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We spend one and a half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we

aren't any healthier for it.

This is one of the reasons that insurance premiums have gone up three times faster than wages.

It's why so many employers, especially small businesses, are forcing their employees to pay more for insurance

or are dropping their coverage.

It used to seem so easy.

A trip to the doctor's office, a prescription, sometimes a hospital stay, health care, plain and simple.

But somewhere along the line, healthcare became an incredibly complex and lucrative business.

It's a world in which patients can feel unheard and lost.

But increasingly, some are making their voices known and fighting back.

Welcome to Prognosis, a podcast about health, medical technology, and the mind-blowing innovation underway across the globe.

I'm your host, Michelle Faye-Cortez.

Today, there are two major power centers in the drug world, those who make medicines and those who pay for most of them.

That's big pharma and insurers.

These two camps often battle over how health care dollars in the U.S. are spent.

But where does that leave patients, people like you and me?

We'll hear from patients who have taken matters into their own hands by helping pay for

the development of treatments for their own disease.

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