S03E08: How to Prevent the 2060 Dystopia Featuring Richard Young, MD.

Cristy Gupton and Dr. Richard Young discuss his book, the American HealthScare along with Healthcare issues related to it.

Show Notes

The newest book you need to order is called 2060 and is now available for purchase. Ask your spouse to add this book to your stocking this Christmas.

Dr. Richard Young is a primary care physician, author and researcher. He also wrote the book: American HealthScare. Within his new book, 2060, he discusses the grim possibility of a bleak future if we don’t work to fix things now. The book also features various solutions that American society could take to begin countering the 2060 dystopia. For anyone who consumes healthcare in America, this is a must read.

Healthcare professional and host, Cristy Gupton, interviews Dr. Young about his latest book, along with discussions on the approaching 2060 American Healthcare dystopia. They attempt to find solutions, and discuss the effectiveness of these solutions in countering that possible future.

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Timecodes

[00:00:00] Intro

[00:03:50] The Writing of 2060

[00:08:20] The Studies of the Future

[00:12:17] The Rules of this System

[00:21:47] How to Prevent the Dystopia

[00:27:10] The Blue Zones

[00:35:40] The Business Drives

[00:40:00] Equalizing the Healthcare System

[00:50:38] Closing

Richard Young, MD.

Our Guest

RICHARD YOUNG holds a UT-Austin Chemical Engineering degree and attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio. His family medicine residency training was at the John Peter Smith Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in Fort Worth.

Richard is married to Pamela, his wife of 38 years, and they have three adult children, all thriving. Richard is the Associate Program Director and Research Director for the John Peter Smith Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. He also worked in emergency departments for much of his career and worked on various committees and commissions for the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has had the privilege of helping to train about 700 young family physicians over his teaching career, as well as countless medical students. He is also proud of working in an environment where they take care of vulnerable patients with all the social determinant challenges one could imagine who have nowhere else to go for care. Thus, Richard is part of the JPS team that is the safety net provider for Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

His research includes publications in the peer-reviewed medical literature on a variety of topics, on the nature of family medicine and the cost and processes of the U.S. healthcare system. Examples include innovations in family medicine residency education, the underlying drivers of cost-effective primary care, the disconnect between the U.S. medical billing rules and the actual work of family physicians, the low interest of U.S. medical students in family medicine, the impact of the toxic effect of expensive U.S. healthcare on family incomes and health insurance, and new models for improving quality in primary care. Richard is constantly disgusted at the exorbitantly expensive U.S. healthcare system and its effects on every other aspect of life in America. He published a book in 2012 called American HealthScare to educate Americans about the difficult truths we must face to bring costs down.

He also started a blog of the same name at www.healthscareonline.com and will continue to speak out in an attempt to stop the slow decay of American society.

Cristy Gupton

Your Host

Cristy Gupton is an employee benefits advisor and President of Custom Benefits Solutions. Cristy has been part of the employee benefits industry since 1998 and has been named to Employee Benefits Advisor Magazine’s Top 20 Women in Benefits Advising in both 2018 and 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in Health Benefits Design and Health Informatics from University of Lynchburg.

Cristy belongs to an elite group of benefits advisors called the Health Rosetta and another similar group called Mitigate Partners. Health Rosetta advisors commit to transparency in all their business endeavors, guiding and teaching employers and employees about health plan design and accessing the highest quality healthcare at the lowest possible cost. Cristy is a sought-after speaker on healthcare cost/quality issues and is a national thought-leader and expert on Direct Primary Care; specifically, how DPC doctors’ memberships can be embedded into employer-sponsored health plans, lowering costs, and improving the patient experience. Cristy has written articles for BenefitsPro Magazine and Physician Outlook Magazine. She leads the NC/SC Chapter of the Free Market Medical Association and the DisruptHR Asheville and Wilmington Chapters. Cristy also holds the designation, Global Financial Steward, through a program at Wake Forest University and the Center for Board Certified Fiduciaries. This helps Cristy give sound guidance to health plan sponsors on how they can be the best fiduciaries they can be.