Ep. 541 Just How Much Has Government Screwed Up Health Care? An ER Doctor Explains -- and Tells Us How to Fix It
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We need more government involvement in health care, runs the conventional wisdom. But what if government itself is the problem? What if government has made it virtually impossible for the doctor to do his job the way we want him to? Emergency room physician Doug McGuff provides the details from his decades of experience.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 541. |
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| 0:46.2 | before Thanksgiving episode of the show. In the past, by the way, I would skip Thanksgiving, |
| 0:52.0 | or I would skip Christmas, or I would take a week off or whatever. |
| 0:55.8 | It's okay to take a week off, I suppose. But now that I'm just numbering the episodes, and |
| 1:00.3 | strictly speaking, there isn't really a Thanksgiving episode because I'm just numbering them, |
| 1:04.5 | and I just do a bunch of them, and then they run whenever they run. I think I'm just going to |
| 1:08.3 | produce episodes Monday through Friday from now until I |
| 1:10.8 | drop dead, and whatever day they fall on, they fall on. And if you don't listen to them on that day, |
| 1:16.2 | you'll get to them some other day. So that's what I'm going to do this week. I will have an |
| 1:19.8 | episode tomorrow. Some of you will probably be traveling. You can listen to an episode, you know, |
| 1:24.0 | instead of talking to your family. You can listen to an episode of the Tom Wood's |
| 1:27.5 | show. Isn't that super? For over two years, I've been driving a wedge between families by having |
| 1:32.8 | something to listen to instead of having some healthy family communication. Anyway, we're going to talk to |
| 1:37.7 | Dr. Doug McGuff today, who is co-author with Bob Murphy of this wonderful new book, The Primal |
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