American Disease (translated Documentary)
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The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NPR Best Books of 2017. "The New York Times" medical reporter directly attacks the pain of the American medical insurance system! Why does a test that charges $1,000 in a top teaching hospital in the United States cost $7,000 in some small community hospitals in New Jersey, but only costs $100 in Germany and Japan? We live in an era filled with medical miracles such as organ transplants, gene therapies, life-saving drugs, and preventive strategies, but it's incredible that the U. S. Health care system remains overpriced, inefficient, confusing, and full of injustice. In the face of disease, everyone is a potential victim of medical robbery. The United States spends nearly one-fifth of its GDP on health care, more than $3 trillion for the year, equivalent to the entire economy of France. Despite this, the medical insurance effect achieved by the United States with this money is generally lower than that of any developed country, and the per capita expenditure in these countries is only half that of the United States. For Americans, who hasn't opened a medical bill and stared at the scary numbers in disbelief? Who hasn't been bewildered by copays, deductibles, "in-network" and "out-of-network" terms on their insurance policy, only to write a check under the threat of collection? Who hasn't been stunned by a $500 bill for a simple blood test, a $5,000 bill for three shots in the emergency room, a $50,000 bill for a minor outpatient foot surgery, or a $500,000 bill for a three-day hospitalization for a heart attack? Where has all the money gone?
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