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OK. Link 'n' Share. I just had been ignoring it, because I thought, you know, I'm only 34 years old. So we took the men with prostate cancer. What the Dartmouth group discovered is that the patients in the most costly regions where Medicare spent more money on patients, those patients did not have better health outcomes. We pay doctors to see patients, so they see a lot of patients. She had bypass surgery in her 30, 27 cardiac cauterization and well over seven stents before she went to the Cleveland clinic for treatment. MARTIN: Uh-huh. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, Mr. Fields. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The healthcare reform bill that was enacted achieved two of the insurance industry's major objectives. KATY KASCH, HEAD NURSE, AIR MOBILITY COMMAND: Yes. (MUSIC & CREDITS) GUPTA: We can't leave the conversation right there. GUPTA: But, why are these causing hospitals so expensive? It is an IV like this, about $280 just for the IV bag. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) I'm tired of it. Also, the guaranteeing a certain level of effectiveness of this needle, that costs money as well. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. The US healthcare system has to be overhauled to put the patient's needs above the doctors and the insurers. This is going to caused about %800 dollars. He lit a match and he lit a fire at his own feet. JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning, folks, how are you? The really astonishing part about the fact that we spend more is we have worse health outcomes. He said, it was a year. You've done some sweating. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we have about 25 patients for today for Dr. Martin. So here I am going in and out of the hospital to find out what's going on. And it will not protect you from having a heart attack. I mean, give me a break. DR. ANDREW WEIL, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: All I hear is how we're going to give more people access to the present system and how we're going to pay for it. It's not visible, but it's there. They said, absolutely, it's been demonstrated that acupuncture is safe and effective, especially with post-operative and injury pain. The bigger issue is how do you deal with his enormous prices, you were just talking about with Nancy? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) DR. PAMELA ROSS, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: Hello, Dr. Ross. You don't necessarily make a lot of investments in preventive care for someone who's not going to be a part of your health plan for a long period of time. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It wears on your lower back wearing, you know, a 40-pound vest. This is Prazosin. ESCAPE FIRE exposes the perverse nature of American healthcare, contrasting the powerful forces opposing change with the compelling stories of pioneering leaders and the patients they seek to help. More tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country. NISSEN: When I watch the networks, half the ads are for pharmaceutical agents. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was OK. Kind of gave me more idea on what to eat. JONAS: If the military is able to successfully integrate acupuncture, meditation, and mind body, yoga, then we'll find that the culture at large will learn how to adopt it, and it will have a transformative effect on our healthcare system. And interestingly, patients really respond to that. And they have to, these for-profit companies by law have to serve shareholders. Are my premiums going to go up? All Dogs Go to Heaven 2/Transcript. I mean, where did that idea come from? Format your transcript file. Escape Fire. I ultimately had a crisis of conscience, because I was not at all proud of what I was doing. That cost about 1,000You'll find examples like this all over a room. Our life span isn't even in the top 20. So he figured I was going to die because I was in such bad shape. Trying to get Medicare to cover a heart disease program has been by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life. In Latin, it means, above all, do no harm. Tom's Escape In The Fire Escape. Because of this program that's here, the yoga. BROWNLEE: More than half of men over the age of 50 get a PSA test every year to try to detect prostate cancer early. LT. COL. BETTY GARNER, RESEARCHER, U.S. ARMY: Welcome to Germany. There was obviously a problem. I think that's an important point. JONAS: There's very large randomized trials done at multiple centers that have demonstrated that acupuncture works, so we put together a study to see if we can actually insert this simple acupuncture technique during the aerovacs of wounded soldiers into Walter Reed and other medical centers in the United States. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I do it again on Friday. Little did I know that it was followed by years of the same thing over and over and over again. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have had enough. MARTIN: Have you cut yourself before? Ten allotted. But we end up being this revolving door. You're two or three times as likely to get a heart catheterization or have a stent in your coronaries. I want to show you how it works. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Safeway's healthcare costs have remained flat compared to a 40 percent jump for most other companies. It was a passion for healing. He was featured in the film. We need a whole new kind of medicine. And then clearly we have social and economic issues that impact people's ability to access if you look at our percentage of un-insurers. Now as you know heart and blood vessel diseases kill more Americans than virtually more than everything else combined. They told no one. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd be chomping narcotics. These perverse incentives that you described? DR. PETER CARROLL, CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: My path crossed with Dean's because we both wanted to bring rigorous clinical trial testing to this hypothesis that lifestyle intervention could have a impact on men with early stage prostate cancer. GUPTA: Erin, what did you think about that particular theme? As a society, we have to make it easier and more affordable for people to make better lifestyle choices than worse ones. Thanks all of you for joining us. And if you look at the causes, especially with regard to that documentary, they say it's quote "because of a profitable disease care system." more . He's like really not listening very well. If someone has compression of one of their lungs, they might need a chest tube like this, $1100. WEIL: Most of this huge effort of the healthcare industry is devoted to intervention in established disease and the majority of that disease is lifestyle related and preventable. I stopped taking my medicine months ago. Do you understand? May everyone be well. I mean, I can't think of a single negative in doing this. WGRZ reported that crews encountered heavy fire and thick smoke coming from the building at 747 Main St., after they got the call at 10:08 a.m. A Mayday was called early in the operation. He overdosed. That requires so much work, but we do it because we're committed to having her stay out of the hospital. MARTIN: Barely? If you ask the manufacturers a device like this, why so much money? DR. CLIVE ALONZO, HOSPITAL INTERNIST, CROWN POINT, INDIANA: My medical training was just focused on giving these patients pharmaceuticals or giving them expensive tests to treat the condition after it occurred. It was either come and get care there or not get care at all. And how to know if you're being prescribed unnecessary procedures. Meditation takes the place of that. DR. ANDREW WEIL, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: Hippocrates said let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. CARROLL: We found that the men who underwent lifestyle intervention, their PSA rates generally went down and they were less likely to require treatment. Even when bad things happen, it's not because people have bad intentions, it's that our system is all fouled up. It argues that American medical treatment is largely focused on getting people into hospitals and giving them drugs, two profit centers that are hugely expensive and supported by massive lobbying campaigns. I mean, that sounds like a really dire situation. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How are you? A different perspective that there's a different way of doing things, that it's possible. Just do something. If someone had talked to her, I think someone had really teased down her chest pain and her shortness of breath. The next 30 minutes are all about you, the patient, whether you're insured or not insured, it matters. DR. STEVEN NISSEN, CHAIRMAN, CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE, CLEVELAND CLINIC: The problem is, if you have stable chest pain, we have very good studies dating back a number of years that show that getting a stint will not prevent a heart attack, and will not make you live longer. And maybe it would be easier to take care of people and keep them from getting sick before they actually did get sick. An Entrenched System. And they formed a group practice they decided that they would pay themselves a salary and the money that was left would go back into growing the organization. And I say that as doctor. We're on track for that on Tuesday. BULLIS: Soldier know if they go to war and they get a leg blown off, your medic is going to take care of you and the same thing needs to apply that if you have post-traumatic stress. ROBERTSON: Right. MARTIN: How much were you drinking before? So, a hospital like the one you just saw there. This is major reason why we see kids getting fat in this country. She had had bypass surgery at an early age. Receive your transcript. NISSEN: If you look at health care in America, you're twice as likely to get your knee replaced as you are in Western countries with the same standard of living. Frederick Douglass forcefully advocated for others to escape slavery, and in doing so violated laws in southern states that specifically criminalized this speech. Physical Desc: U.S. caregivers are told you've got to keep me pain free, you're going to do that. STEVE BURD, CEO, SAFEWAY: In 2005 we had a billion-dollar health care bill rising at the rate of $100 million a year. No eastern medicine. People with chronic disease who come in and out of hospitals, bouncing in and out of ERs, that's what they need, someone to really take an interest. So, I went into the hospital and they told me I had had a heart attack. 5. It was with a huge amount of skepticism and resistance. That was how many medications I was on. We have a lot more power over how healthy we are than we are willing to take credit for or willing to take responsibility for. You're doing this radical intervention, you know, I say radical? MARSHALL: So, anybody that's having a heart attack should get a stent. Delhi Building Collapse Video: 100 , And the problem is, some of those procedures will lead to bad outcomes. It doesn't reward them for keeping their patients healthy. We have a disease management system. GUPTA: United health care makes a lot of money. When I'm running and it's a hot day and I feel like giving up, it never fails. NIEMTZOW: Normally you would? This is a lot worse. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes. In the dialog that appears, select the language of the file you're uploading. Do you want to tell me about some of those that you lost? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Soldiers' use of prescription drugs has tripled in the past five years. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You need to get up and pee? We need to change the nature of medicine. Some would say overrewarded specialty and subspecialties. Or at least we think we do. Prevention is cost effective. It's generating rivers of money that are flowing into very few pockets. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm going to leave these in for about five, seven minutes. GUPTA: I mean, both physically and mentally. It's a happy time in my life right now. So, we decided to give you a look at a typical operating room bill and that breaks down. So we provide incentives for people to engage in healthier behavior. The fire broke out around 10 p.m. Monday at the Cozumel Apartments in the 6400 block of Sierra Blanca Drive near Westpark Tollway and Highway 6. It is so addictive. Our forefathers in medicine were really about patients. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's pretty good. We have some challenges with access and affordability. (END VIDEO CLIP) NISSEN: I was doing a Google search, and what I found was a Web site in the United Kingdom where the clinical trials done with Avandia were actually partially disclosed. Here's a couple simple tips. The brain is not particularly good at distinguishing thirst and hunger, so we often eat when we should be drinking, things like water. I was a bit surprised. You almost forget that what you're doing is providing healthcare. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not, not when I'm doing that. We're talking about a $3 or $4 billion a year drug. WENDELL POTTER, FORMER HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS, CIGNA: I don't recall any time telling a lie, but I know that there are many times that I didn't disclose full information, and I was the company's chief spokesman. GUPTA: For everybody here. I'm interested in helping patients. Determine, did you indeed have two MRI's during the course of one week? BERWICK: It's really easy to find articles or speeches 30 years ago in which leaders were calling for change, unsustainable costs, problems and outcomes in quality. I'd have my pizza, I'd have my comics, I'd have my DVDs, and that was the weekend. War's hell, it's always hell. NISSEN: I do. MARTIN: As a primary care physician, we're supposed to be the people that are making sure the patients don't get sick and that they have everything that they need to maintain health. Not having to eat all these pills. If it happened to me, it happens to a whole lot more people that are almost invisible to the system. So, less than 30 percent are actually done in these people with stable ischemic heart disease. The medication depresses you, it makes you think that it's all you're ever going to be in. MARSHALL: Yes, sir. It's too much paying for it. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was issued the bottle today with 20 in it and 10 are missing. So diabetics, (INAUDIBLE) costs. 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