This is The Reason Interview with Nicholas.

My guest today is my reason colleague Eric Bain, who's hosting a second season of his

very, very, very excellent podcast, why we can't have nice things.

The first season looked at how little understood trade policies and regulations,

screwed with the pricing and availability of everything from baby formula to

women's underwear to frozen chicken.

The new season focuses on laws and policies that screw up the supply and costs of health

care.

It debuts on Thursday, September 5th, and the first episode features billionaire Mark Cuban talking about his company

Cost Plus Drugs, which sells prescription drugs directly to consumers at super low prices.

I talk with Eric about that and the other episodes he has on tap and subscribe to why

we can't have nice things wherever you listen to your podcast.

Here is The Reason Interview with Eric Bame.

Eric Bame, great to talk to you.

Glad to be here, Nick. Thanks for having me on.

So the second season of Why we can't have nice things

is all about how little understood or, you know, kind of invisible medical regulations

make everything worse when it comes to getting health care or even coming up with new ways

of treating diseases and things like that,

right?

Yeah, that's right.

So the first season of this podcast, which hopefully everybody listening to this has already

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