Healthcare Dissected pt 1: "Nobody Knew Healthcare Could Be So Complicated"
America Dissected
Incision Media LLC
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Throughout this series, we’ve considered how the straining relationship between science and government has led to a variety of public health issues, from the rise of superbugs to the epidemic of loneliness. Here, we take our scalpel to the most obvious problem of them all: the American healthcare system itself. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed talks with Lisa Cardillo whose scary brush with the healthcare system helps us deconstruct the business of American healthcare, where all of us are both the product and the consumer.
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| 0:00.0 | Over the past eight episodes, we've talked about what matters in health, |
| 0:03.3 | about the scary, the outrageous, and the just plain weird. |
| 0:08.7 | We've examined what happens when we fail science and when government fails us. |
| 0:12.9 | You know, you just still don't feel safe drinking the water. |
| 0:15.8 | You never know if the pipes are getting fixed. |
| 0:18.6 | We've explored some obvious health challenges and some that are not so obvious. |
| 0:22.8 | Social isolation we now know is terrifyingly dangerous. |
| 0:26.7 | It can, it can lead to all variety of health problems. |
| 0:31.2 | But in our last two episodes, we're going to take on the elephant in the room. |
| 0:35.0 | A topic we haven't hit on that comes up in almost every interview we've done. |
| 0:39.6 | This is what decides whether my child lives or dies because you can't verify that I'm |
| 0:45.5 | able to pay to keep my insurance going. |
| 0:48.6 | Why are we living in the world of GoFundMe, healthcare? |
| 0:53.7 | If you're lucky enough not to have to think about healthcare, |
| 0:56.4 | be thankful. But it's still the safety that you hope will catch you when you need it. |
| 1:00.5 | For others who have to use it every day, it's all you think about. |
| 1:05.0 | Either way, everyone can agree that American healthcare is a lot. |
| 1:09.3 | Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated. |
| 1:13.0 | Except maybe that guy. |
| 1:16.7 | So yeah, most of us know that the American healthcare system is broke, |
| 1:20.4 | but a lot of us don't understand why or how. See, the system is closed off, |
| 1:25.2 | hard to penetrate. The folks who make millions off of it, off of us, |
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