Help Me Understand Health Care: Ways to Reduce Health Care Spending

Published: Jan. 22, 2016, 7 a.m.

If you were in charge of the U.S. health care budget, how would you get spending under control? Turns out there are a lot of factors in play beyond economics, including our culture and lifestyles. In this episode of “Help Me Understand Health Care,” Dr. Kyle Bradford Jones asks professor of economics Dr. Norm Waitzman this very question: How can we reduce health care spending and what are the challenges facing us?