Nephilim Death Squad – Octagon Doctor Exposes the Healthcare Scam

Podcast: Nephilim Death Squad
Hosts: TopLobsta & Raven (David Lee Corbo)
Guest: Dr. Yared Vasquez (Octagon Doctor)
Date: October 13, 2025

Episode Overview

In this provocative episode, TopLobsta and Raven welcome Dr. Yared Vasquez, an internal medicine physician and MMA ringside doctor, to dissect the dysfunction and hidden exploitation in the American healthcare system. Through humor, personal stories, and a touch of righteous anger, Dr. Vasquez exposes healthcare’s profit-driven games, provides practical advice for breaking free of the corporate medical system, and forecasts a creeping shift toward AI-based, impersonal care. The discussion ranges from personal health crises to the impact of insurance, the dangers of urgent care, and why direct primary care might be the answer. All this is filtered through the podcast’s trademark style: a mix of skepticism, biblical conspiratorial outlook, and banter.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Dr. Yared’s Journey & Perspective (03:34–08:00)

• Background: Raised in public housing in Ponce, Puerto Rico; medical school in Puerto Rico and Mexico; moved to the US for practice—first to Iowa (attracted by financial incentives), then Florida.
• Early Career Experiences: Iowa’s environment was a dramatic (and literal) climate shift; exposure to both agricultural chemicals (Monsanto) and the stark lack of community engagement in health.
• Personal Healthcare Wakeup: Shared a personal struggle with Covid: “I had Covid when it was the delta variant—fever for 12 days. I almost died.” (08:15)
• Unique After-effects of Illness (Covid): Lost ability to smell bad odors permanently—resulting in humorous “superpower” moments with family. (09:28)

2. The Health Impact of Environment & Corporate Medicine (06:18–13:25)

• Effect of Northern States/Winters: Poor air, constant indoor living, lack of fresh food, all weaken the immune system.
• Family Health Struggles: TopLobsta shares spouse’s experience—Lyme disease reactivated after Covid, and the limitations of Western medicine (“They wanted to put her on some pills that she would be on for the rest of her life. She recognized it immediately and said no…” 07:13).
• Corporate Healthcare’s Blind Spots: No mainstream guidance on proactively strengthening immune systems ahead of flu season; urgent care is “a money grab...just a patch to get your money and send you on your way.” (12:07)

3. The Healthcare & Insurance Scam (13:25–24:50)

• The Problem with Urgent Care & Insurance:

  • Urgent care is deliberately under-staffed by cheaper mid-levels (nurse practitioners, physician assistants) to avoid full ER rates and cut costs for corporations, not to improve care (13:25–14:20).
  • Exposé on Costs: Imaging can be vastly cheaper out-of-system: “Visit and CT scan: pay ~$300…in the corporate system, your deductible kills you!” (15:03)
  • Insurance deductibles reset annually, rarely yielding the security people expect: “You think you’re covered, but every time you have a health issue, you’re the one paying anyway.” (16:09)

• On Catastrophic Insurance: Dr. Yared advises “get catastrophic insurance, not ‘health insurance’” (16:56).

• Health Insurance as a Scam:

  • Insurance companies profit while providing minimal coverage and denying claims. “Absolutely fucking no [they’ll help you out],” Dr. Yared is blunt (18:57).
  • Every major form—health, auto, home—plays similar denial games when it counts (Coney Island and Hurricane Sandy anecdote, 19:03).
  • Middle class is crushed paying exorbitant premiums for little real benefit.

  “You’re just feeding the system, not getting adequate care.” – Dr. Yared (15:03)

4. The Corporate Takeover & The Loss of Patient Care (21:02–31:17)

• Direct Primary Care as the Solution:

  • “You have to find a doctor that does direct primary care...every time you come here, this is what it's going to cost. In my case, every visit is $50.” (20:11)
  • Contrasts personal, accessible, transparent care with the hoops, high fees, and brick walls of corporate hospitals and insurance.
  • All his patients have his personal cell phone; “Do they call me sometimes at awkward times? Yes. But it’s worth it.” (21:02)

• Billing and Administrative Kafkaesque Nightmares:

  • Insurance companies and their sub-system (pharmacy benefit managers, PBMs) set inflated and secretive prices for procedures and medications, driven by negotiations that ensure corporate profit (23:00).

  “This question gives me a boner. This is what people need to know.” – Dr. Yared, on explaining PBMs and hospital billing (23:00)

• Doctors Locked Out of Ownership

  • Obamacare made it illegal for doctors to own hospitals under the guise of 'conflict of interest,’ shifting ownership to profit-driven corporations. This has gutted the healthcare system’s accountability and the patient-doctor relationship (29:02).
  • “If you have a relationship with your doctor, you have a shot. All my patients spend an hour with me, not five minutes.” (32:18)

5. The Commodification of Disease—Especially Cancer (26:10–29:52)

• Chronic Disease as Subscription Service: “Is cancer really incurable, or is it managed for profit? They want a parasitic relationship with that diagnosis forever.” – Raven (25:33)
• Dr. Yared’s Nuance: Cancer is many diseases, some curable, some not; systemic factors like stress and lifestyle degrade DNA and lead to disease.
• Corporate Healthcare Removes Morality: By shifting ownership, removes the Hippocratic Oath and accountability; “You’re shouting at a logo now.” (31:03)
• Doctors need to have deep relationships with patients—knowing them, caring about them, and spending time.

6. The Culture of Medical School & Why the System Creates Cowed Doctors (37:16–39:45)

• Medical training is now expensive, exhausting, and designed to break the spirit and will of would-be independent doctors, funneling them into corporate systems.
• “You have a baby elephant, you tie its leg, when it’s grown it still thinks it can’t move… That’s most doctors.” – Dr. Yared (39:24)
• Corporate oversight, credentialing costs, and insurance power prevent young doctors from going out on their own.

7. The Looming Threat of AI & Algorithmic Care (42:26–54:00)

• AI Already Disrupting Care: Radiology, pathology are being subsumed by AI. Tech companies offering to pay doctors to let them record and listen to checkups, harvesting data for machine learning (42:26–43:00).
• “There is an active movement of the death of specialty and intricate knowledge...being replaced by algorithms and AI generalization.” (49:54)
• Danger of AI Doctors: Disconnected, unaccountable, tailored to tell patients what they want to hear. “Imagine getting a text from a bot to tell you your loved one is dead…” (53:18)

8. How to Break Free – Steps for Patients (51:16–53:18)

• Find Direct Primary Care: Google for “direct primary care” or “concierge”; subscription or fee-per-visit is transparent and most affordable.
• Don’t Accept Less: “If you don’t like your doctor, go find one that fits. You need to feel comfortable, have a relationship, and get direct care.” (51:16)
• The healthcare system will only get “more distant, more expensive, and less effective.”

9. Health and Parenting in a Toxic Culture (54:00–78:54)

• The modern environment—addictive short-form entertainment, processed foods, both parents working, failing schools—makes raising healthy, resilient kids hard.
• The importance of minimizing screen time, offering real activities and skills, and being an active, present parent.
• “It’s easy to have your kid on an iPad, but the peace you have when you’re not paying attention will go away when they do something stupid, get sick, or aren’t successful.” – Dr. Yared (75:29)
• The system grinds people down, requires both parents to work, then blames families for the inevitable breakdown.

10. Medical Myths, Parasites, and Social Misdirection (56:49–68:57)

• On Parasites: More attention is being paid post-Covid to parasitic and other “unconventional” explanations for disease; Dr. Yared’s philosophy is to pursue what the patient is genuinely concerned about.

• Autism and Tylenol: Explores the recent debates over acetaminophen, vaccines, and autism, noting that the issue is deeply multifactorial; government pronouncements are often distractions from deeper systemic failures.

  “Instead, you have that distractor—Tylenol…We put so much bad in our kids. Including everything from cell phones on.” (65:12)

• Dr. Yared’s experience: “My daughter was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism. I spent thousands...ballet was what helped her connect with her body after nothing else worked.” (66:24)

11. Seasonal Health, Intravenous Therapy, and Practical Steps (82:32–90:01)

• IV Infusions as Seasonal Support: Monthly IV vitamin infusions (vitamin C, B12, glutathione) are recommended, especially for immune system support in winter and during respiratory virus season; cost is usually $75–$125—cheaper than most insurance premiums (89:26).
• Insurance “Health Savings Accounts” (HSAs): HSA is the only part of the system that actually lets patients save and spend on their own terms, with funds rolling over year to year.

12. Wellness in Sports and Beyond (91:11–96:57)

• Combat sports can bring excellent health benefits with the right approach (minimizing weight cutting, focusing on nutrition).
• Concerns about infections (MRSA in gyms) and why some fighters experience more health issues: “If you fight close to your walk-around weight, you’re top shelf. If you do massive weight cuts, your immune system is shot.” (92:20)
• Even in healthy-seeming pursuits, knowledge and self-care are critical.

13. The Vision for Change in Healthcare (98:22–107:01)

• “What I want to see is younger physicians inspired to do direct care, delay instant gratification, and build real communities of patients—they will survive and force corporate systems to compete.” (98:40)
• What’s needed is not more government management, but a mass return to old-school, process-driven, personal medicine, driven by doctor-patient relationships and direct payment models.
• “The corporate system will have to compete when enough of us do this.” (100:32)
• Stories of personal perseverance—stepping out, taking risk, and doing right by patients.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On corporate healthcare:
  “Imagine getting a text from a bot to tell you your loved one is dead…” – TopLobsta (53:18)

• On urgent care: “It’s a money grab...Urgent cares are there to prevent ER visits because ER visits are more expensive.” – Dr. Yared (13:25)

• On the insurance scam: “You’re just feeding the system and not getting adequate care because then you’re gonna have to pay the copay for the imaging, the doctor, and all that stuff...It’s a scam.” – Dr. Yared (15:03)

• On AI and the corporate future: “If not, you’re going to be stuck with AI in less than five years…Radiology has been taken over by AI. Pathology will soon follow... they want to record your exam room, gather data, and replace you.” – Dr. Yared (42:26)

• On direct care: “All my patients have my cell phone. Do they call me at awkward times? Yes, but it’s worth it because I get to results.” – Dr. Yared (21:02)

• On health myths and parenting: “We put so much bad in our kids, including everything—cell phone, everything…autism is multifactorial, it’s not just Tylenol.” – Dr. Yared (65:56)

• On life and medicine: “I was born poor. Public housing project. I don’t give a f*ck. I want to do what I want to do.” – Dr. Yared (39:40)

Important Timestamps & Segments

• 03:34 - Dr. Yared’s background, moving from Puerto Rico to Iowa/Florida.
• 08:15 - Dr. Yared’s Covid illness and aftermath.
• 12:07 - First explicit callout: “urgent care as a scam.”
• 15:03 - Out-of-system healthcare cost comparison—where the system truly fleeces patients.
• 20:11 - Direct primary care explained and advocated.
• 23:00 - The secret world of PBMs and how prices are set.
• 29:02 - Doctors banned from hospital ownership; loss of patient-centric morality.
• 31:03 - Diffusion of responsibility in corporate medicine.
• 39:24 - “Baby elephant” analogy for conditioned doctors.
• 42:26–49:54 - AI and the encroaching death of the personal doctor.
• 53:18 - Chilling vision of bot-delivered prognosis.
• 66:24 - Ballet and bodywork helping Dr. Yared’s autistic daughter.
• 89:26 - Pricing for IV infusions and health savings tips.
• 98:40-100:32 - Dr. Yared’s vision for a revolution in primary care.
• 104:16 - Building a panel of 700 patients via honest, low-cost direct care.

Key Resources & Contact Information

• Find Dr. Yared:

  • Instagram: @OctagonDoctor
  • Facebook: Dr. Yared
  • YouTube: Dr. Yared Vlog, Octagon Doctor

• Practical Tip:
  Search “direct primary care” or “concierge doctor” in your area to break free of the parasitic corporate system.

Conclusion

This episode is an energetic, unapologetic deep dive into the machinery of the healthcare scam and the urgent need for genuine, old-school doctor-patient relationships. Dr. Yared pulls no punches, offering both a searing critique and a roadmap for escaping the cycle of exploitation. It’s a must-listen for anyone frustrated with their healthcare or seeking a way out of the insurance labyrinth.