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Corporate Concentration Is Breaking Healthcare w/ Dr. John McDonough, Author, America's Wrong Turn
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US healthcare spending broke away from the rest of the developed world around 1982 and has never come back. Most people assume that was an accident. John McDonough argues it was a choice.
Dr. John E. McDonough, Professor of Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and author of America's Wrong Turn, joins hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll to discuss how four decades of free market ideology reshaped American medicine, why corporate consolidation is the single biggest driver of healthcare inflation today, and what it would actually take to build a…
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