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In Episode 13, hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai close out Season 1 of the podcast by talking through Elisha's insights on why American Healthcare is failing all of us, regardless of insurance coverage, location, or socio-economic standing.

His assessment is built from his personal experiences we've gone through this season: Medical school, his medical career in myriad care settings and locations, creating healthcare innovations as one of the first pioneers of telemedicine care models, and starting a telemed healthcare business that eventually also included a physical clinic.

America's healthcare system is broken and failing all of those that it is supposed to serve: Whether you feel the pressure as it crumbles or not, it is affecting all of us in ways most of us don't even see.

We hope that by educating viewers/listeners on the cracks in our broken healthcare system, we can begin to peel back the layers and learn and understand what's not working, why it's not working, and how we got here. Together we can find a better way.

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Credits:

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer

Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer

Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer

Alexis Cruz - Videographer

Austin Engler - Video Editor

Harmony Marketing - Marketing & Production

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Dear Healthcare, It's You: A new podcast investigating the failing US healthcare system and what we can do to change it.

UP NEXT: In Season 2 we're diving deeper into specific cracks in the system and bringing in more voices to give critical insights. If you have any specific healthcare topics you'd like us to cover, let us know on social media!

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In Episode 12 hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai dive into the process of lobbying in the United States and how it plays a role in legislation changes that specifically can affect healthcare options in America.

Hear about the final events that led to legislation being passed finally requiring health insurance providers to cover telemedicine services after Elisha and his team had been fighting for that for 5 years to no avail.

The state legislation they finally got passed in Kansas was the first of its kind in the US, requiring insurance companies to pay for virtual services, and requiring them to not block healthcare providers from becoming certified as a preferred provider on their payer panel just because they were doing telemedicine.

The law finally went into effect in Jan 2019, which helped pave the way for nationwide adoption of the same policies 15 months later as the Covid-19 Pandemic became widespread.

At the end of it all, the biggest lesson learned is that our bureaucratic systems and the parties with the most power in healthcare can and do stand in the way of innovation. Implementing improvements in our healthcare system (or any system) in America shouldn’t be this hard.

Hear all about it in this episode.

Subscribe and get a peak behind the curtain of what really goes on in failing the American Healthcare System.

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Credits:

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer

Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer

Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer

Ben Laffen - Videographer

Austin Engler - Video Editor

Harmony Marketing - Marketing & Production

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Dear Healthcare, It’s You — A new podcast investigating the broken U.S. Healthcare system.

Why is it failing? How are you getting screwed over? Who is profiting? How can it change?

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Available on YouTube and major podcast platforms.

In Episode 11 hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai take a step aside to talk about Elisha’s personal suffering during the early years of building a telehealth business (a new innovation for the US healthcare system at the time).

Through several initial years of not getting paid for their telemedicine services, Elisha and his partners encountered one hurdle after another. Eventually, his partners pulled out of the venture, leaving Elisha at the helm alone to face extreme hardship on both professional and personal levels.

But he saw that they had actually created something that solved a major gap in access to healthcare in America, he couldn’t let himself stop until he saw it become a reality.

How does a change-maker, a leader in industry innovation feel when they’re hustling to make something happen for the world and they’re blocked at every turn? How do they feel when their partners leave and it’s just them alone left pushing for the acceptance of something revolutionary? How does it feel to pay such a high personal cost to make the world better?

Hear about what drove Elisha to keep going even when the journey took such a great personal toll on him.

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Credits:

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer

Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer

Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer

Ben Laffen - Videographer

Austin Engler - Video Editor

Harmony Marketing - Marketing & Production

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Subscribe and get a peak behind the curtain of what really goes on in failing the American Healthcare System.