As regular readers know, Academy-Award-winning documentary film-maker Alex Gibney (“Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room,” “Taxi to the Dark Side”) has produced a 90-minute documentary based on my book, Money-Driven Medicine. Andrew Fredericks directed the film and I narrated it.
ABC’s Nightline interviewed Alex and me about the film in a segment that aired August 11. Below, a link. (When you get to the website, scroll down and click on Nightline, August 11 on the left hand side of the screen)
Money-Driven Medicine producer Alex Gibney and author Maggie Mahar interviewed on Nightline's Tuesday, Aug 11 show.
Watch the interview here.
If you are interested in either buying or renting a DVD of the film, go to www.moneydrivenmedicine.org.
Slightly off topic but …
Interesting article in the Wall St. Journal on Friday August 7th titled: “France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost”.
France has a high quality universal health care system that costs approximately half (as a percent of GDP) of what the US health care system costs. However, the rate of inflation of health care costs in France is causing problems for the French government which is trying to introduce various cost saving measures.
Interestingly, “France is actually in the midst of shifting to a fee for service system for its state run hospitals. The hope is that it will be easier for the government to track if the money is being spent efficiently …” What do the French know (or think they know) that we don’t?
I cannot find screening info for this doc. How do I see this film? Thanks!
Heather–
Thanks much for your interest.
If you go to http://www.moneydrivenmedicine.org/ and scroll down, and look on the left-hand side of the page, you will find,that you can buy or rent the DVD– starting Aug. 20
Everyone has issues with health costs. Everyone has issues with health quality. It’s just that the US has more issues on those things than anyone else, since cost is much greater and quality worse.
Fee for service components exist in most countries. However, it is interesting to note that the fee for service for French hospitals is for the institution, not the doctors. The doctors in almost all French hospitals, private and public, are employees. In that respect France resembles the Mayo Clinic, which is a fee for service health care system that pays its employees, including all its doctors, on salary.