And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections Correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

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Our guests today are Brian Blaze and John Graham from the Paragon Health Institute.

Ryan is Paragon's president and previously served as special assistant to the president for

health care in the first Trump administration. John is a visiting fellow at Paragon,

who has nearly three decades of health policy experience. We're going to need all of that

knowledge to delve into our topic today, and that is the mess of this health care system.

A $1.6 trillion per year hospital system alone that crushes patients all while the industry

claims it's barely surviving.

Paragon details it all in an alarming new report,

the hospital cost crisis,

how government policies drive consolidation,

undermine competition and fuel soaring prices.

Gentlemen,

thank you so much for joining us

in this addition to the Federalist Radio Hour.

Thank you.

Thank you. Well, you bet.

Listen, there's a lot of, a lot of blame that is going around. We'll talk about who is to ultimately blame for all of this, but your report really delves into some alarming statistics, And I'll be honest with you. This is a

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