The series finale uses The Great Social Experiment of kidney care to give context and perspective to understand the flaws and opportunities of America's healthcare system. It looks at the past and present to understand why the USA doesn't have

A Tall Order

Nov 29th, 2022 31m 6s

The conclusion of Lance's story, an examination of our biases, and what drives human behavior.https://www.thegreatsocialexperiment.net/

No Recipient Located

Nov 29th, 2022 37m 10s

The seemingly impossible paradox of how most patients get an organ offer shortly after being added to the kidney transplant wait list, but still end up waiting years for a transplant. This episode explores the reasons and grave consequences. h

To Get You In, And Get You Out

Nov 29th, 2022 43m 59s

This episode explores how the perverse incentives between dialysis clinics and doctors goes deeper. Lance's story continues, illustrating how the policies of kidney transplant centers have systematically exacerbated the socioeconomic and racial

Perverse Incentives

Nov 29th, 2022 32m 28s

This episode begins to unravel why only a fraction of patients who have kidney failure end up on the wait list for a kidney transplant. It pulls back the curtain on the financial incentives of dialysis clinics and the doctors who oversee the ca

The Experiment Begins

Nov 29th, 2022 30m 47s

A real Life-And-Death Committee prompts the US government to do what they had never done before — provide universal coverage to a group of patients regardless of age, race, and socioeconomic status. But what started out with high hopes evolved

Introduction

Nov 29th, 2022 3m 41s

What if the whole US healthcare system could be put into perspective by how we treat one disease?David Krissman tells the story and lessons of America's only experiment with universal healthcare (kidney failure).In 1972, the US government gua

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