Charles Silver On His Book 'Overcharged- Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care'
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. |
| 0:02.0 | As some of you know, because I talk about my personal life on the air, it's all I got to talk about. |
| 0:08.5 | And I share how I interact with the policies and politics that we talk about. |
| 0:14.5 | Because at the end of the day, these aren't academic discussions, right? |
| 0:18.3 | If the government takes over our health care, that's going to affect you. |
| 0:23.4 | And just because you're young and healthy and haven't needed health care yet or recently, |
| 0:28.6 | you don't realize that. And you see it as some sort of arcane or ethereal, existential discussion. |
| 0:37.3 | But that's not where it is for me. |
| 0:39.9 | I have a brother who died of the clot shot, |
| 0:42.4 | a perfectly able-bodied law enforcement officer with over 30 years |
| 0:46.7 | who died of the clot shot January 25th, 2022. |
| 0:52.3 | My father is 84, and since he was 20 years old and had to be discharged from the |
| 0:59.9 | Coast Guard on his deathbed with a severe case of diabetes, and they didn't know how to treat it |
| 1:06.6 | back then. They sent him home to die. And he read and experimented, and here we are, he's 84 and still alive, still battling diabetes by the day. He is in constant contact with doctors, and many of them have told me, your dad knows more about diabetes than diabetes doctors, do, because in an era before we had proper insulin, he was managing his blood sugar. |
| 1:30.1 | That's unheard of. |
| 1:31.1 | And he still has his vision in all 10 of his fingers and toes. |
| 1:34.6 | Well, he's a man of great self-discipline and the willingness to experiment on himself and get enough sleep and not drink and, you know, do the things that are necessary. |
| 1:44.7 | And then, of course, my mother, five years younger than him, my father was supposed to go first, |
| 1:49.7 | and my mother would nurse him until the end of his life. And she up and passes on us. |
| 1:56.3 | And she ended up having ALS that basically just eventually took over her body and left her |
| 2:05.2 | unable to breathe. |
| 2:06.3 | Her lungs just wouldn't function. |
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