In his new book, Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care\u2014and Why We're Usually Wrong, Robert Pearl, MD, the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente discusses the cost of healthcare in the United States relative to outcomes and ways to fix the system.\n\nDuring his interview with Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, Pearl explains what has caused the high costs of care in the United States and what can be done to address them, how poor communication between providers and institutions leads to poor care and preventable issues, changing the context of medicine and demands by patients and employers, and more.