up and for people that can t afford it the government is going to subsidize the premiums. the costs are going to go up. it does nothing to attack the $13,000 price for the drug transfusion or the $77 price for the gauze pads. it does nothing to deal with it. wow, when we come back, i want to ask you about something called the charge master. i find that to be one of the
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you spent 7 months trying to figure out why hospital costs were so high. where did that search take you? well it took me first and foremost to actual bills. i decided i didn t want to write some policy essay about healthcare and what i was concerned about is with all the debate in obamacare about who should pay for the high cost of healthcare, what kind of insurance should people have, how do we cover the high cost. i was concerned with why does it cost so much? so i took bills and looked at every item on the bill whether it was charge of $13,000 for a cancer drug or $67 for a box of gauze pads and i traced who got all that money and how come and who is making out, you know, like a bandit and what i found is we basically had been living in two economies in this country for the last ten years. there s the economy where you and i know where people are hard pressed jobs are tight and money is tight and then there s the healthcare economy where
figure out why hospital costs were so high. where did that search take you? well it took me first and foremost to actual bills. i decided i didn t want to write some policy essay about healthcare and what i was concerned about is with all the debate in obamacare about who should pay for the high cost of healthcare, what kind of insurance should people have, how do we cover the high cost. i was concerned with why does it cost so much? so i took bills and looked at every item on the bill whether it was a charge of $13,000 for a cancer drug or $67 for a box of gauze pads and i traced who got all that money and how come and who is making out, you know, like a bandit and what i found is we basically had been living in two economies in this country for the last ten years. there s the economy where you and i know where people are hard pressed jobs are tight and money is tight and then there s the healthcare economy where everybody is doing really well
gauze pads for 7.50 at a nearby drugstore but some hospitals charge patients $77 for them. this antibiotic retail here, for about $6 a tube. guess what hospitals charge for this same item? $108. you got a headache? i bet you do now after hearing about what the hospital is charging. well, you can get 100 of these pain reliever pills for 1.50 online. 100 for 1.50. hospitals mark them up 100 their street costs. they charge 1.50 per pill. steven wrote a very special report for time magazine called bitter pill. why medical bills are killing us. well i spoke to him recently about why hospitals charge so much. you spent 7 months trying to