Coffee With Scott Adams 11/3/25 https://t.co/Vie6dMg9Dw
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 3, 2025
On his X feed:
That follows this, yesterday:Best President ever.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 3, 2025
Thank you, President Trump.
On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 2, 2025
I need it.
As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer.
My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a…
Adams succeeded in letting the President know by simply posting on X saying that he would, the next day, "ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life." That was enough. He got calls from Don Jr., Bobby Kennedy, and Dr. Oz.
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I'm happy about this. It feels like something we need
It's good to be king. It's also good to be a friend of the king.
It got him maybe four more months. Four months is good...well, maybe.
This points out the danger of embedding too much bureaucracy in the medical decision-making process. His healthcare provider agreed to give him a newly-approved drug but failed to provide the IV service by which the drug is administered. If there were a single doctor with decision-making capability this would not happen - this only occurs in a bureaucracy.
He's too doped up and high to be interesting today.
Glad to see Trump come through. Sad to see the insurer / regulatory bureaucracy can so easily get in the way of people making the choices they want to make when it affects nobody but themselves.
Trump covers more ground in a day than some, many do in a lifetime. Lives that matter here and abroad.
I have some issues with this, because I don’t want a President that can intervene in every personal hardship. However, I don’t see much difference in what Trump did to help Scott Adams and what Trump did in his first term to authorize “right to try” legislation. It is a continuation of what Trump wanted to do for those terminally ill and fighting for a chance at life.
After dealing with the medial/Insurance industry as of late - for myself and my aging parents - I now know our medial system is corrupted by the evil corrupt left.
The democratic left Destroy everything they touch.
Know this - the corrupt Soviet Democrats are on the march to remove as much freedom of choice as they can from our health care system.... and it should terrify everyone.
Thank goodness, the Progressive Left legal machine was not monitoring X yesterday: otherwise, a California District Court Judge would have entered a TRO preventing Trump from acting until a hearing briefed by both sides could be scheduled.
This fellow has so much of worth to share. He’ll be missed.
Perhaps this special treatment isn't fair- but it highlights that our corrupted medical system - on a choke hold from Soviet-Democratics (on purpose!) because they want everyone funneled into a one-size fits all government scheme.... should be front and center.
Everyone in Congress & Senate - can escape the crap rules - the forced crap rules the rest of us are forced to abide by.
Never forget that.
This reminds me of a perennial question that many people face: they truly believe in God, and that God can cure people and heal impossible problems. And, like me, I've seen it: people who were going to die got healed.
But then, what about those that also were going to die, and prayed, and had faith... and died anyway? Why does God save some and not others?
Much like this question: Mr. Adams got the attention of Trump, but Trump cannot possibly intervene in every deserving case.
There are answers to the question about God sparing some people but not all people, of course, but I thought it was an interesting comparison with respect to this story about Mr. Adams.
Hopefully, there was a lesson learned, and the causes will be addressed in service of all lives matter.
Speaking of medical care. I assume, I hope, the republicans have labored over a feasible alternative to Obamacare. I don’t know why they’re not talking about this every single day the government is shut down.
To all above talking about medical bureaucracy, the byzantine labyrinth that is American healthcare pre-and-post ACA and beyond isn't a bug, it's absolutely a feature.
100% maliciously designed to be exactly the way it is.
Why does a rich guy like Scott Adams have Kaiser insurance? Scott is wealthy enough to pay for any medical treatment he wants, yet claims he needs Trump’s help to get Kaiser to approve the treatment. He should also be intelligent enough to know that Kaiser’s business model is to deny or delay expensive or experimental care on an industrial basis.
I have no confidence that any healthcare plan that goes through the Congress could be anything other than graft and an abject failure of vision. They are the last people I would trust on it. It's so connected to graft that it requires incredible courage and new thinking to fix. These people have neither, nor do they want to really fix it.
We can't fix health care without kicking a lot of people (millions) off the gravy train.
Total Treatment Cost: Patients typically receive up to 6 doses, administered every 6 weeks. The total cost for an average treatment course (around 4.5 to 5 doses) is estimated to be over $120,000, and potentially up to $162,000 for the full 6 doses at list price.
when leftists whine about Health Care CEO's making too much money... just remember ObamaCare made that worse.
Bernie, without knowing it, admitted it.
Americans have forgotten how insurance is supposed to work.
The lack of transparency in medical pricing - has a lot to do with the GRIFT we are talking about.
An alternative to Obamacare would be The Bill To Permanently Fix Health Care For All, affordable and available medical care, accompanying improved health care.
40 trillion dollars in debt and more in credit, delayed services, a wicked solution, and dysfunctional personal choices are neither affordable nor sustainable.
Sounds like a marginal benefit over the standard of care for a cost of $150,000.
Overall response rate (ORR): The ORR was numerically higher in the Pluvicto plus standard of care arm (85.3%) compared to standard of care alone (80.8%).
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A wicked solution to relieve a "burden" h/t Obama cares and empathetic interests armed with blades, etc.
valid question to ask why he uses insurance!
so he can provide anecdotal evidence of inept bureaucracy?
or does FDA 'approve to use' require insurance involved?
Shorter Vance: if you stroke God's ego, he will bless you. Otherwise you can go pound sand you miserable peon.
FDA approved, but not covered
Many medications have FDA approval but may not be covered by insurance.
Your insurance company may say the medication is not ‘on formulary’, meaning it is not included on the list of covered medications. Alternatively they may say that only some versions of a drug are covered – for instance, only a generic version of the drug may be covered. They may also say that they will not cover a medication because its use is considered experimental.
Sometimes insurance companies will say that the condition itself is not covered. We have seen many patients with chronic Lyme disease, which is not a covered condition by many insurance carriers. Therefore, they won’t approve therapies to treat chronic Lyme.
There are many reasons that an insurance company may give for refusing to cover a medication or treatment.
It's unseemly to count other people's money. Also it's pretty pathetic to question the judgment of someone facing a fatal illness and is highly medicated as a result.
There but for the grace of God go I
The efficacy of this very expensive treatment does not seem to be worth the extremely high cost over the standard of care maybe that's why insurance companies are hesitant to further contribute to the grotesque prophets of big pharma. I don't know if you remember but we're supposed to hate big pharma now that JFK Jr is the head of the FDA
Big Pharma and Big Insurance are all tied to the corrupt government.
He's rolling the dice. He has the capital. Its his life, his choice. Insurance... finance should not be a factor.
Howie - RFK jr. has nothing to do with ObamaCare or all the other gov controlled programs we are forced into.
I don’t want a President that can intervene in every personal hardship
I don't want a President who is expected to intervene in every personal hardship. That way lies madness - not to mention resentment, stasis, and endless cavil.
I guess you don't see me irony, peachy that for $150,000 treatment the improvement is only a little over 6% from the standard protocols. This has nothing to do with Obamacare it has everything to do with big pharma selling people hope.
Vance is correct. We are not omniscient. Although, there are many pretenders to the throne.
Obamacare ensured it would remain an unaffordable, unavailable choice with shared responsibility approaching 40 trillion dollars in public debt, private credit, and extracted capital schemes.
Crazy that the medical industry is so corrupt and money mad. I recently got a bill for my standard generic drugs, I only paid 6 dollars. But the pre-insurance cost was $1000! I paid $700 for my daughter's post-surgery 7 day stay in the Hospital. Just a standard Hospital bed - no frills. THe pre-insurance cost was $200 thousand! Is the Government paying this for the uninsured? Even the "Insurance company allowed cost" was $16,000. Thats over 1500 a day.
Obamacare should have been a limited experiment, to, ironically, demonstrate it was a viable choice, and not a forward-looking "burden"... burden. As it turned out, it was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Health insurance (used to be) a hedge against getting very sick but not dying from it. You can afford to die but not pay for the treatments that might save you. So you buy health insurance to cover a certain range of expenses.
The insurance company has to limit the costs though or you couldn't afford the premiums necessary, so there are limits to what you get and you're back to certain things being fatal, which you can afford on your own.
The market adjustment of ranges is completely wiped out by subsidized premiums and you get "arbitrary' rules rationing the payout instead of your being able to afford the insurance in the first place rationing it.
Good for Scott Adams. Hope the treatment will work. Adams is a perfect example of the randomness of Life. Adams was a "health nut" except for his MJ obsession. But he get cancer regardless.
I assume, I hope, the republicans have labored over a feasible alternative to Obamacare. I don’t know why they’re not talking about this every single day the government is shut down.
Haven't you heard? They are going to announce their new, cheaper, more comprehensive alternative in two weeks.
Just be patient.
Nobody talks about the cost of Health care. This must be addressed since its the major problem. Instead people think we should have the Government should pay for everything. But like college costs, if you dont address the underlying cost, the problem problem will exist.
In 2015, Scott Adams was one of the first public figures to identify that Trump was a legitimate candidate because he had the right 'stack' of talents. For that, he lost speaking engagements and several media chains dropped his comic strip. Probably cost him $50-60 million in lost revenue.
I freely admit that back in '15 I took him as a gadfly. But he was right
In 2015, Scott Adams was one of the first public figures to identify that Trump was a legitimate candidate because he had the right 'stack' of talents. For that, he lost speaking engagements and several media chains dropped his comic strip. Probably cost him $50-60 million in lost revenue.
I freely admit that back in '15 I took him as a gadfly. But he was right
The economic warfare against Scott Adams (via destruction of Dilbert) is one of the more egregious instances of the left's war against free speech. The resulting stress he has endured cannot have been good for his health. I will miss him and his many original and sometimes off-kilter observations. We need more like him.
Adams is a pragmatic Bussinessman type (despite having a cartoon script). He's not only not religious, he doesnt really understand politics. I think he was brainwashed to think everyone acts in good faith, everyone is out for $$, and that's it.
That's why he got cancelled. He was just doing an abstract "I think Trump will because of blah blah" and he was shocked when the Left got upset and and destroyed him. He didn't see it coming because it didn't seem "Logical" or "reasonable".
These flippin’ fruit bats can’t run faster or far enough from 0bamaCare.
Because we live in an age of miracles, health care is now able to extend life, cure formerly always-fatal diseases, repair horrible and disabling disfigurements... but all at a cost. (Add to this the fact that in the US we also expect a private room with every beeping, blinking instrument we can think of at our bedside at all times, per Thomas Sowell.) There's no getting around the fact that if we all want every single option on the table for every one of us, health insurance is going to be expensive.
The problem with single payer will be (is, where it already exists) that it provides only a single suite of options. A better solution would be a free market of plan options, with explanations of what you get dumber down to lowest common denominator levels so that even those of somewhat less than average intelligence can make a more or less informed decision about what plan they want to sitting for, based on what treatments will be covered. And the problem with that is that some percentage of people still won't try to understand it, and will instead assume that either single payer will cover everything and is therefore the thing to vote for, or that they themselves can afford something they can't afford and will put themselves into dire financial straits. Oh, and - because their healthy now - will forgo insurance altogether until they're sick and then join at their moment of highest cost, now to be spread among the pool because the individual didn't understand how insurance works or thought it would be copacetic to game the system this way. (I don't love mandatory purchase of health insurance, but if we're not going to disallow pre-existing conditions, how do we get around this scenario?)
Basically there's always going to be stupid. I'm not trying to be insulting; it's just a fact that there are people in the world - a lot of them, as is the nature of a normal distribution - who cannot understand consequences, the future, or deferred gratification.
The problem is price. Also costs, innate and regulatory. It is also profits, absolute and marginal. There is a lot of shared responsibility driving unaffordable, unavailable, not limited to medical. Also, health care that begins at home with personal Choice... uh, choice.
"Oh, and - because their healthy now - will forgo insurance altogether until they're sick and then join at their moment of highest cost..."
It would help to separate the concept of "health insurance" from "health care", not that I have any hope of this actually happening.
As has been said by thousands before me, you don't buy auto insurance to cover oil changes or fire insurance after your house has burned down.
RCOCEAN II said, "Nobody talks about the cost of Health care."
Actually people talk about it all the time, specifically that American healthcare is one of the few things on earth you don't know the price of which before you pay for it. American healthcare pricing is the OG Schrödinger's Cat of black-box-economics. Asking a Magic 8 Ball how much something will cost is probably more reliable.
And BTW, Obamacare aka ACA made this worse, not better. Figures...
Much/Most of what is wrong with insurance and medicine today was purposely added with the ACA to break our system and make people willing to accept socialized medicine. The stupid thing is so many think there will be less red tape and bureaucracy with the government vs. insurance.
Obamacare makes everything so expensive that people have to beg bureaucrats to take money from the pot of gold they lord over.
Where did these bureaucrats get this pot of gold? They take thousands of dollars out of my paycheck every month.
Obamneycare is an evil system designed by republicans and implemented by democrats.
Of course all of those republicans are democrats now but it is incumbent on everyone to realize where this evil originated from and who the evil people are.
Much/Most of what is wrong with insurance and medicine today was purposely added with the ACA to break our system and make people willing to accept socialized medicine.
Is there a socialized medicine program anywhere that doesn’t ration healthcare by age? Note for Gen-Z and Millennials — some day you will be old too.
You people are so delusional. Sure, Obamacare has inflated healthcare costs. But you say nothing about the explosion of chronic disease due to excessive consumption of ultra high processed food and general overall lethargy.
Once again, you are looking for simplistic solutions to a problem that you and mostly solve yourself instead you are hopelessly addicted to the shifting of responsibility to an outside entity and have some doctor slice you open blast you with radiation and feed you massive amounts of poisons instead of eating a Mediterranean diet and getting off your fat ass once in awhile to take a walk in the woods
Seventy percent of Americans may now be classified as obese, according to a new study authored by Harvard Medical School researchers investigating an updated definition for obesity.
This figure is up from 40 percent of the population who meet the old threshold for obesity, defined as a Body Mass Index higher than 30.
The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission proposed an amended definition of obesity this year that would consider fat distribution in addition to BMI. This revised definition now “includes anthropometric measurements, which are measurements of body composition — particularly waist circumference and hip circumference,” said HMS professor Steven Grinspoon, who was the senior author on the Harvard study.
>Vance said...
This reminds me of a perennial question that many people face: they truly believe in God, and that God can cure people and heal impossible problems. And, like me, I've seen it: people who were going to die got healed.
But then, what about those that also were going to die, and prayed, and had faith... and died anyway? Why does God save some and not others?<
Interesting question. I submit that examining the essential premise there should pretty obviously at least be on the list of possible answers...
Trump's basic plan as President was: (1) get the economy humming; (2) stop fighting wars (see (1)); and, (3) run around doing good deeds until everyone loved him. Really a shame that half the country wasn't supportive of that.
Well, Rory, when will the economy start humming?
I also note that we have have a carrier just off Venezuela and Trump threatened to send troops to Nigeria over the weekend, so #2 doesn't seem to be doing that great.
Mr Beast already has #3 covered.
The left demand cost-free/ free health care - down to free basics. While people afford 10,000 --- 20,000 - 30,000 vacations and fancy cars - they want free gov health care.
Won't work.
Lets save the free healthcare for those who really need it.
Americans are so used to the leftist narratives - they have forgotten what insurance is for.
Democrats make pay out of pocket illegal. Really.
yes. total bullshit.
"Actually people talk about it all the time, specifically that American healthcare is one of the few things on earth you don't know the price of which before you pay for it"
Yeah, that's another Goddamn problem. Its not just that the price of the procedure varies, its how much your insurance company will pay, and how much you get stuck with is never clear. You have to call them up and get a quote. And sometimes, they give you the wrong numbeer.
Another problem? The illusion of choice. If you have a medical emergency, you don't have the ability to "shop around". You're more or less stuck.
I recently read that 21 blue states are deliberately putting illegals on medicare and giving them snap and other benefits. Then when you bring that up, the leftist lie and say "Thats not happening, that's against the Law". LOL.
Even legal immigration is a problem. Whenever we go for medical care, it seems 1/3 of the people are immigrants and over 55. Why are we letting old people immigrate to the USA? These people are a medical burden.
The first step toward making healthcare affordable is to make health care make sense. Pass a law that mandates 100% pricing transparency, itemized on every medical invoice issued to the consumer.
I was sure Scott Adams was gone for sure yesterday. Metastasized bone cancer is a killer. But here is back. I'm happy he made it.
Howard said...
Seventy percent of Americans may now be classified as obese, according to a new study authored by Harvard Medical School researchers investigating an updated definition for obesity.
Quite a coincidence that study coming out just as every single drug manufacturer is jumping on the GLP-1 bandwagon.
The answer to why God spares some and not others is: "we don't know what God knows." For some, their time may be up. For others, they are needed elsewhere in God's kingdom. For still others, God uses them to bless the rest of us. And probably for not a few: God isn't going to stand in the way of our own stupidity all the time. If you smoke 4 packs a day for 20 years and get lung cancer, God will honor your choice....
Friend to Trump (kiss ass)= get the care you "deserve".
Victoria - our healthcare payment system has been F-ed up by YOUR party. deary.
"Why does a rich guy like Scott Adams have Kaiser insurance?" He didn't say it was Kaiser insurance. He said Kaiser Permanente is his "health care provider." Kaiser owns and operates hospitals and other health care providers and facilities as well as being an insurer. He could very well well be paying out of his own pocket, not sure. He could be eligible for Medicare but it usually does not cover treatments like this I don't think. He's never mentioned anything about his own status with respect to Social Security and Medicare. He is certainly wealthy enough he doesn't need either.
I had liver cancer in 2006, and required a transplant to keep me going more than a few months. Obviously, I got it. Just the transplant cost $500,000 in 2006 with follow up expenses estimated at another $500K. This was before Obamacare, and all I ever paid until Obamacare passed was a single $100 copay and monthly premiums of about $250. I was very healthy before that and never went to the hospital. That was insurance. I don't know what Obamacare is, but it's not insurance.
Related to MountainMan; it is sad how many conflate "insurer" with "health care provider" when discussing US healthcare industry. I think a lot of our problem with healthcare cost is people don't understand such differences.
The man sacrificed his career for saying what he believes. I hope he's with us much longer.
Peachy, healthcare allready screwed up when Dems took over. Unfortunately, the Repubs have done NOTHING, i repeat, NOTHING to improve it. Your president has had a "plan" for the last 10 years and hasn't even bothered to show it to anyone of note. You won the problem now, especially with the MAGA determioantion to ruin everything.
Unfortunately, the Repubs have done NOTHING, i repeat, NOTHING to improve it.
You fucked it up. Why is it our responsibility to fix it?
Also, medical and health care are severable.
Scott Adams was on a waiting list because its a brand-new expensive treatment. I don't know if his being over 70 was factored in. I doubt it helped move to the top of the list.
whoops he's 68, but that's still old. I'd bet they prioritize people based on age and how much the drug will help them. But that's just a guess.
Yes, I periodically find myself in one kind of waiting room or another where, in the middle of the day, someone on the MUSAK-adjacent television is trying to get everyone to buy "auto care insurance" that's analogous to the way we treat health insurance: pay a premium every month, and (some of) your repairs and maintenance will cost you nothing out of pocket! (At that moment! But you will already have paid for them several times over through your premiums!)
I want the ability to fund a health savings account that isn't use-or-lose and the investment of which can be directed as I wish, with which I will pay for my doctor's appointments and routine procedures like mammograms and colonoscopies, and I want catastrophic health insurance with a deductible of my choosing that affects my premiums and therefore reflects what I'm comfortable with paying monthly and out of pocket, for when and if things are not routine. Is that too much to ask?
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"But then, what about those that also were going to die, and prayed, and had faith... and died anyway? Why does God save some and not others"
No one wants to die. Certainly not me. But it's possible that what waits on the other side of death is unfathomably better than our current state. If that's the case, then the meaning of "why does God save some and not others" changes profoundly.
Who could replace such an interesting guy? Glad he took action/wants more time. We need Scott
Sometimes we want the government to be listening to our conversations.
I've had Medicare allow tests to see whether the cancer cleared but refuse to pay for their interpretation. That got straightened out but the system could use a visit from DOGE.
As for Scott Adams problem, the cost wouldn't be just the cost of the drugs. There'll be a cost for anytime spent at a facility, a cost for the IV drip, a cost for tests associated with monitoring, a cost for extracting blood for tests, a cost for interpreting tests. Many costs if anything goes wrong and he spends time in the hospital. As a new procedure there'd be no economies of scale. The cost is probably in the millions.
Kaiser? Res ipsa loquitor
Victoria - Healthcare became rotten after decades of the slow yet steady slide to "single payer" - where we are headed - and it will suck. That is 100% the Dems plan.
Victoria - Those of us who don't want the government involved, are in the minority. You cannot blame the minority for fucking up something they didn't fuck up.
Jim at (3:34) Thank you.
The dems voted for Obamacare on party line vote. But the R's didn't fix it.
Well - true enough they didn't fulfil their promise to eliminate it. John McCain - looking at you.
To fix obamacare - it must be eliminated.
It used to be the case that if your doctor said you needed something, you got it. Insurance company executives squealed. Doctors were making too much money! They were ordering unnecessary tests! To hold down the cost of medical care you needed to rein in the doctors!
Obamacare was the final victory of the insurance industry over the doctors. So how'd that work out? Absolutely everything is worse and absolutely everything costs more. Nice job, government and insurance douchebags. May you all get the same quality care that you foisted on everyone else.
"Update: Getting Pluvicto (the cancer drug) tomorrow, via Kaiser Northern California.
The Trump administration works fast.
Amazing.
For context, I waited months for the drug, like everyone else. But I think my files got misplaced or something and that glitch just got corrected. Not sure."
https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1985407720128987487
HistoryDoc said...
Why does a rich guy like Scott Adams have Kaiser insurance? Scott is wealthy enough to pay for any medical treatment he wants
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Could use some light on this. What use is "fuc you money" if not ready to deploy in the fight for your life. Maybe the way the trial is set up, requires a certain approach..
Kinda reminds me of celebs who used concierge doctors to get off label access to Covid treatments plebes were blocked from. I still hate my local pharmacy for the refusal to fill an rx and clearly lie about the situation.
Drout - 6:37
that.
On May 25, Scott Adams revealed that he only expects to live for a few more months, sharing with viewers, “But, I’ve had it longer than Biden has had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted to having it. So my life expectancy is maybe the summer. I expect to be checking out of this domain sometime this summer.”
Systemic radiotherapeutic ligand therapy, such as Pluvicto has been reserved for those who had chemotherapy, but now, as of May 2025, its authorization no longer requires that step.
Adams was only on chemotherapy until now, but Pluvicto has shut down cancer progression among affected patients. But how long will it extend life? The drug was approved in 2022, and patient reports are favorable. Six treatments over 12 months is the standard.
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