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American healthcare is the most expensive

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in the world, yet for

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all the money we put into it, Americans

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are sicker and die younger than people

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in other wealthy countries. In

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every country, your life expecting

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is going up. In every country they're spending

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more. But per dollar, how much is life

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expectancy going up? Uh? And in the US

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it's a lot less than in other countries.

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I'm John Tazzi, a healthcare reporter at

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Bloomberg News. On the new season of

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Prognosis, we look at how the American

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healthcare system got to this point and

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how it's hefty price tag forces people

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to make difficult decisions in their everyday

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lives. We were looking to buy

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a house, so we had been saving

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up for a down payment, and we were thinking, like,

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well, one uncovered

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e er visit could wipe

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out a significant chunk of what we

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have as a down payment for a house. Will

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also look at what some people are trying to do

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to fix the system. Patients

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didn't feel fulfilled, physicians didn't feel

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fulfilled, and then

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we got to a point where

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after they changed

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how we were practicing and push more volume and

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so forth, we just said

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we would have enough. The new season

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of Prognosis is out now. You

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can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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or wherever you get your podcasts.