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American health care 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, your life expectancy is going up

and every country they're spending more,

but per dollar, how much is life expectancy going up?

And in the US, it's a lot less

than in other countries.

I'm John Tazzie, 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.

Patience 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.

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