Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs

Americans are paying more and getting less for their health care than ever before. On the new season of Prognosis, reporter John Tozzi explores what went wrong. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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, your life expecting is going up. In
every country they're spending more. But per dollar, how much
is life expectancy going up? Uh? And in the US
it's a lot less than in other countries. I'm John Tazzi,

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a healthcare reporter at Bloomberg News. On the new season
of Prognosis, we look at how the American healthcare system
got to this point and how it's 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 e er visit could wipe out a significant

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chunk of what we have as a down payment for
a house. Will also look at what some people are
trying to do to fix the system. 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

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push more volume and so forth, we just said we
would have enough. The new season of Prognosis is out now.
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