"The healthcare that most people in the United States receive is extraordinary," he says. "It's an amazing, amazing thing to be a patient in an American hospital ... as long as they don't make a mistake." He adds: "I don't think we get what we pay for... We're buying the fanciest ingredients in that grocery aisle"
Physician and author Vivian Lee talks about her book The Long Fix with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lee argues that we can transform health care in the United States, though it may take a while. She argues that the current fee-for-service system incentivizes doctors to provide services rather than keep patients healthy and that these are not the same thing. Topics explored include innovations in Medicare and in technology that might change treatment incentives as well as the weird world of health care pricing.