Healthcare Is Broken, And We're Not Fixing It

--On the Show:

--A themed show on the American health care system, consisting of stories and commentary from The David Pakman Show over the years

--The Commonwealth Fund finds that the United States spends far more than eleven other high-income countries on health care, yet ranks last in outcomes

--The Obama administration confirms that under the Affordable Care Act, premiums will be up 22% next year and many consumers will be down to just one insurer

--David's $829 10-minute-long doctor's appointment

--Republican Senator Rand Paul, who previously claimed that single payer healthcare is "slavery," reveals that he will be traveling to Canada, a country with socialized medicine, for an operation

--Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins David to discuss the predicted costs associated with Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-all proposal

--Audience Question: Won't Medicare for All kill private health insurance jobs?

--Caller wants to know how to rebut the right-wing argument that the United States is too big a country for single-payer to work

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