Is U.S. health care in a "gilded age"?

A New Yorker article argues that we are in "the gilded age of medicine." So what does that mean for U.S. health care? Dr. Dhruv Khullar, associate professor of health and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College and contributing writer at the New Yorker, joins "America Decides" to discuss his piece.

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