American health care has big problems. Some say the solution is Medicare For All: one government plan for everybody. But others say government health care would be worse than what we already have. Who’s right? And how did things get this bad? We talk to health policy researchers Prof. Harold Pollack and Robin Osborn. 

Check out the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/38ye0cY

Selected references: 

• Paper from last year on why American health care spending is so high: https://bit.ly/2t8gkqB
• Report from Robin’s group that compares the US, the UK, and many other countries: https://bit.ly/2qRh7vy
• A WHO report on health care cost control: https://bit.ly/38AEHxl
• Big Lancet report on the health of countries around the world: https://bit.ly/2RLJB4N

Credits:

This episode was produced by Rose Rimler with help from Lexi Krupp along with Wendy Zukerman, Michelle Dang, and Meryl Horn. We’re edited by Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, Bobby Lord, and Marcus Bagala. Recording assistance from Sofi LaLonde, David DesRoches, Dennis Maler, and James Delahoussaye. A huge thanks to all of the people with diabetes we spoke with— thanks so much! Also big thanks to Dr. Irene Papanicolas, Prof. Steven Woolf, Dr. Kasia Lipska, Elizabeth Pfiester, Professor Kevin Schulman, Dr. Eric Schneider, Dr. Chris Pope, Cynthia Cox, Lois Rogers, and everyone else we spoke to for this episode. And special thanks to the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.