Professor Charles Silver is our guest. He's a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, which I happen to believe is fantastic because I'm a graduate of same.

His book is overcharged. Why Americans pay too much for health care?

You mentioned that the problem began with Medicare Medicaid in the 60s, part of Lyndon Johnson's great society,

which turned out not to be. It was 2.0 of FDR's taking over of the American economy,

and it's hard to strip that back out of life. When Medicare got involved, so my dad's 84, my mom

recently passed, and I go in and review every expense, everything that comes in and all that,

this whole Medicare thing, I have a show sponsor called Senior Health Services.com, and he and his team

help people who are trying to navigate

Medicare. And every day I get someone who emails me and says, can you connect me with them?

And I forward it. And sometimes I stay involved for a little while just to see, you know,

kind of what they're working through. It's amazing to people that all of a sudden, I guess,

when you turn 65, you're getting robocalls and junk mail and all

it's medicare medicare and people had no idea now all of a sudden i've been you know dumped into the

medicare playground and i don't know why how does this even work

well uh how does this even work? Not too well.

I just recently hit that age myself,

so I can sympathize with those whose mailbox are crammed with Medicare

Advantage flyers and things of that sort.

I'm sick of seeing them.

And I'm not even using Medicare. I'm

still working, so I'm staying on my employer's health care system or health care insurance,

although that is very expensive and far too comprehensive. It's because of the mandates

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