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Welcome to the latest edition of our podcast, Prescription for Healthcare, produced by Dr. Rob Stone and Karen Green Stone.
Our guest today is T.R. Reid – a longtime correspondent for the Washington Post, a best-selling author, chairman of the Colorado Foundation for Universal Healthcare and chairman on the board of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
Reid discusses a variety of topics pertaining to healthcare – including the stigma of publicly-financed healthcare. Reid said there is no healthcare system in the world that doesn’t have government involvement, even in “capitalist U.S.A.” as Reid puts it.
“More than half of the money spent on healthcare in the United States is spent by government through programs like Medicare and Medicaid,” said Reid.
Our guest also looks at how the healthcare system in the U.S. compares with other countries with a larger population. He said Covid-19 revealed the weakness of healthcare in the U.S.
“I think Covid-19 has definitely, sharply demonstrated the shortcomings of America’s incredibly complicated and unfair healthcare system,” he said.
This podcast episode is Part I. in a two-part series and was recorded in January. Stay tuned for Part II., which will air next Thursday. You can find this program online wherever you get your podcasts.
