Last episode, Lisa Cardillo, a mom from my home state of Michigan, who tragically experienced

a heart attack at the age of 36, shared her story with us.

Through her experience, we diagnosed the American healthcare system's many problems.

See, Lisa's heart attack, or her husband's cancer before, weren't their biggest worries.

When your medical bills become more stressful than your husband's brain cancer diagnosis,

something is not right.

The system is sick, and we outline five different ways how.

Let's recap.

First and foremost, our healthcare system is a business, with multiple industries profiting

when we get sick.

That leaves Americans paying for healthcare rather than the health we actually want.

Second, the illusion of choice.

We think we have choices in healthcare, but really, we're restricted to getting care where

we are, and meanwhile, our choices are declining.

Third, the system leaves us relying on the same folks to tell us which wrong, and to

sell us the solution, allowing them to upsell us.

Fourth, the third-party-payer problem means that we're stuck having to ask insurance

to pay for the healthcare we need after the fact.

And fifth, costs are out of control, and rather than fight to reduce them, health insurers

have just figured out ways to pass those expanding costs back on to us.

Today, we're going to talk about how politicians are proposing to fix it.

That's expensive, and what's unsustainable is the current health care system.

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