Louise Aronson
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1,082 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2024
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So I think anybody can volunteer in ways large and small.
We have some people doing a few hours a week and other people doing most of their job now.
I think this is part of my larger response to this.
Like, well, yeah, if you let someone get critically ill, it's super expensive.
But guess what?
Prevention is way cheaper.
And also the people are happier because people would actually rather not get sick in the first place than get really sick and get excellent care.
And yet the entire financial structure of the American health care system
is about cutting edge science and treatments for this rare disease and this kind of intensive.
If you look at the buildings, and it's not just our institution.
I also should be clear about that.
I travel all over the country and everybody's got their precision medicine and their genomics and their heart center and their cancer center and their this and their that.
And does anybody say, oh my gosh, let me show you our primary care center.
Let me show you where we teach people really how to exercise and figure out something that they will do in perpetuity.
Let us show you our test kitchen.
Let us show you how we're really working with the community, not just putting up a poster on the side of a bus.
We have plenty of money in our health system.
The problem is where we put it.
Yeah, I totally agree.
You know, we just had this whole hullabaloo at SF Department of Public Health about a, you know, what's your risk for COVID flyer that was all about like old people, you know, be careful going to see old people, old people are at high risk.
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