WEBVTT - Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs

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<v Speaker 1>American healthcare is the most expensive in the world, yet

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<v Speaker 1>for all the money we put into it, Americans are

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<v Speaker 1>sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries.

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<v Speaker 1>In every country, your life expecting is going up. In

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<v Speaker 1>every country they're spending more. But per dollar, how much

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<v Speaker 1>is life expectancy going up? Uh? And in the US

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<v Speaker 1>it's a lot less than in other countries. I'm John Tazzi,

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<v Speaker 1>a healthcare reporter at Bloomberg News. On the new season

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<v Speaker 1>of Prognosis, we look at how the American healthcare system

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<v Speaker 1>got to this point and how it's hefty price tag

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<v Speaker 1>forces people to make difficult decisions in their everyday lives.

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<v Speaker 1>We were looking to buy a house, so we had

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<v Speaker 1>been saving up for a down payment, and we were thinking, like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>one uncovered e er visit could wipe out a significant

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<v Speaker 1>chunk of what we have as a down payment for

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<v Speaker 1>a house. Will also look at what some people are

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<v Speaker 1>trying to do to fix the system. Patients didn't feel fulfilled,

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<v Speaker 1>physicians didn't feel fulfilled, and then we got to a

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<v Speaker 1>point where after they changed how we were practicing and

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<v Speaker 1>push more volume and so forth, we just said we

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<v Speaker 1>would have enough. The new season of Prognosis is out now.

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