023)
- Oregon Doctors seek to form a union (Oregon Catalyst, July 17, 2023)
- WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)
- Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)
- Alarming: “Ed Dowd Drops Bombshell Data: Hematological (Blood-Related) Claims Up 522% Above Trend in 2022” (Gateway Pundit, July 24, 2023)
- If these data are any indication of where society’s health is headed, this is deeply worrisome as millions of people will become disabled