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Dr. Clay Johnston

Co-founder & CMO, Harbor Health · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. S. Claiborne "Clay" Johnston is an academic neurologist and epidemiologist who served as the inaugural Dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin from 2014 to 2021. He co-founded Harbor Health, a Texas-based primary care network and value-based care platform aiming to redesign healthcare delivery.

13statements → 6claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.85/5average certainty → 2.31/5average debate potential →

3 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 2 opinions · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dr. argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Johnston: Almost every country beats US in health per dollar spent
“So if you just, so first of all, if you just look at countries that do better in terms of productivity, you know, health per dollar spent, It's every other country almost in the world.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 14:13 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Johnston: Cuba has better average health outcomes than the US
“Even Cuba has better health outcomes than we do.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 14:30 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
67% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Dr. Clay Johnston on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Dr. Clay Johnston said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Johnston: Cuba has better average health outcomes than the US
“Even Cuba has better health outcomes than we do.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 14:30 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Johnston: Established Healthcare Organizations Cannot Be Reformed from Within
“You can't take an established organization and really move it forward. It really does involve training differently, but also setting up healthcare differently.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 4:59 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dr. Johnston: Over 50% of Doctor Time Is Spent Generating Bills
“So if you look at a doctor's time, so again, doctors are only a small part of how health is determined, but they're important. You know, more than 50% of that is spent documenting in order to improve a bill and the outcome of a bill. I mean, the predominant re…”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 19:15 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Johnston: U.S. Patients Pay More for Lower Quality Healthcare
“It's the opposite today. So you pay more for bad quality today.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 10:19 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Johnston: Almost every country beats US in health per dollar spent
“So if you just, so first of all, if you just look at countries that do better in terms of productivity, you know, health per dollar spent, It's every other country almost in the world.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 14:13 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnston: Insurer Found Redesigned Musculoskeletal Care Cut Costs by 80%
“But we met recently with an insurer that we had been working with, or they were sending patients to us, and they told us that in fact we were wrong, that we were saving them 80% on their costs. Yeah. For musculoskeletal care.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 22:01 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Johnston: Only half of patients take prescriptions as prescribed after three months
“Only half of people are taking their prescription as prescribed three months after that prescription was written.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 6:57 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Johnston: Healthcare measures productivity by revenue rather than delivering health outcomes
“The system is not built to deliver the outcomes that you're talking about a productivity, the productivity ought to be around delivering more health, right? That should be what we're, But it's not what it's doing. It's productivity around health care. From the…”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 8:14 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Johnston: Fitbits Work for People Who Buy Them, Not Those Given Them
“You know, like Fitbits work for people who buy them, but not for people who are given them who need them.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 38:22 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Johnston: Remove bad-behavior incentives before paying people for healthy ones
“I think there's a lot of room to do, to take away the incentives that we're already providing for bad behaviors before we try to pay people for better behaviors.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 40:12 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Dr. Johnston: Left Academia Because Healthcare Must Be Solved by Private Sector
“I wouldn't have left academia if I didn't think that this had to be solved in the private sector.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 42:39 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Johnston: Conflicting Austin and Texas State Policies Made COVID-19 Response Hard
“I mean, I would say it's easy to stick with the evidence and that's where, you know, you can always be pretty comfortable, but even in stating the evidence, it became such a politicized issue, particularly in Austin, Where you had a city that was taking differ…”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 3:28 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Dr. Johnston: Only 60% of US Hypertension Patients Receive Adequate Treatment
“Maybe it's now 60% of people with hypertension, this thing that we've known about forever, right? That cost pennies to treat. Only, you know, 60% of them actually have it adequately treated in the United States.”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 17:51 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale Feb 9, 2023 30m
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