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Speaker 1: American healthcare is the most expensive in the world, yet

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Speaker 1: for all the money we put into it, Americans are

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Speaker 1: sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries.

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Speaker 1: In every country, your life expecting is going up. In

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

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Speaker 1: is life expectancy going up? Uh? And in the US

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

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Speaker 1: a healthcare reporter at Bloomberg News. On the new season

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Speaker 1: of Prognosis, we look at how the American healthcare system

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Speaker 1: got to this point and how it's hefty price tag

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Speaker 1: forces people to make difficult decisions in their everyday lives.

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Speaker 1: We were looking to buy a house, so we had

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

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Speaker 1: one uncovered e er visit could wipe out a significant

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Speaker 1: chunk of what we have as a down payment for

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Speaker 1: a house. Will also look at what some people are

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

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Speaker 1: physicians didn't feel fulfilled, and then we got to a

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Speaker 1: point where after they changed how we were practicing and

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Speaker 1: push more volume and so forth, we just said we

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Speaker 1: would have enough. The new season of Prognosis is out now.

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