You get sicker, you get sicker. Where do you go? You go into the emergency room, which costs the health care system an enormous amount of money. We spend less than half of other countries in terms of primary care, disease prevention. How about a system which keeps our people healthy? This is the richest country on earth. And yet despite spending so much on health care, our life expectancy, how long we live, is shorter than virtually every other major country. (28:18–28:26)
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Asserts that the U.S. spends less than half of what other countries spend on primary care and disease prevention.
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