Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Recomes to the post 2016 Democratic Party and the rise of Bernie Sanders debates over the future of America's healthcare system are near the center,

especially during the 2020 Democratic primary.

For a bunch of political reasons, however, mainly the lack of a strong Democratic Senate majority,

and a Republican party still smarting from the failed Obama-K-Repu-offert in 2017,

healthcare is not at the center of the American political agenda at the moment.

That said, the system remains fundamentally broken,

and I'm excited to speak with one of the authors of a new book,

arguing that it's time to just tear down the entire system,

rather than continuing to apply band-aids to paper over big problems.

Namely, one, the lack of insurance from more than 30 million Americans,

and two, the spiraling cost of healthcare ever upwards.

I guess today is Amy Finkelstein, she's a professor at MIT's Economics Department,

and in MacArthur, genius Grant Winner.

She's written, we've got you covered, rebuilding American healthcare out today.

As I said, this is really not the hottest year at the moment,

but I guarantee you, we'll be coming back to this at some point in the near future,

so always good to both check up on these topics and learn a bit along the way.

Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation, for an podcast work.

Hope you all enjoy this conversation.

Amy Finkelstein, welcome to the Realignment.

Thanks for having me here, Marshall.

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