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Gone are the days when it was part of the rhetorical repertoire of many American politicians to proclaim that US healthcare is the best in the world

Whether that was ever true or not

This proud and optimistic statement did take on the gloss of a trueism

But it's not something that many people are saying anymore

Although they are saying that there are ways that the system can become the best

But first we have to get to the bottom of what's gone wrong and to figure out just how busted the system is

Is there anything salvageable to build on or is it so broken that we need to erase what's there and start over with a clean slate?

Well, that sounds like the makings of a debate. So let's have it. Yes or no to this statement the US healthcare system is

Terminally broken a debate from intelligent squared US. I'm John Don Van

We are in Rochester, Minnesota in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation and its transform conference as always our debate

We'll go in three rounds and then the audience here in Rochester will vote to choose the winner and only one side wins

Our motion is the US healthcare system is terminally broken. Let's meet our debaters first the team are going for the motion

Please welcome Shannon Brownley

And Shannon you are a senior vice president of the Lowne Institute and a visiting scientist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

You are co-founder of the right care alliance that's a network of activist patients

clinicians and community leaders my question to you is how important is is it to have grassroots

Support in healthcare reform. It's absolutely essential the system isn't going to change itself from inside and it's going to need outside pressure

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