Healthcare on the Joe Rogan Experience

“our life expectancy in America is lower than it is in other major countries. You know that? Yes. It's four years younger than, four years shorter life spans th…”

US life expectancy is about four years shorter than in other wealthy countries, and working-class Americans live about seven years less than the top 1 percent.

“This is another part of the story, is that doctor's likely to lose $250,000 a year if they don't do that because there's incentive given to hospitals and docto…”

Humphries claims a doctor is likely to lose $250,000 a year if they do not follow ACIP vaccine recommendations because of financial incentives to hospitals and doctors.

“Why do we have 85 million people who are uninsured or uninsured?”

Eighty-five million people in the US are uninsured or underinsured.

“And the tax burden for health care for illegals was supposed to be 3 billion. I think they now estimate it's 9 billion. But that number will scale to infinity.”

Musk claims California's free healthcare for undocumented immigrants was projected to cost $3 billion but is now estimated at $9 billion, calling it a magnet for illegal immigration.

“So there's more hospice care in Los Angeles than the entire rest of the country combined. It's all fraudulent. And we're just pumping hundreds of millions of d…”

Kennedy claims Los Angeles alone has more hospice care providers/capacity than the rest of the entire United States combined, and nearly all of it is fraudulent, tied to Russian-run schemes.

“Of course, the gender affirming clinics that have popped up all over the country since 2007. You see the map of it. It's fucking bananas.”

Carlson claims gender-affirming clinics for minors proliferated across the US starting in 2007 in a dramatic, mapped expansion.

“The drug cost $4,000. Now, I think it costs something like $600.”

Kennedy claims an IVF drug purchased through TrumpRx dropped in price from $4,000 to about $600.

“We lose just in Medicaid and Medicare $100 billion a year. And it's all just this really shocking, blatant fraud Where it's become industrialized.”

Kennedy claims the US loses at least $100 billion a year to fraud in Medicaid and Medicare combined.

“We found one hotel. It had 129 rooms, and everyone was a different company that was selling durable medical equipment. And we go in and shut them down, and the…”

Kennedy claims HHS found a 129-room hotel where every room housed a different shell company committing durable medical equipment fraud, run by the Cuban government.

“In 1965, without the technology we have today, they implemented Medicare. 19 million people, elderly people, signed up in the first year.”

Sanders claims 19 million elderly people signed up for Medicare in its first year after it was implemented in 1965.

“a great nation when we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality, when 87 million people can't afford to go to a doctor today.”

Sanders claims 87 million people in America cannot afford to go to a doctor.

“Over the last 20 years, the drug companies alone have spent $4.5 billion in 20 years on lobbying and campaign contributions.”

Sanders claims pharmaceutical companies spent $4.5 billion on lobbying and campaign contributions over the preceding 20 years.

“We bought insulin in Windsor, Ontario for one tenth the price, 10% of the price, same exact product being charged in America.”

Sanders claims insulin bought in Windsor, Ontario cost one-tenth (10%) of the U.S. price for the identical product.

“How is it possible that we pay ten times more for insulin in this country and for other drugs than the one in Canada or countries around the world?”

Sanders claims Americans pay ten times more than Canadians and other countries for insulin and other drugs generally.