Latif Nasser

And so I started looking around, and what I realized was that the World Health Organization actually –

I mean, I guess they almost have a number, but it's a number per country.

They have the recommendation that countries spend, it's going to get gobbledygookie, but just bear with me, that countries spend one to three times the GDP per capita, which is like the gross domestic product per individual.

So take the entire fat ball of money that is in a country and divide it per individual?

Divide it by the individuals, and then you spend one to three times that on one more good year of life.

And what would that be for us?

So for the U.S., that's about 50,000 to 150,000.

Interesting.

And does that have any teeth?

That recommendation?

It legally doesn't have any teeth, but it has teeth in the sense that doctors in the U.S.

are actually going to start using this WHO number to evaluate medical treatments for cardiology.

They said they were going to do this in a paper, and it was kind of very quiet, very subtle.

But in other countries, this conversation is very loud, actually.

It happens at the government level.

They're also passing out surveys where they're asking doctors

citizens what is your limit on how much you want to spend on one more good year of life have they done that here as far as i know no why not because because the last time we tried to talk about cost in medicine it ended up in the whole death panels death panels death panels or so-called death panels thing and

I don't know, I just wondered.

Right, into the mess of it.

Hey, Times Square.