The program we're talking about compensated for people without insurance, I think it's called DISH, DSA H. And the administration of that, how that actually works, is so opaque. It would be a unfortunate thing if it turned out that the larger your list price, the easier it was to collect money from the federal government for care that you provided with no compensation. Any thoughts on that? I don't really have any thoughts on that.
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.