A number of problems plague the United States healthcare system, from medical mistakes to the cost of uninsured patients. HealthMaker Robert Wachter, MD explains the issues in this video, and why the system needs to be overhauled.
They did say that's in crisis, they did say that we have 50 million uninsured people, that, the quality of care is irregular, sometimes it's spectacular but often it's not it's sporadic that we harm and kill way too many people in the course of getting care. We know that a jumbo jet worth of patients die every day in the American hospitals because of medical mistakes and the cost of care is bankrupting our country and so Herbert Steins once said famously in Steins' law that if something can't go on it won't and this can't go on and so it won't.
And yet we don't exactly know how to remake the system. It's hugely complex, it's hugely large. A lot of stakeholders so there's a lot of what to do, but I think it isn't crisis.
Robert Wachter, MD, is professor and associate chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He discusses solutions to improve healthcare and reduce medical errors at American hospitals.
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