Arnold Kling on Hospitals and Health Care

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🗓️ 30 June 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the death of his father and the lessons to be learned for how hospitals treat patients and our health care system treats hospitals.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org.
0:33.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:36.6	My guest today is Arnold Kling.
0:38.5	He blogs with Brian Kaplan at Econ Log, which is part of Econ Live, the Library of Economics
0:43.4	and Liberty, which Econ Talk is also part of.
0:47.5	Arnold's latest book is The Crisis of Abundance, rethinking how we pay for health care.
0:51.7	Arnold, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:53.5	Thanks Russ.
0:54.5	Arnold, your father recently passed away, and you had a lot of interesting and moving
0:59.3	things to say about his life when you wrote about him at Econ Log.
1:03.2	One of the things you've reflected on is the medical care he received at the end of his
1:06.4	life.
1:07.4	Talk about what you learned from that experience.
1:10.4	Well, it's one thing to see statistics that suggest that there are problems with American
1:16.7	and self-care system.
1:18.1	Like you'll read that there are so many thousands of people who die from hospital-born infections.
1:27.3	You'll read about very high medical error rates, and you've had Robin Hansen on this show.
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