My first stop in the series was at the Commonwealth Fund to learn more about health care and how it got so expensive. We solicited a lot of patient stories through social media and at the end of the series i had this bank of woe of patient stories, people who were smart for the most port New York Times readers who had not been able to make the system work. By there time you are finished, you realized you just scratched the service. I felt like i needed to know because it shows how prices had gotten as a physician to tried in the 80, i knew health care had not always been this way. I wanted to understand how did we get to this system which literally nobody seems to like right now. And by understanding that how can we get to a better place. We have seen so many efforts reform and everybody agrees to needs to be reformed but as see see on the hill today we are still arguing. As you mentioned, you are a physician i am a physician. We went to the same medical school. Harvard medical school.
System. Shes interviewed by david blumenthal, president of the commonwealth fund. Host hello. It is a pleasure to be here with you. I want to congratulate you on an incredibly readable in a thorough review of our problems in the Healthcare System and proposals for a solution. I have a ton of questions for you based on my background in the physician as a policy analyst and of course, also as an occasional patient. But first, i would like to ask a couple of question for context. The first one is why did you write this book and why did you write it al . Guest i worked on a series for the new york times. My first stop in that it was actually at the Commonwealth Club to learn a little bit more about the Healthcare System andd how it had gotten so very expensive. Then during that series, we solicited in love stories through social media. At the end of the series two years later, i had a kind of wow of patient stories and people that were smart just havent been able to make the system work. W
System. Shes interviewed by david blumenthal, president of the commonwealth fund. Host hello. It is a pleasure to be here with you. I want to congratulate you on an incredibly readable in a thorough review of our problems in the Healthcare System and proposals for a solution. I have a ton of questions for you based on my background in the physician as a policy analyst and of course, also as an occasional patient. But first, i would like to ask a couple of question for context. The first one is why did you write this book and why did you write it al . Guest i worked on a series for the new york times. My first stop in that it was actually at the Commonwealth Club to learn a little bit more about the Healthcare System andd how it had gotten so very expensive. Then during that series, we solicited in love stories through social media. At the end of the series two years later, i had a kind of wow of patient stories and people that were smart just havent been able to make the system work. W
Costs and got provided guidance to consumers. Shes interviewed by doctor david blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund. Its a pleasure to be here with you. I want to congratulate you on an incredibly readable review of our Healthcare System and proposals. I have a ton of questions based on my background as a physician and of course as a id like to ask a couple questions for context and why did you write this book and why did you write it now . I had worked for a couple years on a series with the New York Times. I first got the necessaries from the Commonwealth Fund to learn a little bit more about our Healthcare System and it had gotten expensive and then during that series we solicited a lot of stories through social media and at the end of the series 2 years later i had this bank of kind of patient stories, people who were smart and for the most part the New York Times reader just hadnt been able to make the system work so that was one aspect to another aspect was in the newsp
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