The Price We Pay What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

What percent of medical care in your opinion is Unnecessary? The average answer was 21%.

For 50 years, we've been told by hospitals, we can't give you a price.

But 60% of health care is shoppable. It's predictable and we can do a lot better.

A researcher who called a hundred and one Hospitals that do heart surgery in the United States and asked what's the price of a standard cabbage or coronary artery bypass surgery?

Only 53 could give him an answer... the price of the cabbage operation ranged from 44,000 to half a million dollars.

Dr. Marty McCary of Johns Hopkins and author of "The Price We Pay," to talk about the origins of COVID-19 and the Wuhan lab.

And he's the guy who predicted that we would be at herd immunity in April.

One of the best parts of working on this book, the price we pay, which comes out in paperback in a couple of weeks here is that there's a revolution in medicine and it's exciting and it's driven by young people.

And I was privileged to describe this movement.

So we didn't fund basic clinical research, like answering the questions, when are you most contagious? How does it spread? How many people are asymptomatic? Do masks work?