#91: Robert Murphy

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show features a very special guest, Robert P. Murphy, who is a notable economist and co-author of the newly released book from Primal Blueprint Publishing, The Primal Prescription. Robert has a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. After teaching at Hillsdale College, Murphy left academia to work in the financial sector. In 2007, he started his own firm, Consulting By RPM, where he specializes in teaching economic principles and analyzing government policies for the general public. Murphy is affiliated with several non-profit organizations devoted to economic education, including the Institute for Energy Research, the Fraser Institute, the Mises Institute, and the Independent Institute.

On Today’s show, Robert goes over the extensive pitfalls of the American “sick care” system and how it came to exist as it currently does. Brad and Robert discuss the Affordable Care Act, the history of employer provided health insurance, rising health care costs, and what we can do to start fixing the problems each of us faces when trying to achieve the best, more cost-effective health care possible. Whether you’re currently in top notch health or someone who relies heavily on professional medical care, you won’t want to miss this episode.

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is brought to you by Harries for a better way to shave. Please visit Harries.com
0:08.0	and use the promo code Primal to save $5 off your first purchase. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint
0:14.3	podcast featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal, including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder, Mark Sisson.
0:23.6	Special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson and conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.
0:31.6	The show is presented by Damage Control, Master Formula, the world's most potent multivitamin mineral antioxidant
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0:46.8	download or to review written summaries at blog.primalblueprint.com and, here's your host, Brad Kearns.
0:58.8	Hey, everyone, it's host Brad Kearns talking to Bob Murphy over in Texas, the co-author
1:05.0	of the primal prescription.
1:07.3	How are you, Bob?
1:08.5	I'm doing great, Brad.
1:09.5	Thanks.
1:10.4	Or as you're known on Amazon, Robert P. Murphy, with a voluminous resume of books and writing things
1:18.2	that I didn't even know how much you'd written before this book. Tell us about your background
1:22.4	and what you write about usually.
1:24.2	Well, sure. So I am a professional economist. I originally was an academia at Hillsdale
1:30.0	College in Michigan, a liberal arts school. I left that and went in the financial sector for
1:36.1	about a year. And then I went into consulting. And then it was only this August of 2015 that I
1:43.1	went back down to Texas. and now I'm at the free
1:45.6	cost called the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University.
1:49.5	So yeah, for years I have just been writing on what you might call free market economics
1:53.6	just trying to explain to the layperson through various books and articles and public lectures
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