Why is American health care so dysfunctional? | Eric Boehm | The Reason Interview

The host of "Why We Can't Have Nice Things" returns to discuss the podcast's second season, which focuses on how government makes Americans poorer and sicker.''

0:00- Introduction
1:04- Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Season 2
3:05- America’s convoluted healthcare market
7:54- Can Mark Cuban make prescription drugs affordable?
18:57- Ad: The Dispatch
20:01- When state health bureaucrats dictate access
26:00- The case for free market kidneys
33:28- Terrible telemedicine regulation
41:08- The war on Adderall
43:21- Supply side follies
49:43- Why care about healthcare markets?

https://reason.com/podcast/2024/09/04/eric-boehm-why-is-american-health-care-so-dysfunctional/
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Today's guest is Reason's Eric Boehm, a reporter and the host of the podcast Why We Can't Have Nice Things. The first season of the podcast exposed how little-understood trade policies and regulations screwed with the pricing and availability of everything from baby formula to women's underwear to frozen chicken.

The new season focuses on laws and policies that screw up the supply and costs of health care. It debuts on Thursday, September 5, with the first episode featuring billionaire Mark Cuban talking about his company Cost Plus Drugs, which sells prescription drugs directly to consumers at super-low prices. Coming episodes cover how "certificate of need" laws increase the price and reduce the availability of hospital beds, why bans on organ donor compensation cause the death of thousands every year, how restrictions on telemedicine hurt patients with no gain in safety, and how the Food and Drug Administration and Drug Enforcement Administration make legal pharmaceuticals like Adderall tougher and tougher to get.