marty makary, author of "the price we pay: what broke american health care and how to fix it." thank >> washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, we will preview the week ahead and washington with robert costa. itn, a discussion of documentary of flint michigan's contaminated water supply. watch live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> caitlin emma is budget reporter with politico. the weekend largely focused on fiscal year 2020 spending. let's start with the house and a tweet of yours saying house leaders are readying a continuing resolution through the 21st that would prevent president trump from holding up aid to ukraine, freeze president trump's trade relief and -- flexibility on border fencing. why do they need a continuing resolution and what is so special about this date other than being the weekend before thanksgiving? >> if you are from other with -- at all familiar with congress, you're probably familiar with the fact they like to put spending bill deadlines up against the holidays to

marty makary, the author of "the price we pay: what broke american health care and how to fix it." thank you so much for being with us. so, what broke american health care? guest: the story that nobody is talking about is pricing failures. doing the research for this book ,

marty makary, the author of "the price we pay: what broke american health care and how to fix it." thank you so much for being with us. so, what broke american health care? guest: the story that nobody is talking about is pricing failures. doing the research for this book , there were three fundamental reasons why health care is so unaffordable that all of the research pointed to, and that is not what the politicians are talking about. the research suggests that it is pricing failures, middlemen, and inappropriate medicare -- medical care. we need to talk about how to fix the broken health care system because people are getting crushed. people are getting hammered. touredd the country -- the country and met with hundreds of folks. patients in their homes listen to them about how the health care systems devastated them, and it is a mess. i do not believe we are divided country and i do not think the choice is put before spy health care -- by politicians are the right choices. there is tremendous consensus and the consensus is that we need to address pricing failures. us after theill

marty makary, author of "the price we pay: what broke american health care and how to fix it."so much. guest: it is great to be with you. host: i want to remind everyone that "washington journal" we'll be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. everyone have a great saturday and thank you for watching. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> next is the house judiciary committee considers guidelines for future hearings related to possible articles of impeachment against president trump. after that, president trump speaks at the house g.o.p. retreat in baltimore. and then iran and terrorist financing. to oday, joe biden, wife -- help open a field office for the 2020 biden campaign. watch the event and her remarks tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on -span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visi