To control those nerves of yours, my dear. Vo geico, committed to providing service to its Auto Insurance customers for over 70 years. More information on Auto Insurance at geico. Com or 1800947auto any time of the day or night. Rose funding for charlie rose was provided by the following kohl captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven brill is here, he wrote the cover story of this weeks Time Magazine. It is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. It is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. It took brill seven months to research and write. He analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an Drug Companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment im pleased to have Stef Steven Brill back at this table, welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose what got you here this longest piece. As you know i like to pick topics where i just feel that im curious about them. And for a long time i ha
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven brill is here, he wrote the cover story of this weeks Time Magazine. It is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. It is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. It took brill seven months to research and write. He analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an Drug Companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment im pleased to have Stef Steven Brill back at this table, welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose what got you here this longest piece. As you know i like to pick topics where i just feel that im curious about them. And for a long time i have just been curious about why healthcare costs so much. You know, weve had years of debate about who should pay for health care. How should we do insurance, and who should pay the bills. But ive never seen anyone stop to say hey, wait a minute, how come if will cost you 20 or 25,000 dollars i
Much. Whoses making the money. Ges making money on the cat scans, the hospital c. E. O. It turns out is making 2 or 3, or 4 million. That is the stuff i started to find out. Rose you did what any good reporter does, go to the original source. I just got bills am everybody said first you will never get bills because there are proif see issues. I said well i will promise the patients privacy but some of these patients will be so angry they will beg me to put their names in, which is what happened. And then came the really hard part. The bills if you have ever looked at a hospital bill and you may not have because you have good insurance, the bills are indecipherable. They are in like double code. And no consumer can understand those bills. Theyre acronyms, numerical codes and line by line i just decoded them. And figured out what they cost. For example, if one of the patients is getting a cancer drug from memorial sloankettering, i figured out how much it cost the hospital to buy that dr
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven brill is here, he wrote the cover story of this weeks Time Magazine. It is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. It is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. It took brill seven months to research and write. He analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an Drug Companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment im pleased to have Stef Steven Brill back at this table, welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose what got you here this longest piece. As you know i like to pick topics where i just feel that im curious about them. And for a long time i have just been curious about why healthcare costs so much. You know, weve had years of debate about who should pay for health care. How should we do insurance, and who should pay the bills. But ive never seen anyone stop to say hey, wait a minute, how come if will cost you 20 or 25,000 dollars i
Much. Whoses making the money. Ges making money on the cat scans, the hospital c. E. O. It turns out is making 2 or 3, or 4 million. That is the stuff i started to find out. Rose you did what any good reporter does, go to the original source. I just got bills am everybody said first you will never get bills because there are proif see issues. I said well i will promise the patients privacy but some of these patients will be so angry they will beg me to put their names in, which is what happened. And then came the really hard part. The bills if you have ever looked at a hospital bill and you may not have because you have good insurance, the bills are indecipherable. They are in like double code. And no consumer can understand those bills. Theyre acronyms, numerical codes and line by line i just decoded them. And figured out what they cost. For example, if one of the patients is getting a cancer drug from memorial sloankettering, i figured out how much it cost the hospital to buy that dr