Real Issues: Health Care Costs (On Point/WBUR Boston Radio)

Listen to the online audio from the show featuring Shannon Brownlee, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. ...

There are issues that get a big workout on the presidential campaign trail: big headlines, big applause lines. And there are a raft of really big issues that barely get touched: from defense spending, to American deficits, to the bottom line of American health care -- health care costs. Other nations spend less and live longer. American health care spending has doubled in the last decade, but the care's not twice as good. ...