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Podcast: Cato Event Podcast
Episode: Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care: Panel 2
Description: Why is America’s health care system so dysfunctional and expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that come out of the blue from out-of-network providers, or that demand payment for services that weren’t delivered? Why do we pay $600 for EpiPens that contain a dollar’s worth of medicine? Why is more than $1 trillion—one out of every three dollars that passes through the system—lost to fraud, wasted on services that don’t help patients, or otherwise misspent?In a new book published by the Cato Institute, Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for...