Healthcare Uncensored with Rani Kheterpal
Rani Khetarpal asked how a 21-year-old pianist becomes a professional pain in healthcare’s ass who lovingly tags Mark Cuban for a living.
The answer lives in the scar tissue between brain surgery and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn where, in that spare bedroom where my wife watched me turn a decade of PTSD cancer survivorship rage into Stupid Cancer. Before kids. Before speaking gigs. Before any of this made sense.
This is Healthcare Uncensored.
I told her about the lovingly empathetic care team who gave me six months in 1995. (Spoiler: Best misdiagnosis ever.) Years later came stories about adolescents and young adults bleeding out in waiting rooms while doctors called them dramatic. Then it was time to build a movement because the alternative was watching more of us die quietly.
Here’s what still makes me see red: Insurance companies weaponize time. They know dead patients can’t appeal. They bet on it. Your prior auth takes six weeks when you have six days? That’s not incompetence. That’s strategy.
PBMs turned your corner pharmacy into a casino where you always lose. They make your $30 drug cost $3,000 because three middlemen need yacht payments. States have the power to stop this tomorrow. They won’t. Not until we make them.
Rani didn’t flinch. She’s been swimming in this cesspool long enough to know the smell. Instant karma was afoot and filled the conversation.
We mapped the whole ridiculous system. Navigation that should exist but doesn’t. Medical debt that ruins families who did nothing wrong except get sick. Every landmine between diagnosis and bankruptcy.
Two people who know the system kills by design, not by accident.
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