There are many that are... I would call them sources of optimism. How can we get to a point where healthcare is affordable for everybody? That at the end of the day is really what we're trying to achieve. We provide hundreds of millions of dollars of uncompensated care, but it's not easily calculated.
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.