The Pitt’s second season has featured themes such as the use of AI-driven medical tools, video remote interpreting and ICE.
Season 3, which was picked up ahead of Season 2, will touch on the looming Medicare crisis, according to star and executive producer Noah Wyle, who won the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series on Sunday.
After his win, he told press that there’s never a “shortage of storylines to pull from in an emergency room.”
“When you have characters that are as rich and diverse and as multi-dimensional as the ones that we have, it’s very easy to just sort of plot them into the future and figure out what they would be struggling with at that point. But, obviously these cuts in Medicare, the ones that are going to affect Americans and put them off the rolls, hospital closures, there’s all sorts of very pressing issues that are facing hospitals and health care workers in America, and we’ve only scratched the surface,” he said.
Recent legislation from President Trump and his administration will reportedly see 11.8 million more Americans becoming uninsured by 2035 with federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare potentially being reduced by more than $1 trillion over the next eight years.
Wyle’s comments come as Season 2 of The Pitt is still rolling out on HBO Max.
He said that there’s room on television for “every kind of hospital show” from comedies such as Scrubs to dramas including Fox’s Doc and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.
Wyle also revealed that his daughter was so confident that he would pick up another award – Wyle won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the same award at the Golden Globes – that she cleared space on their mantel piece.
“The mantle is getting full, but the [Actor Award] is gonna go up there with the rest of this year’s largesse. My daughter’s cleared a space for it. We’ve moved two vases out of the way in anticipation, not to be cocky or presumptive, but she was confident,” he added.