Another spitball sunday…
Spitball Sunday - a healthcare system not just a sickcare system. We have to get there. We are the out of runway like the picture I took as we summited a mountain recently (a “14er” - IYKYK) Lifestyle disease is bankrupting us. 75% of our $4.5t healthcare spend comes from 8 conditions that are traced back to mitochondrial disorder or in simplistic terms metabolic disorders thank you Robert Lustig for your episode on Andrew Huberman from December 2023 (btw obesity and metabolic disease are not synonymous) But I bet you haven’t worn a CGM yourself We need to realign our payment models - VBC 1.0 isn’t cutting it We need to rethink our primary care model and embrace new tools that can reduce bricks and mortar requirements and help with behavioral change We need to stop the silo between food and health We need to turn on the light for our society. You can’t fix a system predicated on sickness and lifespan we can only try to better align the two. We also need a healthcare system predicated on healthspan. I applaud the scores of people in the tribe creating this in all forms and fashions because it’s the incremental and the disruptive that we need. I’m grateful to be one of the tribe now with BP2 Health Health and having The Reverse Mullet Healthcare Podcast passion project as a platform to keep giving it a voice. If any Primary Care physicians want to be part of something in January we have a hail mary up our sleeves but our runway is almost up for this too…so reach out like now. Feby Abraham Martin Tull Neil M. Meltzer, MPH, MHA Gebre Nida MD, FACE, DipABLM Erin W. Martin Peter Njongwe Katie Stebbins Carter Williams Clint Brauer Robert Sundelius, FACHE Brie Lowry Cox John Beadle Manju Dawkins, MD Eric Smith Colby Schaeffer Arumani Manisundaram Padmaja Patel, MD, FACLM, Dip ABLM, LMI John D. Couris