How to pronounce “actuary” in English

By the time I got to college, I was smoking a pack a day.As you heard, I studied to become and qualified as an actuary.That's someone who studies the science of mortality.

See, what my parents didn't like was the fact that Don's firm used actuaries.Now, most of you probably here know what an actuary does when they work for an insurance firm like that.What they do is they ask you certain questions.

And there's actually a backstop.If they can prove that their payment reforms improved quality and lowered cost, then the actuary of the department, who's not political, can certify it met those conditions,now it can be a payment model that's available to all doctors and hospitals without having to go back to Congress.

And also I'm going to reject the mainstream narrative about why this happened.- Yeah, so the other piece of the puzzle, when he goes to Rutgers, he thinks he'll be an actuary.So Milton Friedman's family, his parents are immigrants, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

And I said, what was it?See, what my parents didn't like was the fact that Don's firm used actuaries.Now, most of you probably here know what an actuary does when they work for an insurance firm like that.