Opinion
Caliri: Amazon Was More Helpful to Americans During Pandemic Than Government
“Amazon was far more helpful to many Americans than anything the government did”
Assertion Supported
Caliri: Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Ship Fentanyl Precursors to Mexico
“There are state-owned enterprises in China that are shipping fentanyl and fentanyl precursors to Mexico.”
Opinion
Caliri: Much of medical school is irrelevant hazing rather than training
“I think that really a lot of it isn't terribly relevant to the clinical practice of medicine. Sometimes it felt more like a hazing ritual than anything really important related to training you to be a doctor.”
Insight
Caliri: Making Money and Having Scaled Impact Are One and the Same
“Making money and having impact at scale are one and the same.”
Assertion Supported
Caliri: Ketamine Sessions Are Far Cheaper Than Years of Talk Therapy
“It's far cheaper to do a couple of ketamine sessions than be using talk therapy, you know, a couple of times a week for years on end.”
Insight
Caliri: Medical training and residency condition doctors against critical questioning
“I think to survive In medical training, you can't ask too many questions, right? In medical school, if you start asking, why am I memorizing this list of antibiotics and the bugs they match up to, they'll say, you know, just memorize the list. This isn't the t…”
Assertion Supported
Caliri: Healthcare multifactor productivity is declining as the sector expands
“I think that in healthcare, as it has become a bigger and bigger part of our economy multifactor productivity has actually been declining.”
What-if
Caliri: Lack of billing codes delayed AI diagnostic deployment for years
“There was no code for AI to perform a diabetic retinopathy screen. And so even though we had the technology for years, we couldn't get paid for it. It was silly. And this is something we could have deployed across the country by now. And, you know, instead we …”
Insight
Caliri: Value-based care makes rural primary care economically viable
“In fee for service world, you simply can't get paid much for delivering primary care to patients in rural America. And that's partly why they aren't out there. But in a value based model where you get rewarded for keeping people out of the emergency room, out …”
Assertion Supported
Caliri: Early clinical trial results for psychedelic medicines are strongly positive
“Early clinical trial results for many of these different compounds are really positive, really strong, both for the basic sort of common disease like depression, anxiety, but also for things that are quite a bit more challenging to treat.
Substance use, eatin…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Caliri: Psychedelic medicine is on the cusp of mainstream cultural acceptance
“I think we're on the cusp of both cultural acceptance, but also a whole trove of data being released about the effectiveness of these drugs and these types of therapies.”
Opinion
Caliri: MDMA is one of the most promising treatments for PTSD
“There's a great phase two trial using MDMA for patients with PTSD. That result was released, I think a couple months ago from a nonprofit called MAPS. And the results are really strong. It's one of the most promising therapeutic modalities out there for PTSD.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Caliri: Energy Costs Will Dominate Manufacturing as Automation Increases
“And I think the interesting thing that comes with all this automation is, you know, of course energy will start to dominate the cost equation when it comes to manufacturing.”
Assertion Supported
Caliri: Dual-eligible Medicare-Medicaid patients incur $20k to $30k+ annually
“20, 25, 30 plus thousand dollars a year in medical spend for this population.”
Assertion Contradicted
Caliri: US Opioid Overdose Deaths Growing Over 30% Year-Over-Year
“And in fact, if you look at the most recent data, we're still seeing 30, 30 plus percent year-over-year growth in opioid overdose deaths.”
