that medicare.tion that is not a shared sacrifice.o one sectionin awards bonus poin to the hospital that is spend ts the least per senior.or. not spend the least per patient. spends the least persenior. oh, your bypass was very successful, mr. hannity.so go home. w whatha is the ultimate solutn for the problem of so many y americans not having health insurance? i think the answer is we stoa this because it won t work.wor i prefer medical savings ngs accounts with catastrophic care. build the money up over a fetim. lifetime. so we need to educate the public on that. the problem with that is, ifs people don t have preventative care that is going to increase the chance of chronic illnesses. patient accounts incentivize preventative care. i m sorry. t go ahead. - i don t want the government t deciding what kind of health care i have. options. i want options. the alternative? w we really haven t had for des. decades. that is real free markets in
cents of every dollar we will pay to the government will go towards health care. a rather astounding figure. the highest in the world, by far. and health care is the biggest driver of america s debt and deficits going forward. so, what to do about it. we have a terrific debate between two great american businessmen who have done deep investigations in to the issue. steven brill the founder of court tv and american lawyer magazine decided to follow the money in medicine. the result was the recent time magazine cover story, the bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. david goldhill ceo of game show network. his father died from a hospital infection and he wrote a book about it. catastrophic care - how american health care killed my father and how we can fix it. we can joined by david goldhill and steven brill. david, your basic argument is that health care does not function the way most markets function.
americans have to file their taxes by tomorrow and around 20 cents of every dollar we will pay to the government will go towards health care. a rather astounding figure. the highest in the world, by far. and health care is the biggest driver of america s debt and deficits going forward. so, what to do about it. we have a terrific debate between two great american businessmen who have done deep investigates into the issue. steven brill the founter of court tv and american lawyer magazine decided to follow the money in medicine. the recent time magazine cover story. the bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. david goldhill ceo of game show network. his father died from a hospital infection and he wrote a book about it. catastrophic care. how american health care killed my father and how we can fix it. we can joined by david goldhill and steven brill.
a book and a magazine cover story provide some very useful ways to think about it. the central debate between democrats and republicans is over whether the free market works well in health care. in a new book, catastrophic care, david goldhill makes the case for the market arguing that people need to become consumers of health care so that they, not insurance companies, not the government, actually see, feel and pay the bills. that will force producers of health care, doctors and hospitals, to push down prices and drive up quality. that s what happens with groceries and television sets and computers. lasiks surgery which is not covered by health insurance, has seen a 90% drop in price and increase in quality since it was introduced in the 1990s. that s what happens when consumers pay for a product. makes an opposite case in a recent cover story in time magazine. he pain stakingly went through the actual bills that hospitals
hearing not just in terms of who is voting for whom, but the fact that the medical profession, those are the people who have reasons to oppose this legislation and their hope that the supreme court fixes it in the next 24 hours. frank, by the way, great focus group. we have more to come. i love health savings accounts, port ability, competition, catastrophic care. there s so many good ideas we around getting into. we will continue more with the great focus group coming up after the break. later we go live to the arizona border where one brave american has set up hidden cameras along the border. the footage that you are going to see tonight that we have captured is going to leave you stunned. hopefully the obama administration is watching that, as well. people like options.