Watch: Affordability Plagues Health Care in Its Shift From Nonprofit to Profit Machine

On What the Well being? From KFF Well being Information, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Drew Altman, president and CEO of KFF, to speak in regards to the chance of a nationwide well being care debate to rein in prices.

Because the midterm elections method, the price of well being care is the general public’s high financial concern, Altman stated. Though previous reforms have considerably elevated the variety of folks with medical insurance, they haven’t efficiently addressed affordability, he stated.

Altman stated the U.S. well being system poses two main issues: People’ considerations about how you can pay for their very own medical care, and the numerous share of nationwide spending it consumes.

Rovner and Altman additionally focus on the downstream results of change, together with the affect of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting on states, employers, and people, and classes realized from previous makes an attempt at authorities reform.

That is the primary in a brand new interview sequence, “How Would You Repair It?” Within the months to come back, Rovner will interview consultants and decision-makers from quite a lot of backgrounds and views, asking every how they’d restore the well being care system.

An abbreviated model of this interview will air on What the Well being? From KFF Well being Information.

Altman’s “Past the Knowledge” columns — together with the column mentioned on this interview, “Our Darwinian Method to Well being Care Prices” — might be learn right here.