We all agree that keeping people healthy is the goal — so why does the healthcare system consistently underfund it? In this episode, Dr. M. Ayoub Ashraf unpacks one of the great contradictions in healthcare: the problem was never that we don't believe in prevention — it's that the economics of prevention are far harder than the idea of prevention.

He covers three things. First, what population health actually means — being accountable for an entire group, including the patient who never walks through your door, and why as much as 80% of what determines health happens outside the hospital. Second, why the money doesn't flow to prevention even when the evidence supports it: the timing problem (costs now, benefits decades away), the wrong-pocket problem (the pocket that pays isn't the pocket that profits), the volume problem (fee-for-service p ...