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A weekly podcast about the people, issues and ideas that are shaping health care.
Pretty much everyone in the U.S. agrees that the American health care system is not working for patients. The disagreement comes over what to do about it. On this episode, law professor Charles M. Silver proposes that the U.S. should have a market-based system, just as we do for many other sectors of the economy. Insurance would still play a role, but a far more limited one. He discusses with editor Torie Bosch what this system would look like for health care consumers, how Social Security offers a model, and how realistic the proposal actually is.
First Opinion Podcast
A weekly podcast about the people, issues and ideas that are shaping health care.