Jonquilyn Hill

And then of course, there's just new things that we can do.

Everybody knows about the GLP-1 weight loss drugs that are so popular and so highly used right now.

We have lots more new drugs.

I mean, some of these are sort of amazing advances.

It used to be you didn't want to do things and, you know, it was always cost-benefit, whether the benefit was worth the cost.

And the cost was not just monetary, the cost was in how long you would be laid up if you had a joint replaced or had some kind of surgery.

Now we have much easier surgeries.

So it makes it much easier to do these things, so we're doing more of them.

So that's just the usage side.

Then there's the price side.

And the price side, basically, you know, I can sum up in one sentence.

We have the highest prices in the world because people who provide health care here can.

The government doesn't regulate it nearly as much as they do in other countries.

Most other countries do have hybrid systems.

They do use some private insurance and some government subsidies.

But they also, most of them that don't have spending out of control, have much more serious regulation of prices.

than the United States has.

It's really wild because we should be going to the doctor.

We should be taking care of ourselves.

But it feels like when it comes to the price of things and the price of insurance, we kind of get punished for it.