About an hour. All is good; however, please listen to the first 5 minutes. This is about how Hospitals price things. Prices are distorted by government regulations and the lack of the significant role of prices in the health care industry. This also shows how those without insurance have a hard time paying for health care.
|
Steven Lipstein, President and CEO of BJC HealthCare--a $3 billion hospital system in St. Louis, Missouri--talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of hospitals. They discuss pricing, the advantages, and disadvantages of specialization in modern medical care, and the culture and governance of non-profit hospitals vs. for-profit hospitals. At the end they talk about the positives and negatives of a national health board patterned after the Federal Reserve.
http://www.econtalk.org/lipstein-on-hospitals/ |
|
I am not stating I agree with all that is in this video, my main point with this video is that there are many different viewpoints on health care and government regulators push medical care in one way and regulate other methods out.
|
|
|