America spends more on healthcare than any other wealthy country in the world — roughly twice as much per person as comparable nations.

And yet Americans, on average, die younger.

So what is going on?

In this episode of Reimagine Healthcare, Noah Volz breaks down one of the most uncomfortable paradoxes in American healthcare: the United States has extraordinary rescue medicine, advanced hospitals, high-end specialists, complex surgery, trauma care, and pharmaceutical innovation — but still struggles to create a healthier population.

The problem is not that American healthcare is bad at everything. The problem is that we built a system that is exceptionally strong once the house is already on fire, and much weaker at stopping the fire from starting in the first place.

This episode explains why life ex ...