Health Care Part 1: Everyone does it better than us (with T. R. Reid)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to health care, every country in the world is running their own version of the same experiment—and the results vary widely in terms of cost and patient outcomes. In the first episode of a two-part exploration of health care, author T. R. Reid takes Nick and Stephanie on a tour of medical systems around the world. T. R. Reid is the author of the bestselling books ‘The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care’ and ‘A Fine Mess—A Global Quest for a Fairer, Simpler, and More Efficient Tax Code’. He has become one of the nation’s best-known reporters through his books and articles, his documentary films, his reporting for the Washington Post, and his frequent commentary on NPR’s Morning Edition. Twitter: @therealtrreid Further reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402544-the-healing-of-america

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0:00.0	I have this radical notion that if one of my neighbors is sick or living in pain we
0:05.7	ought to provide them health care.
0:07.2	The National Academy of Sciences says about 22,000 Americans die every year of treatable diseases because they can't afford a doctor.
0:15.0	No other country lets that happen.
0:17.0	I like to think of it as the world's largest price fixing scheme. From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics with
0:32.4	Nick Hanauer.
0:34.0	An honest conversation about how to make capitalism work for everyone. I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:47.0	I'm Stephanie Ervin.
0:50.0	I run a lot of our advocacy and campaign work here at Civic Ventures.
0:54.0	So Nick, this is super exciting. We have so much great territory to cover with health care
0:59.0	that we're going to do two episodes on it.
1:01.0	Yeah, well, that's because health care in America is such an
1:04.4	ungodly mess, so there's a lot to say. It's true. And can you set up like
1:09.2	why it's so important that we're talking on an economics podcast about the issue of health care?
1:14.0	Well because if you care about how ordinary people are doing in their lives economically
1:19.8	you can't ignore one of the biggest costs that,
1:24.1	necessary costs, unavoidable costs that people face in their lives.
1:28.1	And in the United States of America, that is health care.
1:31.7	Obviously, in the rest of the industrialized world that is much
1:36.4	much much less of a concern for folks because they have systems that both are much, much more efficient.
1:44.7	They just deliver a lot better,
1:46.3	a lot more health care to a lot more people
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