What if all US health care costs were transparent? | Jeanne Pinder 

The reason is cause when people have a health issue it's better for them if they dont think about the price because they might not have the money. The only solution is Medicare for all. Bernie 2020

Bob Smithies, Yes I can imagine. That restaurant would cost 100 times more in the USA compared to most other 1st world countries

Sadly I've been to a restaurant like that.

Some fancy restaurants are exactly like that!

And then you would get an additional bill from the dishwasher 6 months after you had your meal.

This ought to be pinned at the top

I use pratter.us. It's amazing the price difference between vendors.

Thank you

Thank You!

Going to hospital is like go to the club. They had their own price. In other country, there are public one and it is cheap so you don't need insurance. you still need insurance for private one.

This.

Same in Canada.

I had to come and live in England to be able to have healthcare; fortunately whilst working both sides of the pond I paid Income Tax and National Insurance here. I would be dead a long time now had I remained in NYC. I do not live in luxury and having been a RN in the NHS I already knew how great the level of care is; it showed me just how bad healthcare is for the working class back home. I get my pensions, disability benefits, rent & council tax benefit so I am doing just fine. PS: I forgot to say that I get a new car every three years with my mobility benefit.

Judith Aldridge -- it’s sad to listen to the lies that the Republicans tell Americans. What’s worse is so many people believe them.

@@duanepigden1337 In New York you just have to call something Socialist and they will run a mile away from it. Trump voters keep repeating Trump when he says "We will never be a Socialist Country." The problem is that none of them can tell you what Socialism, Communism or Capitalism are. I have never known a country where so many people election after election, vote against their own best interests. Even people on Medicare or Medicaid will be a lot better with Medicare For All. These people are told by the two main parties just how bad the healthcare systems in other countries are and they take it on blind trust. I have worked and been a patient both in New York and England and we back in the States are not a touch on the standards of care in the NHS. At the end of the day, if you vote to keep a mediocre health service, you get a mediocre health service. Even Trump had to admit how good the NHS is after one of his friends needed emergency surgery in Scotland.

President Trump agreed with this and signed an executive order now forcing medical providers to tell patients when asked how much their services will cost. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qIcMnbea3E4.html

@@michaelhuebner6843 what MSM wouldn't tell you. Democrats just want to solutions to fall of the sky in the other hand

It shouldn't cost you anything tho

@@imprint2030 This is a naive statement. Everything costs something, the only answer is who is paying for it. What would happen during this pandemic when many many more people need healthcare treatment? The tax payers cannot afford a tax increase, the government is already majorly in debt and even cutting spending in other areas wouldn't be enough to cover healthcare for all, the government has to pay for other things as well: welfare, infrastructure, general services, and many people want free college added to that. So you say tax the rich, until the rich leave. Oh, they won't leave the opportunities are too great you say! Ask California about that, not only have they lost a major tax base with many rich people and their companies, but regular people are also leaving now because the taxes are too high. America is suffering from success. Americans have so use to the United States being so great that any policy could be put in place and companies, people, and money wouldn't leave. We are dealing with globalization now and a world-wide market that is just as good if not better than America. You see this with companies moving jobs & production to China and other Asia countries, you see them expanding into these markets as well because the cost of doing business in America is becoming too high. The United States was majorly based on Rome & because of that we will fall like Rome. We will become too needy, too use to having a good life free from any real worries compared to the rest of the world, we will slowly eat ourself alive until a civil war, major economic collapse, or the gradual overcome from another power. Medical prices are too high for many reasons. 1) the red tape and governmental cost of doing business in healthcare. It should just as easy for a single doctor to open up a small clinic as it is for a dentist to open up a practice. If you want to keep ER & major hospitals regulated, fine they are big business. 2) price transparency, people should know the cost of healthcare before they get it. You know how much a car, house, steak, clothes, literally anything you buy before you buy it. You can weigh your options to see which store has the best prices for the best quality. 3) healthcare workers are over appreciated & overpaid. Being a doctor once meant something because very few people had the ability to become one. Now, going to medical school is normal for people and you see the girls that failed simple math classes in high school going to college and in 2-4 years being an RN and treating people. The level of education has reduced, the ability to become one has reduced, the quality of them have reduced, while the numbers of them has grown. In any other industry that means labor prices would decrease. But the government has regulated the healthcare industry so much that a few big hospitals own a majority of all hospitals and keep new ones from forming. They are in bed with the government and see the regulations as just a cost of doing business and pass that onto the consumer. 4) insurance is only expensive because healthcare is expensive. If you could get knee surgery done for only $10k a knee instead of $50k+ a knee insurance would be a lot less. 5) people need to stop acting like their health is taboo, it is okay to talk about your illness either physical or mental and discuss with people the best option to treat it, which doesn't require medical attention as much as we currently put in place 6) people need to live healthier lives, a majority of peoples medical conditions and cost is due to them not taking care of their body & so if it costs alot of fix them where they have to go into debt that is on them and not my fault 7) hospitals pay for the people who dont pay their medical bills by added it onto your medical bill. This would never happen in any other industry. If the restaurant told everyone that table A left without paying their bill so now everybody else has to split the cost of that so the restaurant doesn't lose money they would all lose their minds but everybody turns a blind eye when it comes to healthcare. I have started a company (that will be launching nation-wide at the end of there summer 2021) that takes advantage of the executive order signed by the 45th president to allow people to compare and construct the cost and quality of hospitals, procedures, healthcare professionals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice agencies, pharmacies, & pharmaceuticals. I truly believe this is the way to bring down the cost of healthcare to normalize the healthcare industry so it is on the same level as any other industry and doesn't received special treatment from law makers & the public.

@@HeyItsHades jesus mate calm down this isnt an exam

Yes, I live in France. My sister-in-law had brain cancer, and because she could not climb stairs to speak to a psychologist about her concerns for her daughters whom she would be leaving, the psychologist paid house calls. It is the most fabulous health system in the world.

And how much would this cost you in US

You realize France tax payers paid all the rest right?

M K you realize it’s more economical and efficient that way.

@@wraith511802003 I don't think I have a problem paying taxes if it saves me and the other person too. And that's how economy works ,are you a fool or pretending to be one.

Canada also has a few problems with keeping doctors as well as death panels. I have a few friends who live in Canada so I have heard both the positive and negative. From having no problems to having an issue that a single shot that was deemed unnecessary could have prevented a year long stay in a hospital. But when you want to survive cancer there is literally no better place to live than in the USA.

@@vagabondwastrel2361 : Thanks for the reply. You point out some realistic downsides up here. I suspect what you say about cancer in the USA is true but only if you have a very good health insurance or are wealthy. I suspect if you have neither, you are better off in Canada where at least your cancer will be treated regardless of income.

Depends. In canada they can still turn you down for treatment where in the us you there are almost too many charities. Oddly that is part of the American healthcare system. I wish I could go into a clinic and they would post all of the prices before more information is always better. Also when Obamacare was put into place it removed a lot of state run insurance plans for the poor. Wisconsin for instance you only had to pay 1$ a month. One of the biggest issues the American healthcare system is the government over involvement into a capitalistic model through regulations and government funds. It raises the overall price due to government inefficiency and the insurance companies write the rules.... I view is when you look at topics and you only hear people on the left wing complaining you can double check to see if it is a real issue. Just never take their solutions because it is always worse than the problem. When the right wingers complain you know something is seriously wrong.. unless it is by the theocrats in that case double check because they might oddly be correct.

@@vagabondwastrel2361 : Thanks for the informative response. I appreciate it. I learn something new every day.

If you want to see where a full capitalist healthcare would look like .. at least in the American system. you can look at plastic surgery and lazer eye surgery. Massive competition, rapid innovation and better customer care. I forget what countries have a fully capitalist system but there are only like two.

When is the last time you ate and had insurance pay for it? Sending claims to insurance to be denied, and have to fight insurance for crappy reimbursement is a nightmare. You want the cost to go down? Pay all doctors in cash. Remove all insurance completely. True competition will emerge, and you will then pay what it is worth.

You forgot to include tort reform. Currently, 28% or more of every health care dollar goes for "malpractice" insurance. @@Howard675

@@Howard675 You don't have to get rid of insurance companies, but they wouldn't act as an intermediary as you would just bill them directly. I'd prefer a system where healthcare procedures were grouped (such as MRI, no billing codes) would have an upper limit to what an insurance company would be willing to pay. Insurance companies would say they will pay a certain amount, and anything more than that, the consumer pays. If we knew how much an insurance company was willing to pay for various procedures, and we knew what healthcare providers charged, then choosing healthcare providers would be easier as we would know what would and wouldn't be covered.

So while you are recovering from the Anesthesia, the doctor is supposed to give you the bill and tell you to call a taxi because you can't drive due to the drugs, just like a restaurant?

@@Howard675 Totally Howard.

30 years ago I had a $2500 deductible. So very often I just negotiated cash settlement with medical providers. I found that if I paid cash at the counter for my pathology there was a 50% discount. I negotiated a $1000 MRI down to $200 because the doctor was a nice person and willing to deal in cash. I don’t think it’s changing much because I could never find out what the procedure cost before I actually had the procedure even though I was a personal friend of the director of the local hospital. Thanks so much for what you’re doing.

Thank you so much, Joe DiGiovanni! Together we are strong!

That’s why I’m feeling to be on the brink of death with complications resulting from influenza I can’t afford without health insurance. Honestly would rather die than take up $5400 in debt for a damn Tamiflu pack I can get on the street for like $20, as my condition worsens. Only reason I haven’t gone to an ER is that I AM A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER! So I can monitor my symptoms and self medicate to a point...

@@headcold7250 so sorry that is just awful I don't go the doctor much myself and my cost would be around €100 to see and be treated but if I had an ongoing problem they would give me free health care. It's so not fair and them prices are unjustified.

You all pay taxes there is no reason there shouldn't be a health system in place.

Physician offices need to have a HIPAA officer, a Safety officer, an HR department, have to comply with government reporting for the incentive payment program, the list goes on. Physicians are still under the sequester cuts from Obama. Reimbursements are decreasing to physicians. Costs are increasing. The government and insurance companies are raping the physicians in an effort to shut them down, and open government health clinics to provide crappy "free health" to all. This lady is very short sighted in her discussion.

that's why I haven't seen a doctor in twelve years i'm not super man, i'm just not super rich

Yeah and they slag off our nhs. We don't pay$200 for a paracetamol they're idiots!

john Thatcher Give the Conservatives a few more years of austerity and see how it is then

@@tylermiavlogs5441 So what's your solution? Keep borrowing more and more???

@@tylermiavlogs5441 why do people always blame the conservatives? Why don't I pop down to your house spend all your money and then blame you for cutting back.

john Thatcher Conservatives haven’t keep spending up with the nhs that’s why less people work for the nhs now then under Blair. We don’t need to borrow money we need a tax increase to rebuild our failing infrastructure and rebuild the nhs

They're the pharmaceutical companies

They are republicans on Medicare, what do they care what it costs.

I think they're probably 55 doctors and insurance providers...

It could be people who have perspective on the problem and have surmised that taking the discussion in the direction of nit-picky dollars might be a waste of everyone's time given the complexity of the system. Simplicity and transparency are often at odds. Bringing more people into the conversation might just make things worse.

@@JanisFroehlig Medicare for all would simpify everything and lower costs. Single payer like the rest of the civilized world.

She's treating a symptom, just like the U.S. legislature. The big stinky fish is out of water and floundering in death throws. Health care for profit is immoral. The U.S. needs to join the rest of the western world.

Totally agree

The problem is these corporations are paying both left and right to keep things as they are. (Massively overfimplified view, I know, but it's a huge problem.)

The reason why the U.S. does not have Medicare for all, is due to ONE man: Senator Max Baucus. He was the chairman of the committee that held up the Affordable Care Act until they agreed to remove the Medicare option from it. He is a retired Insurance company executive, supported by the insurance industry to get elected. Now here's the surprise: He was a democrat. Yes, ONE guy screwed us all. He is no longer in office, but there are still far too many congressmen and senators (and president) that are indebted in some way to the insurance industry. www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/08/max-baucus-once-a-foe-of-single-payer-health-care-belatedly-endorses-it/?noredirect=on&.0a86f8df5b4c

@@walperstyle that's really strange you imply surgery costs money out of pocket for the patient and it certainly does not. All medically necessary surgery is covered in Canada. This info is readily available on Canada's own official website. You imply also that the state takes more out of your check and they don't. In fact you seem to have no idea how well you have it. An average (not median) family of 4 there pays $12k Canadian per year on healthcare. Here in the US the average is $28k US. Think about that a second. We pay 2 TIMES as much as you folks do and have worse health outcomes. Oh and don't talk about waiting times. I have really good insurance and it takes at least a month for an xray or MRI. Sometimes longer. 2-3 months minimum for a specialist consult. 4-6 months for a mental health appointment. Surgery on my spine took 5 months from scheduling to the knife. Oh and if you happen to pay cash, you can often get in the same day or at worst the same week you're seeking the appointment. We did this on an xray and also on a mental health appointment. You have it good and shouldn't be acting like private, for-profit healthcare is in any way a good thing.

How does insurance increase demand? BTW, people don't have to us.e insurance; they're free to pay out of pocket

Have you ever heard the saying: “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is”? In theory, people could waive their insurance on things like yearly physicals, X-rays, small operations, etc.. (assuming the doctors offices even know what to charge without the insurance) but in practice no one does because you’d have to be a fool to pay out of pocket for something insurance will cover after you have paid your insurance premium.

@@tomcotter4299 Of course. But you side-stepped the main point. You claimed that insurance increases demand, thus increasing prices. How?

fretbuzz59 Demand is what people desire *and* can afford. Insurance artificially increases the amount of healthcare that people can afford. The desire part is a given for humans.

@@tomcotter4299 Well that's a completely fucked-up way of looking at things. But yes, insurance does make it possible for people to get healthcare they couldn't otherwise afford. Of course the alternative, in many cases, would be for them to DIE. If that's fine with you, then there's no more to discuss (except for your moral shortcomings). But if you think people should be able to get the care they need, then we've got to figure out a way to pay for it. As for "desire." The desire to survive is a given for humans. Beyond that, healthcare isn't like a luxury item that one desires but doesn't really need. "Should I get myself a fancy new watch or an appendectomy." It's not like that.

In 2017 I tore my Achilles tendon while in northeast China. The doctor ordered an MRI; it cost me $80. (The MRI machine BTW was made by GE.) When I saw my podiatrist in the US and showed him the images from the Chinese hospital, he said the same test would have cost me $1000 here. Go figure.

@@kidlatazul Operating equipment is hugely influenced by wages though. That being said, that would only account for a $200-300 difference.

Sick people don't haggle, when unregulated, commercial health care providers are most likely to scam their patients because it is even more profitable than illegal drug trade. And they lobby politicians so they can keep doing that.

@@joseph_wei So true. Politicians and the damn lobbyists are crooks! Pisses me off!

@@drakkorvladimir4012 Thats what happens when you legalize bribery. Who could have imagined that giving people with money unlimited access to politicians would lead to moral hazard. Hu da thunk it.

@North American RU-vidr , That's not really correct either. Please look at my above post.

Hopefully the Advil is cage-free and all natural....

They got people deeply fooled.....that changing prices changes anything.....smh😔......#1 first of all, the psychology behind raising prices was to get folks to think that the product was more valuable, so they could work harder to get something they are missing out on.....#2 lowering the prices won't do shyt either, due to the fact that most of these drugs are NOT constructed properly in the first place because if they were , then there wouldn't be any negative side effects to them or negative withdrawals.

Thank you Trump for fixing this!

@AI Martins , In my other post I explained in detail how medical billing actually works, based on my own many years of firsthand experience in that field. I did NOT, ' lie ', nor, ' deflect ', anyrhing!

That's horrific, I'd imagin in my country you'd only have to pay for staying over night in hospital (bed + breakfast), fullstop. Rest is paid by your health insurance. Sure waiting some time is common, but 7h... Thanks for sharing your story!

@@kleinshui9082 I wondering it I should question the bill further. I think I will get it itemize.

In that cost you both could have traveled to india, get treated. come back...still with some money to throw a party

@@vikas274 what!! 😨

now think about what she in the video is proposing as a solution. That if your daughter has that much pain, that you start to google the cheapest hospital and drive there... even if you do not know what to expect and how urgent it is. it is good taht you cant, because you really should not take an hour longer to see a doctor just so you can save some bucks.

Cynthea Sabolich welcome to America.

Because of insurance companies rather than using the free market

The healthcare providers and the insurance companies form a super monopoly. Free Market capitalism cannot exist when there is a monopoly in place. The healthcare system in the United States is not a Free Market; it is a Monopoly Market.

Wow, makes me feel nice about being born in France

My ex is from Canada. You are leaving out some things like the interminable waits for some procedures.

As long as you don’t die before the waiting period is over.

@@joesmith389 As a Canadian I agree. Wait lists for an MRI can be a year or more. Our system is just as broken as the U.S. system, just in different ways. If an American wants an equivalent of the Canadian system. Think about the U.S. veterans healthcare. Only on a national scale with 30 million people trapped in it.

@Danny Bowen In Europe we pay nothing. But the Insurance companies, Doctors and Hospitals in US are trying to get you to pay this bills, one way or another. And 32 % of the people in US don`t even have Insurance A day in a hospital costs $5,220 here - versus $424 in Spain. Harvoni cures hepatitis C. It also costs $10,000 more in the US than anywhere else. Need to take the cancer drug Avastin? It will cost nine times more in the United States than in Britain. Bypass surgery costs $78,318 here, versus $24,059 in the UK.

@@joesmith389 In Europe we don`t have waiting time, and is free.

Here in the USSA, I'm relieved to find my paycheck exceeding that of an Australian whose gummint skims healthcare costs off the top. If you're single and childfree in Australia, you still pay part of your wages to support marriage and breeding of others.

@@jimkirby9959 Boo hoo. At least we don't go into debt just to have a operation or get a decent education. Your country is a failed state. Just wake up to reality.

@@jimkirby9959 Who cares if you got a higher paycheck, you gotta pay to ride an ambulance bruh lmao.

@@jimkirby9959 Wait until you get older. The older you get, the more you need healthcare. Let’s see if you can still afford thousands of dollars for an ambulance ride, or thousands of dollars for prescription medicine which costs a fraction of the cost overseas, even in developing countries. You’ll get shafted by the US “healthcare “ system sooner or later. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. What do you expect of a system whose number one priority is profit over the lives of people?

If it was a market for profit, there would be competition, reducing prices and increasing quality. Instead, we have government subsidized healthcare, causing massive distortion.

@@senorpoodles1755 That would work if it was a free market where people were free to choose, let's explore these 2 point: 1)the healthcare market is not easy to enter, you can't just make a startup and start selling drugs, you need a huge amount of money so it's dominated by few giant corporations that can just make deals with each other in order to raise prices. 2)healthcare doesn't follow the free market rules because you don't have a choice: if your car is old you can keep it, spend to repair it or buy a new one (used or brand new). If you have cancer, diabetes or another health problem that can bring you to death you have to options: buy or die. If you need a specific drug to live that only one company makes (covered by patent) and they decide to raise the price from 25$ to 100$...or 500$...you have no choice, buy or die.

@@francesco8000 1: That's created by government regulation. 2: A free market means, you are able to buy your drugs from a cheaper place. cheaper phones from china, cheaper cars from korea. Why can't you import epi-pens and asthma puffers and sell them in the USA under your own company name at a cheaper rate than the big pharma companies?

@@senorpoodles1755 Thats the theory of the capitalst ideal. Trouble is that theory stopped working as soon as corporations began & capitalism went global. Now the ever increasing race to the lowest cost disregarding the quality of product means you get a healthcare system that gives you the care that your bank balance denotes says you deserve.

@@senorpoodles1755 exactly

Well those are public utilities that you don't have choices in which company you use. Insurance and medical you do. You can go to any hospital or Dr. Office doesn't matter your address. Can't get water service from a company in another town.

Kermit DaFrog so, according to your logic, the price goes up because there is competition? Isn't that there exactly the opposite of what the "free market" advocates state?

True. These industries are monopolies and are the opposite of capitlism. Yet you have idiots who think a free market in these industries would drive more innovation when you have a litteral random joe make their artificial pancreas thats actually more effective than what big companies make.

Reasonable Speculation 🎼thaaaats caaaaalled looooobbying🎼

And people think, "Well, my insurance will pay for it so it's not a problem." But what they don't realize is that those costs WILL be paid BY YOU eventually in the form of higher premiums for everyone.

Having bills itemized that way is a little silly, but there’s a reason they’re listed higher than normal. They’re inflating the cost of things you receive to pay for the things you don’t see. You’re paying for the administration, the nurses and techs, the electricity, plumbing, etc, the security guard, the building maintenance, the property taxes, the janitorial service, and so on. There are a lot of costs that get added on to things to pay for underlying costs. It’s just like a pizza costing $20 when the ingredients only cost $2.

@@dsolomon You forgot: - Hush money for mistresses - Mortgage on 19th house - Dining expenses at the Ritz Carlton - Polo lessons for little Jimmy Just kidding, but not really.

That sounds almost fraudulent.

I work in the medical industry and you hit the nail on the head!

Healthcare should be a human right. Companies shouldn't be able to make money off of health issues period... Let alone laws protecting denial of services over pre existing conditions! Its criminal... We are dealing with human lives here ...Existence on this planet shouldn't be dependant on how much money you can afford to spend on healthcare.

we agree! how do we catch them?

@@majermike preferably at the ends of pitchforks and then secure them firmly beneath guillotines. It's coming.....

Yeah... but it's *NOT* the nurses and the Doctors who are the problem. Just like with the education system in the US, it's the hospital Administrations that has all the money and is causing all the problems. The Department of Health and Human Services introduced a rule in November of 2020 requiring hospitals to post clear prices *before* patients receive treatment -- and it requires that hospitals abide by those prices. Guess which organizations are suing to try and block this rule? The American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Federation of American Hospitals. So; this looks a lot like collusion between all of the big hospitals in the country. We have some examples of 'Trustbusting' supreme court decisions that have occurred in the past, for example: , 310 U.S. 150 (1940).

@@gilian2587 It's everyone in the system.

@@thomast3570 And your role? Administration?

@@gilian2587 Does it make a difference? I have 40 years' experience with negotiating people around healthcare systems. Posting prices sounds like a paper by a business major.

@@thomast3570 Knowing the general price for more expensive procedures like an 'Appendectomy' is crucial. Otherwise... even simple affairs could have someone might end up with a bandaid and a few words of encouragement and be charged $40,000 at Hospital A when a little research would have made it manifestly obvious that similar treatment at Hospital B would have charged them $100 for the visit. Patients have to be able to make judgments regarding price point. It allows patients to defend themselves a little more financially. Gas stations advertise their prices for their product, they have to in order to compete. Gas stations do not have a de facto license to extort their customers; why should Hospitals? As it stands -- people are being bankrupted by the medical system in the US right now. That has to stop.

Thank you so much! (blushing)

@@Clearhealthcosts put a link in description. Or comments outside and pin it

Yeah, everybody calling for "free" healthcare doesn't realize it just makes the problem worse, because Hospitals will still do the same old thing, and the "free" health care company that you are assigned to by the government saves every penny they can, denying you the services you actually need to be able to physically breath. So instead you end up going to the hospital where you wait for 8 hours while the doctor tries to work out something with the insurance company that is acceptable, meanwhile you're literally dying from asphyxiation. Free market, transparent competition is the way forward.

they are propping up a corrupt means of profiting from the infirmed. Our American health care providers are just as frustrated with this broken system as the patients are. The only ones truly thrilled are on the admin side where the billing, insurance and lobbyist are.

That's a fancy way of saying "the same procedure will cost 500x more if you really REALLY need it". All the US "healthcare" system is doing is exploiting vulnerable people.

@@asmosisyup2557 No, it's my mom saying it's not as simple as we think. She's not justifying it, she's explaining it because the woman giving the talk didn't.

Thank you so much! If your mom wants to get in touch, I'm jeanne@clearhealthcosts.com!

But she's isn't self made though

@@unityking7451 ray j made that family. poor guy deserves royalties

If she’s self made I’m a taco

Sure but if you tell them a splint for a broken arm costs $30 at one hospital and $500 at another, I'm sure they'll care a little bit more.

It's not that they don't care. It's just that the American public gets its news from the corporate news industry. Which usually comes for free. And if y'all are not paying for it, then you're not the customers. The customers are all the companies that buy ad time on that channel - and they very much include insurance and healthcare providers. So the news won't report on the healthcare crisis, because any response to said crisis would make the healthcare industry less profitable. Any ad you see on news media represents a massive conflict of interest for that channel. Meanwhile, reporting on celebrities only helps those celebrities. So you get a lot of "news" about celebrities.

@Ian Stevenson The government and insurance companies are to blame. Liberal lies of "healthcare for free" and "keep your doctor" have decimated our health system. The qualifications for enrollment to medical school continues to drop because there are fewer and fewer people who want to put in the time and tremendous work for the crappy pay a physician now gets. The shortage of physicians and nurses has already begun. The quality of health care has already started to suffer.

@@Howard675 To add to that we as people need to accept some responsibility when a lot of people want to the sue the hospital or the doctor at the drop of hat.... not accepting they did to their health...

The American system right now is a mix of big business, over regulation, heavy subsidization and some of the best healthcare you can get.

yes it is insane, we're sorry everyone we just want to say that we really suck hard and we can't help that we suck

In America some people want to blame the cop (government that is) for the rape. Of course the rapists are the AMA the drug companies and the insurance companies. Wow! There are none so blind as those who will not see. No facts will ever change their minds.

It's not funded through taxes - it's private. If it was funded through taxes and everyone paid the same amount then it would be way better - like it is in the rest of the modern world.

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou Yet the US spend more tax per capita than anyone else for healthcare their people can't afford.

thetruth ...posting prices is only part of the solution. We need Medicare for all.

@@B33SON1 unfortunately with trump in the White House and a Republican controlled senate this won't happen. I would love to see what excuse they make to vote against a bill that requires transparent easily available pricing.

Right! Like you don't walk into the coffee shop, give your name, get handed their recommend coffe and billed later.

@@Waitwhat469 And that is why the coffe price have to be on public dispay in the shop.

Physician offices need to have a HIPAA officer, a Safety officer, an HR department, have to comply with government reporting for the incentive payment program, the list goes on. Physicians are still under the sequester cuts from Obama. Reimbursements are decreasing to physicians. Costs are increasing. The government and insurance companies are raping the physicians in an effort to shut them down, and open government health clinics to provide crappy "free health" to all. This lady is very short sighted in her discussion.

That is like saying Socialism isn't bad just because everyone else who tried it did it wrong. It is never more efficient for the government to do anything. Government does not care how much something costs, it isn't their money they are spending.

​@@marioxmariox And here we have the typical ignorant "muh socialism" argument. The USA have the highest healthcare cost per capita in the world. If you adjust for wealth, the USA pay twice as much as anyone else except for Switzerland. And even then, Switzerland is lower. Canadians pay less than half of the costs. Less than half. People aren't talking about taking on a system that "doesn't work", they're talking about adopting a system that works orders of magnitude better, but still has its own issues.

marioxmariox if you ever find yourself saying “never” or “always” in an argument, you just made something up.

Please! We've got a massive government managed health system. It's call the Veterans Administration. Go visit, learn.

To those of us on the outside looking in, it is just bizarre. That and the lack of compassion for your fellow man is truly upsetting :-(

I once thought about working in America for a while but the way patients are seen as customers rather than patients, the fact I'd be expected not to treat people because they had no insurance and the worry about how I'd get treatment if I'll really put me off. The system is incredibly dangerous and one thing we (the rest of the world) need to make sure America doesn't export.

This is America :,) land of the free and home of the brave. Free to pay to live and brave enough to try lmao. After the 1920s, American commerce switched to “consumerism”. Also lobbying is a thing so... there ya go.

No, it's a moral failure to depend on the kindness of strangers for your pregnancy leave and childcare support.

Remove excessive government regulation, tort reform, privatize insurance, pay cash.

You let capitalism / the market sort it out from there.

Universal healthcare, health care is a right, not a privilege

@michaelatw86 so if I can't afford it, and I break my arm or get deathly ill, I should just die or let it set incorrectly?

@michaelatw86 also I read that in Trump-voice and it always sounds... Unintelligent. It's a good laugh, man, thanks!

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Not only is pricing transparency broken in health care, but quality transparency is too. Find me a good, effective, actionable transparency metric, and we will incorporate it yesterday. Sad truth: Such a thing does not exist.

Yeah but you pay for it even if you're not sick. You pay for healthcare all the time in a little thing called 'taxes'.

Yup. 50% income tax so I can have "free" healthcare. People need to know the real cost of healthcare and education even if the government pays the freight. That is the only way informed consumer decisions can be made.

You mean like how ISP's operate right? Oh wait- uh

@jocaguz18 As far as the acceptance of services, if I stopped accepting the services of a grocery store which supplied me with food, I would die as well, but there are a large number of grocery stores competitively selling the same products in a free market of absolutely life necessary items. If you can't make your own food (a fundamental building block of life), you have to rely on a market of people/services/products to provide them for you. The only government oversight in that example are the ones that ensure the products are safe to sell/consume (FDA), and the companies participating in the market are doing so fairly (SEC, FTC, etc). No one is making the claim that the government has to provide the means to feed 327 million people who will at some point be hungry. And no one is selling hunger insurance to remove the competition of the grocery stores and allow them to set prices according to what the insurance companies will pay as opposed to the individuals who directly partake in the goods/services being provided. I see healthcare in the same vein. Require government for the basic areas of safety and fair trade. I support the need for cost transparency when there is a HUGE, unexplained difference in costs and I would rather not have the magic hand of government attack pricing, cause every time it does, it screws it up. Government is by design not meant to be flexible, dynamic, agile and responsive to issues, so why hand control of more things to them?

@@DeoMachina I still believe that the regulation of ISP's is problematic in the half-way in/out way they operate now. If we as a society believe that connectivity is a basic and absolute requirement to fulfill basic human rights, then it should be fully regulated and managed like roads/public transits, managed at a city or state level according to the management priorities of those entities. OR, deregulate it completely and require all companies to share the infrastructure without constraint, there by creating an actual marketplace where you can have 1. real choices, 2. opportunity for new players to enter the market without unrealistic start-up costs and infrastructure lock-ins, 3. competition based pricing/servicing according to local/state level priorities. Just a thought, it's pretty complicated when you are dealing with something that I think is still seen as more of a privileged than even driving.

@@clocktowertx the problem is, if doctors profit from how they run their business, morals can change. I watched a movie about how doctors over prescribed opioids for pain. No oversight means even doctors can lose their moral compass.

@jocaguz18 I don't know about you, but every time I go to the hospital, it's not a life and death situation. I'd say most of the time, it's not anywhere close to being that. Vast majority of healthcare costs are NOT life and death. Also, if a hospital has a practice of being transparent with their prices and charges fair prices for procedures, they're less likely to gouge you if and when you do need them in an emergency situation.

That's because we have a lot of ignorance here in the U.S. I'm American and I'm amazed at people here reacting like that considering our health system is a big scam but since the true president of this country are the corporations the health industry gets away with murder. How is it that no transparency of prices is something legal??

Dajana Darling :) Well....We Americans about 35 % are DUMB IDIOTS, these are illiterate, uninformed or under informed who live mostly in boonies in their cubbyholes , mostly have extreme views and superiority complex...and they don't want to hear anything different because that is beyond their comprehension abilities... you know what I mean?

@@valsummerfield3069 Correct!

@@coolwtr033 They are also lazy and want handouts for choosing not to work. It is a sad state of affairs. People who have never seen Nebraska say there is too many people on the earth. The then cry out "health care for all" never knowing the consequences of their desires. It's just not about free stuff for all.

@@valsummerfield3069 Transparency in the US is perhaps a myth. Who are the owners of Federal Reserve Bank? Because there is nothing "Federal" about it, it's a private organization!

False

Medicaid exists

@@tech-hilfeportal6611 High fees charged by your crappy healthcare system also exist and are a fact.

Imagine that military grants were funding a whole lot of students and science programs in universities across the country. You don't have to imagine, that's how it is now.

Eli Nope imagine if every citizen had access to higher education and not just the sheep

@@liamjohnson8000 like on RU-vid? Check out Yale, MIT, and Khan academy. A whole lot of high quality education out there accessible to anyone with internet access.

Do you want to cut the military spending on the security we provide for other countries around the world too?

@@gio493 Killing innocent civilians, using our people as canon fodder, destabilising foreign Governments and seizing foreign assets is not security.

Arisgod27 chose Spain or Greece. It’s very cheap and lots of sunshine.

@@Lanja1991 Greece actually since I am Greek and speak the language. One of the most beautiful countries in the world, especially when you have some means.

Arisgod27 great. Then move there lol and with your retirement fund you can have a very lavish life style there because USA dollar has so much value in Greece

Hey there! People keep telling us that the insurers' price tools are terrible. Here's one story by one of our partners about that. www.philly.com/health/health-care-costs-price-estimator-tool-20190110.html

And here's another. www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/30/453087857/patients-want-to-price-shop-for-care-but-online-tools-unreliable