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Open to Debate

#140 - Is the U.S. Healthcare System Terminally Broken?

Oct 4, 2017
53:00

MOTION: The U.S. Healthcare System is Terminally Broken

Criticized by patients, providers, and politicians alike, the United States healthcare system is hardly a crowd-pleaser. Is the most expensive health care system in the world beyond repair?

FOR

Dr. Robert Pearl, former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group

Shannon Brownless, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

AGAINST

Dr. Ezekiel Amanuel, a bioethicist and an architect of the Affordable Care Act

Dr. David T. Feinberg, CEO of Geisinger Health System

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