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A very important topic today.

The value of human life. My guest today, Howard Friedman,

a leading statistician and health economist, teaches at Columbia. He has a new book, Ultimate

Price, the value we place on life. This is one of those books that causes me to pause because it's interesting as hell.

The subtext is controversial, but it's super important for all of us to think about.

Because the value of life often has a price tag on it, a monetary price tag. There's

inequalities. There's unfairness. Things sometimes don't make any sense. People know there are

problems because one group is treated one way and another group is treated another way.

At a base level of humanity, none of us like that. We all want to believe in the idea that we're all

equal. There's a certain fairness and that we're all valued the same. Now, of course, it gets more

complicated than that,

and this conversation is a great example of the complication.

Without any further delay,

let's jump right into my conversation today

with Howard Friedman talking about the value of human life.

Music of human life. Right now, I don't think there could be any more interesting topic. Well, there's a lot of

interesting topics in this world, but here you are somebody who

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