Dr. David Shulkin
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first heard Nov 2025
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And whenever you have such a fragmented system with different incentives to perform,
you're going to get a system that essentially goes out of control.
And our system is going out of control in two ways.
One is we're seeing less people likely to be covered for insurance next year and the following years than we have in a long time.
You're seeing even those that are covered no longer being able to afford it with premiums going up 50%, 60%, 100% on small businesses and individuals.
And we're seeing essentially the same gaps in quality and the same disparities in the health care system that we've seen for decades.
And so by any measure, this is not a system that's really getting the results for the amount of money that the country is spending on it, which is close to 20 percent of the GDP.
I think that the political framing of this issue around the subsidies was an interesting one, but clearly the wrong one.
I do think that's the way this short-term political crisis is going to get solved, because I think when you speak to people...
uh privately almost everybody agrees that in the absence of a different solution the subsidies are needed just as a point of transition to we can get to something else but you know if you think about the subsidies it is reaching approximately 20 million americans out of a country of close to 400 million so it's a very small percent of americans that this is really addressing so anybody who thinks that this is going to solve
The affordability crisis for American health care, I think, just isn't looking at it properly.
And so the problem is, is that we are facing this right now without a real alternative approach.
There is no comprehensive solution being floated by either party.
And so hopefully this is a wake up call.
We do get the subsidy deal done to give us some time to really treat this as the crisis that it is.
I certainly understand why it's politically appealing.
Politicians like to be on the end of giving checks directly to Americans so they know where the money is coming from.
And of course, our current health care system is anything but transparent.
The money flow that happens once you pay your insurance premium is
And how that gets spent and dissipated, I think, is very difficult to follow.
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