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HS 275 - Fixing the Healthcare System with Avik Roy
HS 275 - Fixing the Healthcare System with Avik Roy
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Avik Roy is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is also the opinion editor at Forbes, and has advised Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on policy. In 2015, Roy was a senior advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry; in 2012, he served as a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney. He is the founder of Roy Healthcare Research, an investment research firm, and previously was an analyst and portfolio manager at Bain Capital and J.P. Morgan. Roy is the principal author of The Apothecary (the Forbes blog on health care policy and entitlement reform), as well as author of Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency (2014) and How Medicaid Fails the Poor (2013). His research interests include the Affordable Care Act, universal coverage, entitlement reform, international health systems, veterans’ health care, and FDA policy. Key Takeaways: [1:34] Avik's "near universal" healthcare idea [3:52] How the government could spend less money than we spend today, yet cover more people with better coverage [6:47] How much of an impact breaking up regional medical clinic monopolies could have on healthcare costs [8:56] Why it matters that we don't know how much our insurance is paying for medical care [10:58] How Medicaid is failing [13:26] Why we have to think of healthcare like any other market, and not some unique part of society [15:14] The shocking revelation that for as much as the government spends on Medicaid, it might not actually be helping people [17:28] The best way to understand Donald Trump [20:20] How closing the border would lead to rising wages Websites Mentioned: www.twitter.com/avik www.forbes.com/opinion www.facebook.com/forbesaroy
Released:
May 13, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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