12/06/2013

Dissecting America’s $3 Trillion Medical Bill

17:06 minutes

In “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” a 26,000-word investigative piece in TIME magazine, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill catalogues the myriad reasons for America’s skyrocketing healthcare costs, from extravagantly paid administrators at nonprofit hospitals to bloated bills for hospital care. And Obamacare, he argues, won’t do much to solve the problem.

Segment Guests

Steven Brill

Steven Brill is the co-founder & CEO of Journalism Online in New York, New York.

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About Christopher Intagliata

Christopher Intagliata was Science Friday’s senior producer. He once served as a prop in an optical illusion and speaks passable Ira Flatowese.