Broken healthcare is failing millions of Americans — especially hourly and frontline workers.

In this episode of the Broken Healthcare Podcast, host Ray Kober sits down in-studio with Lexie Leitner, PA-C, Vice President of Clinical Operations at River Health, to unpack why the traditional U.S. healthcare system no longer works — and what it will take to fix it.

Lexie shares her journey from family medicine to healthcare innovation, and explains how River Health is rethinking access, affordability, and care delivery for workers who are often left behind by employer-sponsored insurance.

One of the most powerful parts of River Health’s model? Mental health is treated as essential care — not an add-on. Members receive unlimited virtual therapy plus free access to the Calm app, helping address anxiety, burnout, depression, and everyday stress without barriers, copays, or long wait times.

• Why high-deductible health plans leave Americans functionally uninsured
• How hourly workers fall through the cracks of traditional healthcare
• The real reason healthcare costs keep rising (and who actually pays)
• How River Health delivers unlimited virtual primary care, labs, prescriptions, imaging, and urgent care access for a flat monthly cost
• Why unlimited teletherapy and Calm access are critical in today’s mental health crisis
• How employers can support workforce health without $40,000 insurance plans
• The difference between insurance and actual access to care
• How healthcare became so complex — and what simplicity looks like again

If you’re an employer, HR leader, healthcare professional, or someone frustrated with the cost and confusion of U.S. healthcare, this conversation will challenge how you think about coverage, value, and care.

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The U.S. healthcare system is broken — and doctors are burning out just as fast as patients.

In this powerful in-studio episode of the Broken Healthcare Podcast, host Ray Kober sits down with Dr. Dana Mincer, a board-certified osteopathic physician and Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, to expose what’s really happening behind the scenes of American healthcare.

Dr. Mincer shares her raw, unfiltered journey — from medical training and provider burnout to mental health struggles, patient advocacy, and ultimately walking away from the insurance-driven system to build a direct primary care practice centered on time, transparency, and human connection.

In this episode, we cover:

- Why traditional insurance-based healthcare is failing both patients and doctors

- What Direct Primary Care (DPC) actually is — and why it works

- The healthcare insurance cartel, price opacity, and hospital consolidation

- Doctor burnout, moral injury, and why so many physicians want out

- Mental health, ADHD, anxiety, and the limits of medication-only care

- Why relationship-based medicine leads to better outcomes and lower costs

- How free-market healthcare models are restoring trust and autonomy

This conversation is a must-watch for patients, employers, physicians, and anyone who knows the system feels wrong but hasn’t been able to put it into words.

🎙️ If you care about:

✔ Broken healthcare

✔ Direct primary care

✔ Medical burnout

✔ Mental health reform

✔ Free-market healthcare solutions

— this episode is for you.

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America doesn’t have a healthcare system — it has a sick care system.

In this powerful episode of the Broken Healthcare Podcast, host Ray Kober sits down with Dr. Kyle Rickner, a pioneer of the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement and co-founder of Primary Health Partners, to expose why U.S. healthcare is failing patients and doctors — and what it will take to fix it.

Dr. Rickner shares his journey from being an employed physician inside a hospital system to breaking free and helping build a multi-state Direct Primary Care network that puts doctors and patients back in control.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• Why healthcare costs keep exploding
• Why doctors are burned out and leaving medicine
• Why insurance dominates every medical decision
• How Direct Primary Care actually works
• How employers can slash healthcare costs without sacrificing care

This episode will change how you think about healthcare forever.

• Why insurance and hospital systems broke healthcare
• How Direct Primary Care eliminates middlemen
• Why doctors have lost autonomy — and how DPC restores it
• The truth about cash-pay healthcare and transparent pricing
• How employers are quietly escaping traditional insurance
• Why prevention actually works when doctors have time
• What it takes to scale DPC nationally
• Why this fight is about saving doctors’ lives, not just money

Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a membership-based healthcare model where patients pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited access to their doctor — no insurance billing, no copays, no rushed visits.

Patients get:

✔ Longer appointments

✔ Same-day or next-day access

✔ Direct communication with their doctor

✔ Transparent pricing

✔ Better outcomes at lower cost

Doctors get:

✔ Autonomy

✔ Time with patients

✔ Freedom from insurance bureaucracy

✔ A sustainable career

If you’re tired of confusing bills, rushed visits, and a system that puts profits over people — subscribe to Broken Healthcare for real conversations with doctors, employers, and innovators rebuilding healthcare from the ground up.

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