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EPISODE · Sep 10, 2026 · 1H 11M

How Do Other Countries do Healthcare?

from The Political Orphanage · host Andrew Heaton, Sally Primus

Healthcare in America is more expensive than anywhere else in the world—but what are other countries actually doing differently? Physician and Slice of Life MD author Sally Primus joins me to tour healthcare systems from Germany and Britain to Japan, Australia, and Estonia. We look at single payer, private insurance, wait times, doctor shortages, drug prices, bureaucracy, and the strange economics of American healthcare—and ask which ideas the United States might actually want to steal.

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