Good and Bad Trends in Healthcare with Dr. Dhruv Khullar

Lost Debate

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ravi welcomes back Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a physician and assistant professor at Cornell and contributing writer at The New Yorker, to tackle recent trends in healthcare and longevity. They start by discussing how hospital and private equity acquisitions of physician practices have influenced healthcare costs and the quality of care, including the results of a new study by The Economist that explores how and why healthcare costs in America have remained generally consistent since 2010. Finally, Ravi and Dhruv examine Dhruv’s recent piece in The New Yorker that looks at President Joe Biden’s age, what his age tells us about his fitness for office, and how public perception on this topic could influence the 2024 election. Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics.
0:03.1	I'm Ravi Gupta and today we're welcoming back Dr. Drew Kolar, who's a physician and assistant
0:08.9	professor of health policy and economics at Cornell Medical School.
0:13.5	And he is also a writer at The New Yorker where he writes about medicine, health care, and
0:18.3	politics.
0:18.9	He was on a few weeks ago.
0:23.9	And Drew, we had to have you back because some stuff happened in my life that I figured I would ask you about, but also there's so much more to talk about
0:27.9	on health care.
0:28.9	So I'm excited to have you back on.
0:30.7	Yeah, happy to be back.
0:31.9	So okay, two weeks ago, maybe 10 days ago now, I don't even know.
0:35.6	My dad went in for a heart scan from this company called
0:39.2	Sorin Medical, which I hadn't heard of before. It was a commercial heart scan, like non-invasive
0:44.2	heart scan. And they wound up finding a long blockage of the proximal LAD artery. I guess this is
0:52.3	what they, this is the blockage commonly associated with
0:54.7	they called the Widowmaker event. And then they also found a 95% blockage in his right
1:00.1	coronary and two branches of his left circumflex artery. So he had to, he was immediately sent in
1:06.2	for quadruple bypass surgery. Wow. And he had that procedure at Sinai and is in recovery now.
1:12.7	It all has been playing out over the course of the past 10 days.
1:14.7	But it made me think about the conversation that you and I had, which was really about the
1:18.7	full body MRI scans, but these sort of commercial scans in general was kind of the topic.
1:25.4	And it just made me think, well think well okay not all scans are made
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