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Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

Feb 4, 2026 · 00:41:58
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  • Justin Mares (TrueMed CEO) attributes America's poor health outcomes to incentive misalignment, highlighting crop subsidies creating unhealthy food systems.
  • TrueMed enables tax-free HSA and FSA spending on lifestyle interventions, redirecting hundreds of billions toward prevention rather than treatment.
  • Explores psychedelics for mental health and peptides as pharmaceutical disruptors while framing chronic disease as national security issue.

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