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captioning sponsored by public affairs television this week on bill moyers journal. moyers: how our health care system surgically removes your wallet. the current medical care system is not designed to meet the health needs of the population. it s designed to turn a profit. it s designed to meet the needs of the people in power. millions of people are uninsured. and sure, that s part of the problem. but that s not the whole problem. the whole problem is bigger than that. when you have a system that s built around generation of revenue, and that money is not being put back into the system to help people, we ve lost our way. from our studios in new york, bill moyers. moyers: welcome to the journal. the world of medicine has changed radically since i was a kid in east texas. back then, dr. sam tenney made house calls for a couple of bucks a visit. dr. granbury raced to a patient s side with such speed you could hear his tires screeching around the courthouse square
captioning sponsored by public affairs television this week on bill moyers journal. moyers: how our health care system surgically removes your wallet. the current medical care system is not designed to meet the health needs of the population. it s designed to turn a profit. it s designed to meet the needs of the people in power. millions of people are uninsured. and sure, that s part of the problem. but that s not the whole problem. the whole problem is bigger than that. when you have a system that s built around generation of revenue, and that money is not being put back into the system to help people, we ve lost our way. from our studios in new york, bill moyers. moyers: welcome to the journal. the world of medicine has changed radically since i was a kid in east texas. back then, dr. sam tenney made house calls for a couple of bucks a visit. dr. granbury raced to a patient s side with such speed you could hear his tires screeching around the courthouse square