Podcast appearances and mentions of katy talento

More proof the Biden years were filled with fraud!! PLUS, Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, discusses RFK Jr. taking on the Democrats' cash cow - Big Pharma. And Maureen Steele, co-founder of American Made Foundation, tells Shaun a disturbing story of parents who were jailed and a family that was destroyed for refusing the Vitamin K shot for their infant and her fight to abolish the Child Protective Services agencies across the board!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, discusses RFK Jr. taking on the Democrats' cash cow - Big Pharma.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Katy Talento, Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, joins to discuss the battle against big pharma, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Discussion of growing concerns with autism, obesity rates, and vaccines in children. How can we make the next generation healthy? Homeland Security continues their battle against cartel groups and terrorist organizations. Discussion of fighting drug cartels in Mexico, and cutting off the demand for black market drugs. Should we legalize Marijuana in the ongoing war?

Katy Talento, former White House health advisor and Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, joins the show to put health insurance giants under the MAHA spotlight. She breaks down how the industry operates, what they're getting away with, and why it's time for serious reform. 

On today's Quick Start podcast: NEWS: Mike Huckabee condemns an arson attack on a historic Christian church in the West Bank, calling it a "crime against the Holy" and raising questions about Israel's treatment of Christians. FOCUS STORY: A pastor reflects nearly 10 years later on the miraculous healing of a teen whose recovery stunned doctors and strengthened faith. MAIN THING: DOJ drops charges against a Utah doctor accused of swapping COVID vaccines for saline. Former White House health advisor Katy Talento explains why it matters. LAST THING: Luke 18:27 – “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” SHOW LINKS Faith in Culture: https://cbn.com/news/faith-culture Heaven Meets Earth PODCAST: https://cbn.com/lp/heaven-meets-earth NEWSMAKERS POD: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/newsmakers/id1724061454 Navigating Trump 2.0: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/navigating-trump-2-0/id1691121630

Join Dr. Jay and Brad as they interview Katy Talento.Katy Talento is an epidemiologist, a naturopath, a veteran health policy advisor and health benefits consultant. She is the founder and CEO of AllBetter Health, an insurgent benefits advisory firm building lower-cost, higher-quality health plans for employers. Prior to starting AllBetter, Katy was the health policy lead in the White House on the Domestic Policy Council where her portfolio included ending secret health care prices, lowering drug prices, expanding health IT interoperability, combating the opioid crisis, protecting conscience rights in health care and promoting bioethics in the life sciences.Katy has appeared on or been published in a number of media outlets, including CNN, CBN, Sky News, Newsmax, EWTN, The New York Times, The Hill, The Morning Consult, FoxNews.com, RealClearPolitics, and others. Prior to her White House appointment, Katy served five U.S. Senators over a 15-year period, including as top health advisor, legislative director and oversight investigator. She also worked in the private sector helping multinational energy companies protect their global workforce from occupational health threats, and served on the research faculty at Georgetown University School of Medicine.Katy spent two years in a Catholic religious order and has worked with vulnerable populations in East Africa, industrial Russia and inner city America. Katy received her undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Virginia, her Master of Science in Epidemiology degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and her Naturopathic Doctorate from the Energetic Wellness School of Naturopathy. A mother of two grown children, Katy lives in Leesburg,VA with her husband.To connect with Katy, visit her websites at ahcsm.org or allbetter.health. You can also check out her Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn @/katytalento. 

Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance for Health Care Sharing Ministries, talks to Shaun about the Democrat pushback on RFK Jr.'s efforts to Make America Healthy Again, the damage of Obamacare subsidies, and the importance of also fighting the demand side of addiction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Join Richard Harris and Katy Talento as they discuss the truth behind America's health crisis. Learn how the FDA and Pharma industries are failing Americans and why our diets are contributing to an ongoing health epidemic.   Join us in person at the Truth & Liberty Banquet: https://www.truthandliberty.net/award  Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.truthandliberty.net/subscribe   Get "Hope For The Future" here: https://info.truthandliberty.net/hope   Donate here: https://www.truthandliberty.net/donate   Original Air Date 01-31-25

President Trump isn't wasting any time, and America is already experiencing a massive shift! Pastor Aubrey Shines breaks down Trump's game-changing executive orders and what they mean for faith and freedom. Former White House health advisor Katy Talento reveals how Trump and RFK Jr. are taking on healthcare corruption. Duncan McGregor, host of The Kilted Christian, exposes the battle over suppressed energy tech. And Heidi Crosky uncovers Virginia's shocking crackdown on pet owners and farmers. Buckle up—this one's packed with truth you won't hear anywhere else! [1:50] Trump's First Weeks Back in Office Pastor Aubrey Shines, founder of Glory to Glory Ministries and host of America Shines, joins Shemane to break down Trump's first executive actions, from saving women's sports to securing the border and cutting ties with the WHO. He also weighs in on Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship, the impact of woke ideology on corporate America, and what Christians should be doing to stand strong against gender ideology. [14:01] Healthcare Reform Under Trump & RFK Jr. Katy Talento, executive director at the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries and former White House health advisor, reveals what's next for healthcare under the new administration. She dives into Biden's biggest failures, RFK Jr.'s fight for medical freedom, and what Americans can expect in the battle against Big Pharma, food toxins, and government overreach. [24:40] Tesla Tech & The Global Energy Crisis Duncan McGregor, host of The Kilted Christian podcast, breaks down the long-suppressed potential of Nikola Tesla's energy technology and what could be coming next. He and Shemane discuss how free energy could have changed the world, the elites' desperate attempts to keep it buried, and the deep corruption in global energy markets. Duncan also explores the Z Battalion's mysterious role in Ukraine and its possible ties to JFK Jr. [36:30] Radical Animal Rights Agendas in Virginia Animal rights advocate Heidi Crosky exposes how Virginia's Attorney General, in partnership with PETA, is waging a war on pet owners and farmers. She shares shocking stories of government-backed raids, unjust charges against families, and the deeper agenda behind these attacks. Could this be part of a nationwide push to end private animal ownership? Resources: Aubrey Shines - Glory to Glory MinistriesWebsite: glorytoglory.org Katy Talento - Health Care Sharing Ministries Website: ahcsm.org Instagram: @KatyTalento   Duncan McGregor - The Kilted Christian Podcast: Watch The Kilted Christian on Rumble Listen on Podbean Heidi Crosky - Animal Rights & Farming Advocate Website: GoFundMe.com  Search: Help Animal Owners Fight For Their Animals   Sponsors   Get clean healthy water with SentryH2O Use the promo code: “HEALTHY10”   Get true American made products at  switchtoamericawithshemane.com   Protect yourself with EMP Shield  Use the promo code “SHEMANE”    Activate stem cells & reset your body's clock  at lifewave.com/shemane Please send product inquiries to: shemane.lifewave@gmail.com   Watch Faith & Freedom every Sunday,  10am est on America'sVoice.News   Organic natural products to help your family thrive with  Rowe Casa Organics & use promo code “FAITH”   Purchase “My Pillow” at  mypillow.com or call 800-933-6972 Use promo code “FAITH”   Use promo code “FAITH” to receive  20% off your first order at Field of Greens   Join Shemane's new programs Fit & Fabulous Start Pack Faith Fuel: 21 Day Devotion    Check out Shemane's books:  Purchase Shemane's New Book: ‘Abundantly Well' Shemane's new #1 Bestseller ‘Killer House' "4 Minutes to Happy" Kill It and Grill It Cookbook   Connect with Shemane: Send your questions, suggestions,  & funny pet videos to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Share your hunting photos & questions to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Watch Killer House Documentary: KillerHouse.org Get Wildly Well at shemanenugent.rocks Shemane's Social Media: Facebook: @shemane.nugent Instagram: @shemanenugent Youtube: /shemane Truth Social @Shemane

Katy Talento, Executive Director, Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries (The Alliance, ahcsm.org). Former top health advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council. Will the Senate confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr.?

President Trump isn't wasting any time, and America is already experiencing a massive shift! Pastor Aubrey Shines breaks down Trump's game-changing executive orders and what they mean for faith and freedom. Former White House health advisor Katy Talento reveals how Trump and RFK Jr. are taking on healthcare corruption. Duncan McGregor, host of The Kilted Christian, exposes the battle over suppressed energy tech. And Heidi Crosky uncovers Virginia's shocking crackdown on pet owners and farmers. Buckle up—this one's packed with truth you won't hear anywhere else! [1:50] Trump's First Weeks Back in Office Pastor Aubrey Shines, founder of Glory to Glory Ministries and host of America Shines, joins Shemane to break down Trump's first executive actions, from saving women's sports to securing the border and cutting ties with the WHO. He also weighs in on Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship, the impact of woke ideology on corporate America, and what Christians should be doing to stand strong against gender ideology. [14:01] Healthcare Reform Under Trump & RFK Jr. Katy Talento, executive director at the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries and former White House health advisor, reveals what's next for healthcare under the new administration. She dives into Biden's biggest failures, RFK Jr.'s fight for medical freedom, and what Americans can expect in the battle against Big Pharma, food toxins, and government overreach. [24:40] Tesla Tech & The Global Energy Crisis Duncan McGregor, host of The Kilted Christian podcast, breaks down the long-suppressed potential of Nikola Tesla's energy technology and what could be coming next. He and Shemane discuss how free energy could have changed the world, the elites' desperate attempts to keep it buried, and the deep corruption in global energy markets. Duncan also explores the Z Battalion's mysterious role in Ukraine and its possible ties to JFK Jr. [36:30] Radical Animal Rights Agendas in Virginia Animal rights advocate Heidi Crosky exposes how Virginia's Attorney General, in partnership with PETA, is waging a war on pet owners and farmers. She shares shocking stories of government-backed raids, unjust charges against families, and the deeper agenda behind these attacks. Could this be part of a nationwide push to end private animal ownership? Resources: Aubrey Shines - Glory to Glory MinistriesWebsite: glorytoglory.org Katy Talento - Health Care Sharing Ministries Website: ahcsm.org Instagram: @KatyTalento   Duncan McGregor - The Kilted Christian Podcast: Watch The Kilted Christian on Rumble Listen on Podbean Heidi Crosky - Animal Rights & Farming Advocate Website: GoFundMe.com  Search: Help Animal Owners Fight For Their Animals   Sponsors   Get clean healthy water with SentryH2O Use the promo code: “HEALTHY10”   Get true American made products at  switchtoamericawithshemane.com   Protect yourself with EMP Shield  Use the promo code “SHEMANE”    Activate stem cells & reset your body's clock  at lifewave.com/shemane Please send product inquiries to: shemane.lifewave@gmail.com   Watch Faith & Freedom every Sunday,  10am est on America'sVoice.News   Organic natural products to help your family thrive with  Rowe Casa Organics & use promo code “FAITH”   Purchase “My Pillow” at  mypillow.com or call 800-933-6972 Use promo code “FAITH”   Use promo code “FAITH” to receive  20% off your first order at Field of Greens   Join Shemane's new programs Fit & Fabulous Start Pack Faith Fuel: 21 Day Devotion    Check out Shemane's books:  Purchase Shemane's New Book: ‘Abundantly Well' Shemane's new #1 Bestseller ‘Killer House' "4 Minutes to Happy" Kill It and Grill It Cookbook   Connect with Shemane: Send your questions, suggestions,  & funny pet videos to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Share your hunting photos & questions to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Watch Killer House Documentary: KillerHouse.org Get Wildly Well at shemanenugent.rocks Shemane's Social Media: Facebook: @shemane.nugent Instagram: @shemanenugent Youtube: /shemane Truth Social @Shemane

Katy Talento, Executive Director of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, discusses with Shaun that America has the saddest, most over-medicated population in history - and how President Trump and RFK, Jr. will help make us healthy again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Biden hands out pardons like Oprah hands out cars! PLUS, Katy Talento, Executive Director of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, discusses with Shaun that America has the saddest, most over-medicated population in history - and how President Trump and RFK, Jr. will help make us healthy again. And Shaun talks to Tom DiLorenzo, President of the Mises Institute, about President Trump's incoming economic plan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katy Talento is Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries and a Trump Administration health policy advisor. In this exclusive Schilling Show Unleashed Podcast interview, Talento discusses the scourge of Abortion on America, how true Covid disinformation warped children, and the dangerous food additives in the American diet.

Katy Talento, the executive director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, talks to Kelly Wright about the battle Americans fight to get good health care. The six-trillion-dollar industry is forcing many into medical debt, which is a common reason for personal bankruptcy. Then Melissa Ortiz, the founder of Capability Consulting, joins the show to discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act and its importance in integrating people with disabilities into American life. Watch America's Hope with Kelly Wright. ⭕️Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, joins us to explain why religious employers should be against the HOPE with Fertility Services Act. She also explains the dangers of IVF, the BIG Fertility component, and other helpful insights Christians need to know.

I was talking to one health plan sponsor, and she told me if she sees any charges for value-based care anything on any one of the contracts that get handed to her, she crosses them off so fast it's like her superpower. For a full transcript of this episode, click here. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter to be a member of the Relentless Tribe. What, you may wonder? Shouldn't employers and plan sponsors be all over value-based care–type things to do things preventatively because we all know that fee-for-service rewards, downstream consequences–type medical care, no money in upstream. Let's prevent those things from happening. Listen to the show with Tom Lee, MD (EP445); Scott Conard, MD (EP391); Brian Klepper, PhD (EP437). My goodness, we have done a raft of shows on this topic because it is such a thing. So, why wouldn't a plan sponsor be all over this value-based care opportunity? Now, I'm using the value-based care words and big old air quotes. Let's just keep that very much in mind for a couple of minutes here. I'm stressing right now that value-based care isn't a one-to-one overlap with care that is of value. So, let me ask you again, why wouldn't a plan sponsor be all over this air-quoted value-based care opportunity? Let me count the ways, and we'll start with this one. Katy Talento told me about this years ago. She said, it's not uncommon for dollars that a plan sponsor may pay to never make it to the entity that is actually providing the care to that plan sponsor's plan members. So, I'm a carrier and I say, I'm gonna charge you, plan sponsor, whatever as part of the PEPM (per employee per month) for value-based care or for a medical home, or pick something that sounds very appealing and value-like. Some of that money—not all of it, because the carrier's gonna keep some, you know, for administrative purposes—but whatever's left over could actually go to some clinical organization. Maybe it's the clinical organization that most of the plan's members are attributed to. Or maybe it's some clinical organization that the carrier is trying to make nicey nice with, which may or may not be the clinical organization that that plan sponsor's patients/members are actually going to. Like, the dollars go to some big, consolidated hospital when most of the plan's members are going to, say, indie PCPs in the community, as just one example. So, yeah, if I'm the plan sponsor in this mix, what am I paying for exactly and for how many of my members? I've seen the sharp type of plan sponsors whip up spreadsheets and do the math and report back that there ain't much value in that value-based care. It's a euphemism for, hey, here's an extra fee for something that sounds good, but … The end. Then I was talking to Marilyn Bartlett the other day and drilled down into some more angles about how this whole “hey, let's use the value-based care word to extract dollars from plan sponsors” goes down. Turns out, another modus operandi beyond the PEPM surcharge is for carriers to add “value-based fees” as a percentage increase or factor to the regular claims payments—something like, I don't know, 3.5% increase to claims. These fees are, in other words, hidden within billing codes. So, right, it's basically impossible to identify how much of this “value-based” piece of the action is actually costing. These fees are allowable, of course, because they're in the contract. The employer has agreed, whether they know it or not, to pay for value-based programs or alternative pay, even though the details are not at all, again, transparent. And that not at all transparent also includes stuff like, what if the health systems or clinical teams did not actually achieve the value-based program goals? What if they failed to deliver any value-based care at all for the value-based fees they have collected? How does anybody know if the prepaid fees were credited back to the plan sponsor, or if anything was actually accomplished there with those fees? Bottom line, fees are not being explicitly broken out or disclosed to the employers. Instead, they are getting buried within overall claims payments or coded in a way that obscures the value-based portion. So, yeah, charges for value-based care have become a solid plan to hide reimbursement dollars and make carrier administrative prices potentially look lower when selling to plan sponsors like self-insured employers. Justin Leader touches on this in episode 433 about the claims wire, by the way. Now, caveat, for sure, it's possible that patients can get services of value delivered because someone uses that extra money. And it's also possible that administrative costs go up and little if any value is accrued to patients, right? Like one or the other, some combination of both. It goes back to what Dr. Tom Lee talked about in episode 445. If there's an enlightened leader who gives a “shed,” then indeed, patients may win. But if not, if there's no enlightened leader in this mix, it's value based alright for carrier shareholders who take bad value all the way to the bank. Al Lewis quotes Paul Hinchey, MD, MBA, who is COO of Cleveland-based University Hospitals. And Dr. Hinchey wrote, “Value-based care has increasingly become a financial construct. What was once a philosophy centered on enhancing patient care has been reduced to a polarizing buzzword that exemplifies the lack of alignment between the financial and delivery elements of the healthcare system.” And then on the same topic, I saw William Bestermann, MD, he wrote, “The National Academy of Medicine mapped out a plan to value-based care 20 years ago in detail. We have never come close to value-based care because we have refused to follow the path. We could follow it, but we don't, and we never will as long as priorities are decided by businessmen representing stockholders. It is just that simple.” Okay, now. Let's reset. I'm gonna take a left turn, so fasten your seatbelts. Just because a bunch of for profit and not-for-profit, nothing for nothing, entities are jazz-handing their ways to wealth by co-opting terminology doesn't mean the intent of value-based care isn't still a worthy goal. And it also doesn't mean that some people aren't getting paid for and providing care that is of value and doing it well. There are, for sure, plenty of examples where an enlightened leader was able to operationalize and/or incentivize care that is of value. Occasionally, I also hear a story about a carrier doing interesting things to pay for care that is of value. Jodilyn Owen talked about one of these in episode 421. Justina Lehman also (EP414). We had Larry Bauer on the show (EP409) talking about three bright spots where frail elderly patients are getting really good care as opposed to the really bad care that you frequently hear about when you even say the words frail elderly patient. And all of these examples that he talked about were built on a capitated model or on a model that facilitated patients getting coordinated care and there being clinicians who were not worried about what code they were gonna put in the computer when they helped a patient's behavioral health or helped a patient figure out how they were gonna get transportation or help them access community services or whatnot. There are also employers direct contracting with health systems or PCPs and COEs (Centers of Excellence) and others, contracting directly with these entities to get the quality and safety and preventative attention that they are looking for. And there are health systems and PCPs and practices working really hard to figure out a business model that aligns with their own values. So, value-based care—the actual words, not the euphemism—value-based care can still be a worthy goal. And that, my friends, is what I'm talking about today with Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH). PBGH members are really focused on innovating and implementing change. We talk about some of this innovation and implementation on the show today, and it is very inspiring. Elizabeth argues for for-real alternative payment models that are transparent to the employer plan sponsors. She wants prospective payments or bundled payments, and she wants them with warranties that are measurable. She wants members to get integrated whole-person care in a measurable way, which most health plans (ie, middlemen) either cannot or will not administer. Elizabeth says to achieve actual care that is of value, cooperation between employers, employees, and primary care providers is crucial (ie, direct contracts). She also says that this whole effort is really, really urgently needed given the affordability crisis affecting many Americans. There's been just one article after another lately about how many billions and billions of dollars are getting siphoned off the top into the pockets of the middlemen and their shareholders. These are dollars partially paid for by employees and plan members. We have 48% of Americans with commercial insurance delaying or forgoing care due to cost. If you're a self-insured employer and you're hearing this, don't be thinking it doesn't impact you because your employees are highly compensated. As Deborah Williams wrote the other day, she wrote, “Co-pays have gotten high enough that even higher-income patients can't afford them.” And she was referencing a study to that end. So, yeah … with that, here is your Summer Short with Elizabeth Mitchell. Also mentioned in this episode are Purchaser Business Group on Health; Tom X. Lee, MD; Scott Conard, MD; Brian Klepper, PhD; Katy Talento; Marilyn Bartlett; Justin Leader; Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd; Al Lewis; Paul Hinchey, MD, MBA; William Bestermann, MD; Jodilyn Owen; Justina Lehman; and Deborah Williams.   You can learn more at PBGH and by connecting with Elizabeth on LinkedIn.   Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), supports the implementation of PBGH's mission of high-quality, affordable, and equitable healthcare. She leads PBGH in mobilizing healthcare purchasers, elevating the role and impact of primary care, and creating functional healthcare markets to support high-quality affordable care, achieving measurable impacts. Elizabeth leverages her extensive experience in working with healthcare purchasers, providers, policymakers, and payers to improve healthcare quality and cost. She previously served as senior vice president for healthcare and community health transformation at Blue Shield of California, during which time she designed Blue Shield's strategy for transforming practice, payment, and community health. Elizabeth also served as the president and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), a network of regional quality improvement and measurement organizations. She also served as CEO of Maine's business coalition on health, worked within an integrated delivery system, and was elected to the Maine State Legislature, serving as a state representative and chair of the Health and Human Services Committee. Elizabeth served as vice chairperson of the US Department of Health and Human Services Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, board and executive committee member of the National Quality Forum (NQF), member of the National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) “Vital Signs” Study Committee on core metrics and now on NAM's Commission on Investment Imperatives for a Healthy Nation, a Guiding Committee member for the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network. She now serves as an appointed board member of California's Office of Healthcare Affordability. Elizabeth also serves as an advisor and board member for healthcare companies. Elizabeth holds a degree in religion from Reed College, studied social policy at the London School of Economics, and completed the International Health Leadership Program at Cambridge University. Elizabeth was an Atlantic Fellow through the Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowship program.   10:36 What are members and providers actually asking for in terms of value-based care? 10:56 Why won't most health plans administer alternative payment models? 12:17 “We do not have value in the US healthcare system.” 12:57 Why you can't do effective primary care on a fee-for-service model. 13:30 Why have we fragmented care out? 14:39 “No one makes money in a fee-for-service system if people are healthy.” 17:27 “If we think it is not at a crisis point, we are kidding ourselves.”   You can learn more at PBGH and by connecting with Elizabeth on LinkedIn.   @lizzymitch2 of @PBGHealth discusses #valuebasedcare on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthcareleadership #healthcaretransformation #healthcareinnovation #vbc   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Dr Will Shrank (Encore! EP413), Dr Amy Scanlan (Encore! EP402), Ashleigh Gunter, Dr Spencer Dorn, Dr Tom Lee, Paul Holmes (Encore! EP397), Ann Kempski, Marshall Allen (tribute), Andreas Mang, Abby Burns and Stacey Richter

Kamala Harris is a hornswoggler!! PLUS, Shaun talks to Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, about the historic record breaking rise in health care and how the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries circumvents it.   And The Heritage Foundation's EJ Antoni talks to Shaun about the quietly revised jobs numbers and the growth of the welfare state.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shaun talks to Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, about the historic record breaking rise in health care and how the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries circumvents it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WW3 is heating up! Putin meets with Vietnam. PLUS, Shaun takes on Big Fertility with Katy Talento, Executive Director of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, pointing out that IVF is putting adult's needs before children's rights.   And Bryan Riley, Director of National Taxpayers Union Free Trade Initiative, talks to Shaun about the who really pays tariffs and if tariffs could replace the income tax.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shaun takes on Big Fertility with Katy Talento, Executive Director of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, pointing out that IVF is putting adult's needs before children's rights.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As critical health care costs rise, many Americans with health insurance are putting off medical treatment.  What is an affordable option that also embraces biblical values and community? Katy Talento, a veteran policy advisor, epidemiologist, and executive director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, shares about health care sharing as it was in the early Church and how this Acts-based model is being used today. 

In the 2nd hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid say Harrison Butker can have his views even if they don't agree with them. Kaitlan Collins ask Sen. Cruz if he will validate the outcome of the election MO Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss how the MO Legislature failed to pass IP Reform and what she feels is the biggest issue facing MO today. In Other News with Ethan: Apple drops their 100 greatest Albums of all time, Train founding Bassist passes, Graceland not for sale...yet Coming Up: Jim Talent and Katy Talento

Katy Talento, Executive Director at Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, joins Marc & Kim to talk about Health Care Sharing Ministries bringing a suit in CO  to defend member ministries and members to exercise religious liberty in the state.

In the 3rd hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Nikki Haley says she will vote for Trump Former US Senator Jim Talent makes his weekly appearance to discuss Nikki Haley saying she's going to vote for Trump, as well as Biden forgiving student loans. Katy Talento, Executive Director at Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, joins Marc & Kim to talk about Health Care Sharing Ministries bringing a suit in CO  to defend member ministries and members to exercise religious liberty in the state. Kim on a Whim too? Coming Up:  Shannon Bream and Griff Jenkins

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries Katy Talento is a veteran policy advisor, health care reformer, epidemiologist and thought leader. As the former top health advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council, Katy spearheaded transformative policies to protect religious liberty in health care, end secret health care prices across the United States, end predatory medical collections practices, lower prescription drug prices, guarantee health records access and interoperability for patients and their care teams, combat the opioid addiction crisis and eliminate domestic HIV/AIDS. She first developed her take-no-prisoners approach to waste and corruption as an oversight investigator and legislative director on Capitol Hill, born of love and duty toward the hardworking American taxpayers. Prior to her White House appointment, Katy served five U.S. Senators over a 15-year period, including as top health advisor and manager of legislative staff and oversight investigators. She also worked in the private sector helping multinational energy companies protect their global workforce from infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue and the largest community-based HIV/AIDS service organization in the US. On the faculty at Georgetown University Medical School, Katy managed the Washington site of a multi-site NIH-funded pulmonology study. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr. William Makis provides in-depth intelligence on Covid-19, sudden deaths, mRNA vaccines, vaccine injuries, new pandemics, and more at makismd.substack.com. He is an expert in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology and ran one of the largest Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Cancer Clinics in North America and diagnosed over 10,000 cancer patients with state-of-the-art diagnostics such as PET/CT. He is a Board Member of The Wellness Company Canada (twc.health) as the Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology. And he is the author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.

OJ is dead and Shaun maintains that he is INNOCENT! PLUS, Katy Talento, Executive Director of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, tells Shaun the cost of health care has quadrupled and it's about to get worse. And Scott Walter, president of Capital Research and author of Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America, talks about the billionaires (some you've never heard of!) funding Arabella Advisors and what their 'dark money' is used for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries Katy Talento is a veteran policy advisor, health care reformer, epidemiologist and thought leader. As the former top health advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council, Katy spearheaded transformative policies to protect religious liberty in health care, end secret health care prices across the United States, end predatory medical collections practices, lower prescription drug prices, guarantee health records access and interoperability for patients and their care teams, combat the opioid addiction crisis and eliminate domestic HIV/AIDS. She first developed her take-no-prisoners approach to waste and corruption as an oversight investigator and legislative director on Capitol Hill, born of love and duty toward the hardworking American taxpayers. Prior to her White House appointment, Katy served five U.S. Senators over a 15-year period, including as top health advisor and manager of legislative staff and oversight investigators. She also worked in the private sector helping multinational energy companies protect their global workforce from infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue and the largest community-based HIV/AIDS service organization in the US. On the faculty at Georgetown University Medical School, Katy managed the Washington site of a multi-site NIH-funded pulmonology study.

The Court will hear oral arguments that day in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Former White House health official Katy Talento to speak against FDA betrayal of women at U.S. Supreme Court rally on March 26.  GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Rodney Scott served as the 24th Chief of the United States Border Patrol. During his three-decade career in the Border Patrol, under both Republican and Democrat administrations, Scott earned the respect and admiration of agents, colleagues and partners alike while working to successfully enforce our nation's laws and secure our borders.

No doubt about it...for many, the "Affordable Health Care Act" was anything but affordable. One alternative option to consider is a sharing ministry, like Medishare or Samaritan Ministries. Those are but two of the brands represented in The Alliance of Healthcare Sharing Ministries. Former White House employee and Executive Director Katy Talento returns to explain the benefits and value in such sharing ministries.

For so many in our health care fields, from nurses to administrators to public officials, health care is not simply a job, or a problem to be solved, but a life mission. Providing and enhancing the best care possible to those in need is the mission of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries. Their executive director, Katy Talento, joins the show.

Critical health care costs are rising! What are your affordable options that embrace biblical values and Christian community?  Learn from Katy Talento, veteran policy advisor, epidemiologist, and executive director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, about your health care options.

On this week's interview Paul discusses the New Mexico Insurance Commissioner's efforts to kill Christian Health Sharing plans in New Mexico. Katy Talento is a health care expert and Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries. We discuss how the plans work and why they became so popular in the wake of ObamaCare. We also discuss why the Insurance Commissioner would come after these plans. Paul and his family once were part of one prominent health sharing plan. He describes his experience. 

Our ships are being bombed by terrorists and the mainstream media only cares about coo-coo E Jean Carroll! PLUS, Katy Talento, Executive Director of the Alliance Health Care Sharing Ministries, warns what is coming next with the return of mask mandates. And Gun Owners of America's Luis Valdes applauds Illinoisians for telling JB to FU with the massive non-compliace rate of registering assault weapons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, we're joined by Katy Talento, an epidemiologist, a health benefits consultant, and a veteran health policy advisor, most recently at The White House as the lead health advisor to President Donald Trump on the Domestic Policy Council. Katy joins us to discuss healthcare in the United States and, more importantly, Healthcare Sharing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, we're joined by Katy Talento, an epidemiologist, a health benefits consultant, and a veteran health policy advisor, most recently at The White House as the lead health advisor to President Donald Trump on the Domestic Policy Council. Katy joins us to discuss healthcare in the United States and, more importantly, Healthcare Sharing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's TechTalk, Dr. Jay and Brad had the pleasure of interviewing Katy Talento, a licensed health benefits consultant, veteran health care reformer, epidemiologist and thought leader. Based in northern Virginia, Katy Talento is the Chief Executive Officer of AllBetter Health, a benefits advisory firm helping employers navigate the health plan marketplace and implement innovative solutions that reduce costs and improve patient experience. Katy quarterbacks AllBetter's nationwide, custom-curated partnerships of advisors, actuaries, member services teams and analytics gurus to deliver on the AllBetter client promise: significant savings, more generous benefits, and happier employees. As the top health advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council to President Donald Trump, Katy spearheaded transformative policies to end secret health care prices across the United States, end predatory medical collections practices, lower prescription drug prices, guarantee health records access and interoperability for patients and their care teams, combat the opioid addiction crisis and eliminate domestic HIV/AIDS. She first developed her take-no-prisoners approach to waste and corruption as an oversight investigator and legislative director on Capitol Hill, born of love and duty toward the hardworking American taxpayers. Katy has traveled the world, holding U.S. foreign aid programs accountable for results, as well as protecting the workforce of multinational energy companies from infectious disease threats. On the faculty of Georgetown University Medical School, Katy managed the school's participation in a multi-site NIH study. She founded a mentorship program for junior high girls in inner city DC and even served two years as a Catholic nun! Katy earned her graduate degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health and an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.

A continuation of reporting on the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit, organized by the Family Research Council (FRC). This episode features excerpts of speeches from Republican presidential candidates. Also, we hear messages from Dr. Ben Carson, former Housing and Urban Development secretary; Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina; and noted author Os Guinness. Plus, Kelly interviews Katy Talento about the impact the rising cost of health care is having on families. And Alex McFarland discusses his outreach to help young Americans find purpose in today's culture.  ⭕️Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

CPS has a bigger budget, but will it produce any better results? Probably not! PLUS, Katy Talento, executive director of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, points to mainstream media's advertising being controlled by the pharma swamp that is preventing patients of getting the best health care coverage. And Wayne Black, founder of Wayne Black and Associates, tells Shaun there is no excuse for a lack of security at your child's school and he put together a guide for parents to ensure their schools are safe from lunatics gunmen. School Insecurity: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents and Educators on School Security, Protecting Your Children and Fostering a Safe Learning Environment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you a decision maker at your business? If you're a CEO, CFO, the head of HR, or perhaps the owner of a small, medium or large business then you owe it to yourself to check out this fairly simple solution to save over 50% on your health care spend. Health insurance is usually one of the biggest overhead expenses after salaries for any company and it affects the bottom line of nearly every business. Imagine what your company could do if it paid out less than 50% in its health care spend - while also maintaining a similar if not improved plan for employees. Before you scoff and say that there is no way you can provide your employees high quality care at less than half the cost, just remember that only about 25% of every dollar spent in health care actually goes to caring for patients. There's plenty of room to cut. Why Health Insurance Is So Expensive?The reasons for expensive insurance is obviously a complicated question. However, it's simplest to think of it in just a few ways - especially when we look for ways to bypass the rotten system to save real money for our business. The insurance companies make money by paying out a lot in claims. This seems illogical at first glance but makes a lot of sense once you realize that the insurance companies are only allowed to use 15-20% of the total they pay out in claims towards profit and overhead. Therefore, the more in claims payouts, the higher amount they can profit. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) hang onto the rebates. Instead of passing on the volume discounts (or rebates) onto the employers and employees they keep that percentage of charges. Just like the insurance companies, the more that is paid out in charges the greater revenue they get to keep leading to ever increasing pharmaceutical prices. Insurance brokers primarily make their money through commissions from the insurance companies. This incentive leads them to find only solutions for your company that involve large insurers. The only way you can actually save money is to bypass the traditional means of creating a health plan which most brokers are not aligned to do. Building a Better Health Plan?What becomes readily obvious as far as solutions go is that you must create your own self-funded health plan and find transparent PBMs and rational contracting to pay for services. Very few companies are prepared to do this which is why you need to find insurance brokers and third party administrators who can set it up for you. There are plenty around, you just need to seek them out. I've had two on in the past whom I reference in the show. Of course, they are hardly an exhaustive list of players in the field but they would be a good start for anyone investigating these solutions for their business: Katy Talento of All Better Health and David Contorno of Epowered Benefits.   show notesEpisode 176: Today's show Episode 111: Katy Talento tells us how she saves businesses money. Episode 150: David Contorno explains his business model. Episode 043: How PBMs jack up drug prices. All Better Health: Katy Talento's business where she helps others create their own health care plans. E Powered Benefits: David Contorno's business helping others create health care solutions. We Are Libertarians: The Paradocs is a proud partner and member of this outstanding podcast network. Top 20 Physicians Podcasts Made Simply Web Site Creations: This is the great, affordable website service that built my wife's podcast site. I cannot recommend this company more to someone looking for creating a website. Always Andy's Mom: Home of my wife, Marcy's, podcast for parents grieving or those looking to help them. YouTube for Paradocs: Here you can watch the video of my late son singing his solo on the Paradocs YouTube page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cocaine in the West Wing! Wonder who brought that in.....PLUS, Katy Talento, Executive Director of Alliance Health Care Sharing Ministries, tells Shaun the left is trying to perpetuate racism when it comes to health care - but your health doesn't care about your race! And Aaron Withe, CEO of Freedom Foundation, is taking on the government unions with his new book Freedom is the Foundation: How We are Defeating Progressive Tyranny by Taking on the Government Unions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a conversation about physician compensation, which is often oddly misaligned from the way that the whole physician or provider organization is getting paid. Now, first thing to point out: There are lots of different kinds of physicians doing all kinds of different things. As with most everything in healthcare, lumping everybody together and making general proclamations about what is best is a really cruddy idea. With that disclaimer, if you think about the main models of physician compensation, there are two; and this is oversimplified, but let's call one fee for service (FFS), which is really getting paid for generating RVUs (relative value units)—in short, getting paid for volume. The more you do (especially the more expensive things you do), the more you get paid. And then we have getting some kind of capitation payment. A capitated payment is some kind of per member per month-ish flat payment to ideally keep patients healthy, and you will make the most money if you can figure out how to have the least volume of expensive stuff. As an individual doc getting a salary to care for a patient panel of a certain size, let's just consider commensurate with that. These incentive models obviously have a big impact on any given doctor's ability to get paid to do things that they think they should be doing. For example, the current fee-for-service RVU fee schedule frequently rewards those doing the stuff a lot of specialists do much more than those doing primarily cognitive work, including those doing work for patients who aren't sitting in the exam room at the time—like a PCP arranging for a patient to go to hospice or answering patient portal questions. In my opinion, the goal here should be to pay docs and others fairly for providing high-value care. These payments also should actually be proven to actually incent that high-value care. Here's the obvious problem: Neither of these two things, either the quantifiable definition of high-value care and/or the best way to pay for it, has any kind of canon. There are no rules which are considered to be particularly authoritative and definitive here, really. So, what is the downside of not aligning physician compensation models to what good looks like, meaning to the kind of care that patients really need in that particular community? A couple of downsides for you: One is moral injury. Not the only reason, but a reason for moral injury is getting paid in misalignment with what is best for patients. That sucks. You want to help your patients as best you can, and then you can't earn a living and/or you get in trouble with the boss if you do what you think is right. This can cause real mental anguish for especially PCPs but also others who see the need to do anything that doesn't have a billing code. Here's another downside to not worrying about physician compensation, and it's for plan sponsors (employers, maybe) who are trying to get integrated care or a medical home for their employees. I was talking to Katy Talento about this. She was telling me that in ASO (administrative services only) contracts, there are often line items for value-based care and for capitated payments. So, good news? Well, let's follow the dollar here, because we wind up with a disconnect that doesn't help patients but certainly can earn a nice little kitty for those who can get away with it. Here's where that dollar goes: This VBC (value-based care) or capitated payment kitty may go to a health system that the ASO says is to be a medical home for employees or plan members. But the PCPs mainly who are treating members in those medical homes are getting paid, it often turns out, fee for service with maybe some quality kickers. So, the plan is paying a value-based care payment, but the PCPs are getting paid FFS. Is anyone shocked when the members report that they don't actually feel like they are getting integrated care, that they are getting rushed in and out because maximizing throughput becomes a thing when you're getting paid for volume? Dan O'Neill also talks about this at length in episode 359, because IPAs (independent physician associations) are doing kinda the same thing. Getting so-called value-based care contracts with MA (Medicare Advantage) plans or CMS or employer groups, I'd imagine, and then paying all the individual practices or the solo practitioners fee for service and scooping up the excess payments themselves, most docs manage to provide high-enough-quality care that the contract holder can scoop up the profit off the capitation without actually having to share the capitation to achieve this high-enough-quality care. In this healthcare podcast, I am digging into all of this physician compensation ballyhoo with Rachel Reid, MD, MS. She was an author on a study at the Center of Excellence on Health System Performance at RAND. This study specifically set out to look at how health systems and provider organizations (POs) affiliated with those health systems incentivize and compensate the physicians who work there. Short version: Yeah, it's confirmed. Most docs are paid using the classic RVU productivity measures representing a big chunk of their compensation, even PCPs. There's frequently some kickers or extra payments to achieve some kind of quality metric, but this is the icing, not the cake. The cake is still very fee for service-y. This is true regardless of how the physician organizations, the provider organizations themselves are getting paid by payers. I asked Dr. Rachel Reid a bunch of questions about this, but one of them was (this seems weird, a weird misalignment), Why is this happening? And Dr. Reid listed out five reasons beyond the macro existential question of what is value and do we even know how to change human behavior to get it. 1. The payment is not big enough from the payer for the physician organization to go through all the time and trouble and risk frankly of changing the whole comp model. 2. The value-based payment arrangements that do exist at the organizational level often have a fee-for-service chassis with an icing of quality payments or some kind of value payment on top of it. So, maybe there's actually more alignment than we might think. 3. It's hard to try to change comp models—it's a thing. And there is risk in messing it up. 4. Inertia. The ever-present inertia. 5. We know what we want to move from, but what exactly are we moving to? And this “What do we want to move to?” is going to change for PCPs and for every single different specialty and could even vary by patient population. I then also asked Dr. Reid what could be done by plan sponsors, for example, to pay docs in alignment with the goals of the contract; and she said, write physician comp expectations into the contract. Something to think about. We dig into all of this today. Shows that you should, for sure, listen to for additional insights include the one with Dan O'Neill (EP359) as aforementioned. Also the show with Brian Klepper, PhD (AEE16), where we dig into how the RUC is behind some of these FFS rates. Also episode 391 with Scott Conard, MD. My guest today is Rachel Reid, MD, MS. She is a physician policy researcher at RAND Corporation and a primary care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.   You can learn more about Dr. Reid, her publications, and the work she has done on the RAND Web site.     Rachel Reid, MD, MS, is a physician policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Also a practicing primary care physician, her research focuses on measuring cost, quality, and value in healthcare. She has particular interest in the primary care delivery system, physician payment and compensation, and delivery and payment system reform. Dr. Reid has been engaged in the RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance, assessing health systems' compensation and incentives for physicians, leading work related to assessing low-value healthcare delivery, and measuring primary care spending. She is the principal investigator on an NIH-funded grant assessing novel Medicare billing codes for transitional care provided after hospital discharge. Prior to joining RAND, Dr. Reid worked in the Research and Rapid Cycle Evaluation Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Innovation Center. Her clinical work has included ambulatory primary care and hospital-based internal medicine. She is an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Reid received her AB in biochemical sciences from Harvard University and her MD and MS in clinical research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.   07:13 What did Dr. Reid's recent study show about how doctors are currently being paid and incentivized? 08:11 Why Dr. Reid decided to do the study in the first place. 09:49 What are the main foundations of what doctors are paid on? 10:31 Why is value-based compensation still just the “icing” on the cake? 13:08 What is the biggest value add for doctors, and does it vary between specialties? 14:32 Why wouldn't a physician organization change their comp models? 19:55 Are we at a moment of evolution? 20:20 “Tying dollars to measured quality gaps doesn't necessarily produce results.” 20:42 EP295 with Rebecca Etz, PhD. 22:04 “I don't think there's a current gold standard for how to pay doctors.” 25:37 Job one: What are we trying to incent? 31:28 From the payer or insurer perspective, what's the leverage they have to change doctor compensation?   You can learn more about Dr. Reid, her publications, and the work she has done on the RAND Web site.   Rachel Reid, MD, MS, of @RANDCorporation discusses on our #healthcarepodcast how doctors get paid. #healthcare #podcast   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! 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They want to arrest the Pentagon document leaker when they should be arresting Joe Biden! Former Texas Congresswoman Mayra Flores joins Shaun and tells about her time spent in Congress, what she learned, and how she is still fighting for the rights of her people in Texas. PLUS, Director of Alliance Health Care Sharing Ministries, Katy Talento, tells Shaun how Robert Kennedy Jr.'s presidential run will affect health care choices for Americans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.