How The Profit-Hungry "Medical-Industrial Complex" Hurts Health Care (VIDEO)
"Bill Moyers Journal" aired a new documentary on its show Friday about how the "medical-industrial complex" affects America's health care. Based on the book "Money-Driven Medicine" by Maggie Mahar, the film looks at why our health care costs are so high and yet the care is so often lacking.
Mahar, who has reported on health care for years, explains the situation as follows:
What I learned, during those years, is that in our health care system, profits often trump patients. A great many people are selling and selling hard. By law, for-profit corporations are supposed to put their shareholders' interests first: this means that they must strive to maximize profits. And this goes a long way toward explaining why U.S. healthcare is so expensive.
Watch a clip from the film below. See the whole thing at Bill Moyers Journal.
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Do go watch the video at the Bill Moyers Journal. There's a very fact-based talk about costs in medical care. It really goes to the core of why having health care as a profit-based industry is not in the best interests of patients.
At the very least, it should demonstrate in LETTERS 8 MILES HIGH how godawful our existing system is without reform.
ETA: FYI, the film is split into multiple parts at the Bill Moyers site, so you have to click on Part 2 above the viewing window once Part 1 is finished.