Opiod Free America: The 5 W's, with guests Dr. Matt McCord, Mike Vasquez, & Doug Geinzer

We spend more on healthcare than any nation in history… yet Americans are dying younger than people in every other peer country.We spend more on healthcare than any nation in history… yet Americans aredying younger than people in every other peer country.Every generation deserves a healthier America than the one before it.”Dr. Matt McCord — an anesthesiologist and acute pain physician who has spent 32 years on the front lines of American healthcare. Over those decades, I have watched something deeply troubling unfold:America leads the world in healthcare innovation, yet those breakthroughs have nevertranslated into better or more efficient care — and now the gap is widening in the wrongdirection. — pulled downward by four forces we created ourselves: routine opioid prescribing that turns acute care into lifelong dependence, smoking and preventable disease, metabolic illness we refuse to prevent, and a healthcare industry bloated with middlemen who profit when care fails.Our team wants to help wean America off its dependence on opioids and rebuild the health of our communities.So, we found Opioid Free America for one reason:The tool we need to fix this already exists — claims data.For too long that data has been hoarded, distorted, or weaponized against patients, employers, and prescribers.We are reclaiming it.We turn that data into the most powerful force for good American healthcare has everseen.  exposing waste, predicting risk early, identifying harmful prescribing patterns before addiction starts, and empowering clinicians with insights they were never given.This is not simply about ending unnecessary opioid exposure — though that alone will save countless lives. It’s about something bigger:Leaving the workforce, our communities, and this country in better shape than we found it.Our mission is to partner with prescribers — the people at the front line of pain care — and give them the education, standards, and data-driven tools needed to prevent addiction before it begins.We advance safer care, opioid-free recovery, and evidence-based alternatives that protect patients rather than expose them.Better health. Lower costs. Longer lives.It all begins with data — and ends with America leading the world again in health, notfalling behind.Thank you to Brock Fletcher and the selling team of Keller Williams Realty for their continued support of our programming!'The Tom Matt Show' Heard on-The Michigan Talk NetworkWKAR Michigan State Universities AM 870 & 102.3 FMWJIM-AM 1240 LansingWYPV FM 94.5 Mackinac Citywww.tommattshow.com(podcasts)iTunesFor more information on past guests, Tom's published books, and how to get in touch, please visit our newly updated website at https://www.tommattshow.com#RFZ #radio #broadcasting #podcast #michiganradio #lansing #michiganradio #mab #refirementzone #successstory #humaninterestpodcast #selfhelppodcast