How Best to Describe the U.S. Healthcare System to a Young Japanese Woman?

Jeffrey Goodman
4 min readAug 19, 2022

Would you help paint a picture of the U.S. healthcare system for a young Japanese woman visiting San Francisco over the next few days?

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Please help me paint a picture of the U.S. healthcare system for a young Japanese woman (21 years old) who I will be showing around San Francisco over the next few days.

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Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.