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American healthcare is the most expensive in the world. Yet for all the money we put into it,

Americans are sicker and die younger than

people in other wealthy countries. In every country, life expectancy is going up, in every

country they're spending more, but per dollar, how much is life expectancy going up? And in the U.S.,

it's a lot less than in other countries. I'm John Tazi, a health care reporter at Bloomberg News.

On the new season of prognosis, we look at how the American health care system got to this point,

and how its hefty price tag forces people to make difficult decisions in their everyday lives.

We were looking to buy a house, so we had been saving up for a down payment, and we

were thinking like, well, one uncovered ER visit could wipe out a significant chunk of

what we have as a down payment for a house.

We'll also look at what some people are trying to do to fix the system.

Patients didn't feel fulfilled. Patients didn't feel fulfilled.

Physicians didn't feel fulfilled.

And then we got to a point where after they changed how we were practicing and pushed

more volume and so forth, we just said we'd have enough.

The new season of prognosis launches January 9th on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Not everybody likes talking about money.

Some people find it awkward.

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