(Podcast) An hour explaining the American health care system, specifically, why it is that costs keep rising. One story looks at the doctors, one at the patients and one at the insurance industry. Full Story »
Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
Deeply informative, at a human level. In this first poddcast of a two-part radio special on health care, Ira Glass and his team speak candidly with doctors, patients and experts, about concrete examples of how we practice medecine in the U.S. today. They discuss why American doctors order so many unnecessary tests or interventions - partly because a lot of us like it that way. Factual, fair, well-sourced, but most importantly, intelligent reporting about an overwhelmingly complex issue.
I learned more from this show than from dozens of articles I've reviewed on this topic. It's an hour well spent.