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Why Healthcare Costs Keep Climbing

CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. · 2026-05-06 · 4 min

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Send us Fan Mail Is American healthcare collapsing? In this clip from our episode "How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System," host David E. Williams and Dr. Robert Pearl, Author of ChatGPT MD, break down why the current system is financially unsustainable and why physicians have never had the tools to fight back. Until now. Listen to the full episode here ️️ABOUT DR. ROBERT PEARL Robert Pearl, MD served as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) for 18 years and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, leading 10,000 physicians and 38,000 staff responsible for the care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts. He is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching healthcare strategy, technology, and leadership. Pearl is board certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery, with his medical degree from Yale and residency at Stanford.

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