Chronically Human Podcast

Steve Ariens joins us today. He is better known online as Pharmacist Steve.  Steve has been a licensed pharmacist for over 50 years. He's worked at hospitals, nursing homes, and he owned and operated an independent pharmacy for 20 years. Since retiring he has dedicated his time to documenting how the response to the opioid crisis has hurt chonic pain patients. This is is a personal issue for Steve as well, his wife has been a chronic pain pateint for over 20 years.  We discuss the origins of the opioid crisis, who are profiting from it,  how those in pain are suffering from the government and corporate medicine's reponsed to it, and how government intervention into the healthcare market and specifically the War on Drugs, have led to many of the problems we are facing today.  Check out his incredible blog at:  http://www.pharmaciststeve.com and follow him on Twitter as well as on Facebook @Pharmaciststeve  https://www.facebook.com/pharmaciststeve You can check out the show notes a

Dr. William Anderson joins us today. He  is a professor of economics at Frostburg State University, Senior Fellow at The Mises Institute and he’s been studying and writing about Austrian Economics since 1981.  We discuss his latest article “AOC’s Green New Deal and The Great Leap Forward”. He explains why centrally planned economies  have never worked in the past and why they still won’t work today.  You can find a complete timeline,  links and shownotes from this episode go to: https://chronicallyhuman.co/2019/02/27/why-the-new-green-deal-wont-work-dr-william-anderson-chp-ep-17/  Dr. Anderson explains how The New Green Deal is based upon the same ideology of The Great Leap Forward in China, The Centrally Planned Economy of the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq in 2003. All of these government actions are based upon the idea of collectivism, which is a political philsophy that believes individuals, whether in the U.S. or other countrie

Dr. Leah Houston is our guest today. She is currently an Emergency Room doctor and co-founder of a company that's applying blockchain technology to help fix healthcare. She is co-founder of HPEC.io which is a tech company that helps doctors to create self-sovereign identies on the blockchain. This helps to reduce costs, prevent fraud and put the control of a doctor's identity back into their hand's. We discuss why centralization of healthcare is a threat to everyone's privacy and pockebook and how decetnralization can put the power back into the hands of the people. Dr. Houston and I discuss the history of Bitcoin, what is the blockchain, what are self-sovereign identities and how these technologies can cut healthcare costs, increase access and improve outcomes.  We also talk about the problem with third party payers and how along with burdensome regulations are causing doctors to burn out, quit their practices or even commit suicide.  Dr. Houston also relates why their is a doctor shortage and

Dr. Mary Ruwart joins me to talk about self-ownership, medical freedom and the seemingly radical idea of the Separation of Church and State. You can follow her work at: http://www.ruwart.com Dr. Ruwart is a very warm, compassionate and intelligent person who truly believes, as I do, that the principles of individual liberty are the best ideas to organize a society upon. We discuss her most recent book "Death By Regulation." http://www.ruwart.com/product/death-regulation Dr. Ruwart makes the compelling case that the increased FDA regulatory authority granted by the 1962 Drug Amendment Act has led to a stifling of innovation, the massive increase in drug costs and the death of nearly 15,000,000 Americans. http://www.ruwart.com/blog/a-1962-law-slowed-drug-development-changing-it-could-slash-drug-prices.html I've bashed big pharma many times in the past and our conversation made me reconsider redirecting the blame more toward the FDA and those laws that give it the authority which has created the modern drug ind

Judge Jim Gray is our guest today. He is a former prosecutor, a Judge in Orange Country California and best known for running as VP on teh Libertarian Presidential ticket in 2012.  He talks about how to end The War on Drugs, the libertarian case for Universal Basic Income, and how competition can help fix healthcare and education. Whatever your political beliefs maybe please take and listen and find out how the princples of freedom can be applied to the problems we all face.  For the complete show notes go to: https://chronicallyhuman.co/2019/02/13/the-chronically-human-ep-12-judge-jim-gray/ Let us know what you think.Brad Miller The Chronically Human Podcast