#1207 Bleeding us to death (Health Care Costs)
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🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Air Date: 9/4/2018
Today we take a look at many of the underlying reasons that health care in America is so expensive and how those who benefit from the status quo work to keep it that way
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Ch. 1: Exposing Massive Waste In Our For-Profit Medical System - @RingOfFireRadio - Air Date 10-30-17
Investigative journalist Marshall Allen discusses his latest piece on systematic waste in health care costs that companies are making a profit from.
Ch. 2: Matthias Müllenbeck: What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy? - @TEDTalks - Air Date 4-18-18
What if we incentivized doctors to keep us healthy instead of paying them only when we're sick? This shift from a sick care system to a health care system could save us from unnecessary costs and risky procedures -- and keep us healthier for longer.
Ch. 3: The Town That Loves Death - Planet Money - Air Date 10-5-16
We'll take you to a place where dying has become acceptable dinner conversation for teenagers and senior citizens alike. It's a place that also happens to have the lowest Medicare spending of any region in the country.
Far too many news outlets chose to only report on the costs of universal coverage while neglecting to mention any of the savings which would result in lower net health care expenditures.
The morbidly rich are wasting no time countering the momentum progressives are making towards universal health care, and now corporate healthcare interests scared of losing their obscene profits are trying to scare you into giving up single payer.
We examine the primary talking points against Single Payer and other big government programs and how to combat them with guest Stephanie Kelton.
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| 0:32.4 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:36.7 | learn about many of the underlying reasons that health care in America is so expensive |
| 0:42.2 | and how those who benefit from the status quo work to keep it that way. |
| 0:46.6 | Clips today come from Ring of Fire, a TED Talk by Matthias Mullenbeck, Planet Money, |
| 0:52.0 | Counter-Spin, the Tom Hartman program, and Cytations Nated. |
| 1:03.3 | Your latest story is part of a series where you're examining really just questions of |
| 1:10.9 | waste in the medical industry. |
| 1:14.5 | Recap for us some of the big elements of this. |
| 1:18.7 | Well Sam, I'm trying to kind of recast the way we look at all this health care spending |
| 1:24.5 | in this country. |
| 1:25.5 | I mean, one of the first things to think about is that we spend a lot of money on health |
| 1:30.6 | care and that's my money and your money and the money of taxpayers and all the people |
| 1:36.5 | getting the treatment are the ones who are paying for the care. |
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