SS Radio #167: Dr. Keith Smith and the Free Market in Healthcare

[Mark Rippetoe]

Free Market Healthcare | Starting Strength Radio #167

[Clyde]

I started listening to this and it is very good so far. Need to finish it later tonight. I got caught in the "medical loop" due to an ever so slightly high red blood cell count (my GP actually told me my testosterone was "too high", even though I am not taking anything, and that was supposedly causing the high red blood cell count; I'm 52 and testosterone is around 750, so it's not outrageous). Anyway, after seeing a blood doctor, having been told that I "might have leukemia" and nearly $2,000 later, with blood tests, consultations, etc., my RBC count is perfectly fine. The doctor did all the tests "just to be sure". Unbelievable.