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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP285: The Fascinating Story of Billions of Dollars Going Missing When the Back Office Pays Health Care Bills, With Dawn Cornelis, Cofounder and Director of Transparency at ClaimInformatics
Description: I'm going to summarize some points that Dr. Marty Makary made in his manifesto for why he wrote his most recent book. The Price We Pay is its name. You can hear this manifesto in his own words—in Dr. Makary's own words—on Relentless Health Value episode 242, but here's his point: He said that the 2007 banking crisis, writ large, resulted from complexity that kept onlookers confused. So, when people questioned the banks being overleveraged and selling mortgages to, you know, those who couldn't afford them, experts responded by saying, "You know, it's very complicated. Leave it to us." But...