texas. thanks, bill. up next, it is back to earth for space x. take a look live at the historic mission for civilians on board. they are set to splash down in the next 40 minutes. plus, a setback for president biden after the fda rejects giving booster shots to most americans. dr. marty mccarry says it is a major pushback against political pressure. the good doctor joins us next.
at our hospital. before initiating a collections suit against anyone, we make multiple attempts, usually trying to contact our patients 10 to 12 times to offer manageable payment plans and additional discounts off of already discounted charges. in many cases, patients do not respond to our calls or letters. most other hospitals in the area make a different choice. artesia general and lincoln county medical center over the past ten years, none of them have sued patients for debt collection. it s not known how many hospitals in the u.s. garnish patients wages like carlsbad medical center does. a study in one state, virginia, found that in 2017, 36% of hospitals garnished wages. dr. marty mccarry, a physician at johns hop cakins university, one of the study s authors. tell me about carlsbad, new mexico. a wonderful small town of about 28,000. classic americana town. reporter: in his new book the price we pay he has a whole chapter on carlsbad medical center. we met misty price.
dr. lee vanocher. professor at louisiana state university health shreveport. dr. marty mccarry, cancer surgeon at johns hopkins university, and dr. ben carson, professor emeritus of neurosurgery at johns hopkins as well. thank you all for being here. i want to start the first panel and talk about what you re seeing out there, the problems now that we hear from patients and consumers. what are you seeing out there? well, you know, i run into obviously a lot of patients because i m all over the country and a lot of physicians, and it seems like the biggest problem is that we have insinuated into the doctor-patient relationship a lot of things that don t need to be there. what do you need for good health care? a health care provider and a patient. well, along comes the middleman to help facilitate the relationship and now it has become the predominant entity
these pill mills and get to the users, they can t even begin to make a department in the problem. jon: unbelievable. john roberts in atlanta, thanks. jenna: one of the facts being that prescription drugs are more dangerous than heroin and cocaine combined? just think about that for a second. dr. marty mccarry is a professor of public health at the johns hopkins school of medicine. dr. mccarry, why so dangerous? this is something that, you know, you think about prescriptions, you think they re safe. why are we seeing such a rise in overdosing? well, um, we are sort of taught in medical school that when somebody takes a medication, they take it once every day as we prescribe them. but the reality is people miss doses, their body gets accustomed to a medication, they may take extra doses, forget they took one earlier in the day and take double a dose, so people don t take medications as they re prescribed. their bodies react differently. everybody is different. and the ones that are add
8-12 inches from the outer banks, 6-10 inches for jersey, new york, and connecticut, and the ground is saturated here. it s just going to be like runoff because it s like a sponge. the sponge is full of water, and there s nowhere else to go with what s happening, and it s just going to flood the streets and, perhaps, flood homes, and people really need to take those precautions. rick, back to you. rick: well, hopefully, they are. janice, thank you very much. jenna, over to you. jenna: dr. marty mccarry is here, professor of public health and health policy at johns hopkins. we re going to talk about a new study on vaccines in the just a moment, doctor, but we wanted to talk a little bit about from a health professional s standpoint, when you hear this sort of story, 65 million potentially affected by this storm, what are you most concerned about? well, the common things we see with these big disasters are that people don t anticipate that the power will go out and that the water sup