Happy Hour 243 - On Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs, with Author Dr. Ricardo Nuila
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Listen up - because your healthcare costs are about to increase! ACA tax credits are set to expire by the end of 2025, and millions are at risk of becoming uninsured. Learn about how our system leaves so many behind on how we got here, from Dr. Ricardo Nuila, author of “The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine.” He shared with the PT team about the Texas healthcare system, Medicaid, and more on living in the state with the highest uninsured rate in the country. Dr. Nuila works as an internal medicine doctor and hospitalist in his hometown of Houston, is an associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and has written for Texas Monthly, VQR, The New York Times Sunday Review, The Atlantic.com, and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Learn more about Dr. Ricardo Nuila at https://www.ricardonuila.com.
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