Time magazine this week is out with a mammoth, 24,000-word story on the state of the U.S. health care system written by Steven Brill, an author who many best be known as the creator of CourTV. According to the story, Brill spent seven months researching why health care costs so much in America.
What he found isn't pretty. While the overarching themes may not be new -- like that Americans pay higher prices for medical products and services than people in other nations, that perverse financial incentives can lead health care providers to over-treat and patients to demand treatments they may not need, and that private health insurance companies operate less efficiently than Medicare -- Brill lays them out in stark, personal terms rich with detail. The entire story is worth a close read.
Brill attempts to confront problems with the health care system he believes routinely are taken for granted.
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