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This edition: Has Obamacare Fixed Our Broken Healthcare System?

Episode Details

Original tape date: January 28, 2015.

First aired: February 2, 2015.

American annual healthcare spending is $3.8 trillion, a whopping 20% of GDP. Obamacare covered millions of uninsured Americans, but did nothing about spiraling costs. Steven Brill, author of the bestseller, "America’s Bitter Pill-Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System," analyzes the issue and tells Jim Zirin what can be done about it.

Guest List

Steven Brill Author and Journalist

  • About this series

  • Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military.

    The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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