Hospice care
Subject in Medicine
Hospice care has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Proven Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Zach BushAmerican physician in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care; founder of Farmer's Footprint and Seraphic Group
Bush claims that about 10% of hospice patients recover and are discharged after near-death experiences.
“10% of people that go through that have to be discharged from hospice six months later because they went on to live a new life”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2529 - Zach Bush (Jul 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:56:59
Bush recounts that across thousands of deathbeds no patient ever mentioned a day spent in an office.
“Sat by thousands of deathbeds, and not a single person ever told me a day of their life in an office”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2529 - Zach Bush (Jul 22, 2026) · Listen from 2:53
David GoldhillFounder and CEO of the healthcare marketplace Sesame, former entertainment executive, and author of Catastrophic Care
Goldhill notes that when Medicare first covered hospice on a per-day basis, providers admitted patients who were not dying, the opposite problem.
“They were paying per day And people were taking hospice patients who weren't really dying”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 38:07
Charles SchwartzEntrepreneur and host of The Proven Podcast
Schwartz recounts that after VITAS entered his market, average inpatient hospice stays fell from about two weeks to 47 hours and later under 16 hours.
“the patients went from being there for two weeks to being there for 47 hours”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 37:36
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Proven Podcast · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David GoldhillProven Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 59 min
Charles Schwartz talks with Sesame founder David Goldhill about why American healthcare costs so much and how cash-price markets and telemedicine could lower costs.
#2529 - Zach BushThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 h 58 min
Physician Zach Bush tells Joe Rogan his theories on hospice, nature disconnection, glyphosate, autism as telepathy, ancient pyramids and why universal high income would harm humanity.