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On this episode of Newt's World, one in five Americans now has medical debt in collections

and rising healthcare costs today, threatening every small business in America.

In his recent book, The Price We Pay, What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It,

Dr. Marty McCarrie, one of the nation's leading healthcare experts, travels across America

and details why healthcare has become a bubble.

Drawing from on-the-ground stores, his research and his own experience, The Price We Pay,

paints a vivid picture of price-catching, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games

in need of a serious shaker. Dr. McCarrie shows how so much of healthcare spending

goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it.

Dr. McCarrie challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage

of caring for people when they are vulnerable.

The Price We Pay offers a roadmap for everyday Americans and business leaders

to get a better deal on their healthcare and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care.

The movement to restore medicine to its mission is alive and well, a mission that can

rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of healthcare.

As someone who has long been an advocate for healthcare reform and price transparency,

I am pleased to welcome my guest, Dr. Marty McCarrie. He is a surgical oncologist specializing

in minimally invasive surgery and a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins

University School of Medicine. He speaks nationally on disruptive innovation and healthcare.

Dr. Marty McCarrie, thank you for taking the time to help educate all of us and the work you've

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