Speaker 1: American healthcare is the most expensive in the world, yet
Speaker 1: for all the money we put into it, Americans are
Speaker 1: sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries.
Speaker 1: In every country, your life expecting is going up. In
Speaker 1: every country they're spending more. But per dollar, how much
Speaker 1: is life expectancy going up? Uh? And in the US
Speaker 1: it's a lot less than in other countries. I'm John Tazzi,
Speaker 1: a healthcare reporter at Bloomberg News. On the new season
Speaker 1: of Prognosis, we look at how the American healthcare system
Speaker 1: got to this point and how it's hefty price tag
Speaker 1: forces people to make difficult decisions in their everyday lives.
Speaker 1: We were looking to buy a house, so we had
Speaker 1: been saving up for a down payment, and we were thinking, like, well,
Speaker 1: one uncovered e er visit could wipe out a significant
Speaker 1: chunk of what we have as a down payment for
Speaker 1: a house. Will also look at what some people are
Speaker 1: trying to do to fix the system. Patients didn't feel fulfilled,
Speaker 1: physicians didn't feel fulfilled, and then we got to a
Speaker 1: point where after they changed how we were practicing and
Speaker 1: push more volume and so forth, we just said we
Speaker 1: would have enough. The new season of Prognosis is out now.
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