The Perverse Incentives Eroding Patient Care, From the Opioid Crisis to the Gender Craze: Dr. Carrie Mendoza

“When Obamacare happened, what it did was really give more power to the insurance companies and middlemen. I saw a lot of some of the smartest doctors in my group basically retire early, leave, or go into health tech. There are people that have gone into different areas in terms of autonomy, creativity, increasing their wages, but the actual clinical practice of medicine continues to have been marginalized.” Dr. Carrie Mendoza is an emergency medicine physician and an advocate for the depoliticization of health care and education. “The detransitioners … There aren’t services for them … There’s not even a billing code. If you don’t have a billing code, you can’t be in the insurance stream, right? So, you’re kind of like a non-existent person in the medical world. But yet, these are young kids who’ve had surgeries, or some now need hormone replacement because they’ve had their ovaries removed,” says Dr. Mendoza. For years, Mendoza has been tracking the transformation of clinical medicine and the doctor-patient relationship. “It’s written into regulations that the hospital wouldn’t get paid if their scores weren’t at a certain number. And so, then the pressure rolls downhill,” she says. In this episode, we dive into the impact of the administrative state on medicine and health care, and reflect on the opioid crisis and its similarities to the social contagion of transgenderism sweeping the youth today. “The detransitioners are like the people that overdosed and were harmed by the opioids,” says Dr. Mendoza. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.