Description

Why are primary care doctors held accountable for chronic diseases caused by billion-dollar industries? In this episode, I discuss how powerful corporations—from soda to fossil fuels—engineer addiction, shape policy, and shift blame for the diseases they help create.

🔍 In this video, you’ll learn:

- What Commercial Determinants of Health (CDoH) really are

- How corporate actors manipulate marketing, pricing, and public policy

- Why bottled water ads make sugary drinks more attractive

- The hidden agenda behind “recycling” campaigns

- How value-based care deflects blame from upstream harm to frontline doctors

- How trade agreements, research funding, and lobbying protect harmful industries

- The “Commercial Parasite” model—and how it keeps people just sick enough to stay profitable

👨‍⚕️ Doctors are penalized for outcomes shaped by upstream corporate behavior. This video argues that unless we address commercial determinants, efforts like value-based care will fail to improve population health.

Chapter Markers

00:00 - Intro

00:57 - Defining Commercial Determinant of Health (CDoH)

01:32 - CDoH and Primary Care

02:03 - Marketing & Advertising

02:39 - Strategic Product Pricing

04:43 - Corporate Influence on Policy & Regulation

05:43 - Recycling: A Corporate Lie

07:57 - Deflecting Blame & Creation of Value-Based Care

08:56 - Supply Chain & Labor Practices

10:45 - Corporate Influence on Research

12:33 - Trade Agreements and Health

13:14 - The Commercial Parasite Model

14:29 - Conclusion

15:10 - Outro

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