Many people — patients, clinicians and policymakers — are dissatisfied with the current state of health care. American medicine delivers miracles every day, but the system itself is a mess, chaos wrapped in mind-boggling paperwork and absurdly high prices. It’s in desperate need of transformation.

A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based out of NPR West. Before he joined KPCC, Martínez had never listened to public radio. He views his path in public radio as proof that public radio ...