Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
Jeanne Pinder: Was wäre, wenn alle Gesundheitskosten in den USA transparent wären?
Jeanne Pinder asks why it's so hard to make sense of US healthcare bills -- and suggests what we might do about it. Full bio
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had three bits of minor surgery,
drei kleinere Operationen
alone was 2,000 dollars;
für die Narkose allein 2000 Dollar;
I'm like, what's up with that?
Was hat es damit auf sich?
for the expensive one,
for a generic anti-nausea drug
für ein generisches Mittel gegen Übelkeit,
for two dollars and forty-nine cents.
für zwei Dollar und 49 Cent.
Diskussion mit dem Krankenhaus,
argument with the hospital,
that this was totally fine.
I talked to people, the more I realized:
und ich realisierte immer mehr:
was Dinge im Gesundheitswesen kosten.
what stuff costs in health care.
that procedure or test
einem Eingriff oder einem Test
what it's going to cost.
was es kosten wird.
an "explanation of benefits"
die "Kostenerläuterung",
a little while later.
from the New York Times,
der New York Times entschieden,
20 years as a journalist.
als Journalistin arbeitete.
was to build a company
in health care.
im Gesundheitswesen kosten.
pitch contest to do just that.
für Gründerideen, um genau das zu tun.
of our gross domestic product last year,
unseres BIPs im letzten Jahr aus,
wie viel die Dinge kosten.
as a cash payment for simple procedures.
was einfache Eingriffe kosten.
let us tell you that,"
dass Sie es wissen".
that here in the New York area,
for 200 dollars in Brooklyn
eine Echokardiographie für 200 Dollar
just a few miles away.
nur wenige Kilometer entfernt.
for all the procedures
gab es für sämtliche Eingriffe
to tell us their health bills.
nach Arztrechnungen zu fragen.
WNYC here in New York,
WNYC hier in New York
the prices of their mammograms.
was ihre Mammographien kosteten.
that it was too personal.
niemand verraten, es sei zu persönlich.
for people to share their data
Informationen zu teilen
Datenbank einzutragen.
and the Waze traffic app for health care.
und der App Waze fürs Gesundheitswesen.
Überblick für Gesundheitsausgaben.
guide to health costs.
grew into partnerships
wurden zu Partnerschaften
Miami and other places.
Miami und anderen Orten.
about people who were suffering
über Menschen, die leiden
to avoid that "gotcha" bill.
und die horrenden Rechnungen.
nearly 4,000 dollars using our data.
fast 4000 Dollar mit unseren Daten.
saved nearly 1,300 dollars
sparte fast 1300 Dollar,
who are going to in-network hospitals
netzwerkbasierten Krankenhäusern
außerhalb des Netzwerkes.
that continued to bill a dead man.
an einen toten Mann.
wanted to tell us their prices.
berichteten von ihren Rechnungen.
them and their friends and families.
und Freunden und Familie schadet.
to sell a car to pay a health bill,
um eine Rechnung zu begleichen,
nicht in Behandlung.
Sie können sich die Diagnose leisten,
but also their patients,
und auch Patienten involviert waren
that had been stalled
wurde hingehalten
public health crisis
Gesundheitswesen-Krise
going to help us out anytime soon.
in näherer Zukunft zu Hilfe kommt.
Our health premiums?
Geringere Prämien?
of the developed world,
to worry about money.
will not solve every problem.
nicht jedes Problem lösen.
durch das Versicherungssystem.
with overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
mit Überbehandlung und Fehldiagnosen.
the cheapest appendectomy
die günstigste Blinddarmoperation
die deutlichen Effekte reden,
about these clear effects,
that's actually very simple.
das eigentlich ziemlich simpel ist.
we were going to be arrested.
to talk about medicine and health care
über Medizin und Gesundheitswesen zu reden
out there in the system
die notwendige Behandlung zu bekommen
get the care they need
in health care in advance?
was uns die Dinge kosten?
you Googled for an MRI,
wenn Sie bei Google nach MRT suchen,
wo Sie kaufen können und für wie viel,
where to buy and for how much,
you Google for a laser printer?
mit einem Laserdrucker machen würde?
and money that's spent hiding prices
und das Geld für das Verstecken von Kosten
für den 19 Dollar Test entscheiden kann
the $19 test every time
you'll never know.
werden Sie es nie erfahren.
and the system itself
und das System selbst
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jeanne Pinder - JournalistJeanne Pinder asks why it's so hard to make sense of US healthcare bills -- and suggests what we might do about it.
Why you should listen
Lifelong journalist Jeanne Pinder is founder and CEO of ClearHealthCosts, a digital media startup that demands price transparency from the US healthcare system. After taking a buyout from the New York Times, where she worked for more than 20 years, she won a Shark Tank-style competition with her ClearHealthCosts pitch and hasn't looked back.
Since its founding in 2011, ClearHealthCosts has won a slew of journalism grants and prizes and has reported on and crowdsourced health price data in partnership with prestigious newsrooms in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere. This work has won numerous journalism prizes -- a national Edward R. Murrow award, a Society for Professional Journalists public service gold medal and a spot as a finalist for a Peabody Award, among others.
Pinder and the company have won grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the International Women's Media Foundation, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and others.
Previously, in her native Iowa, Pinder worked at The Des Moines Register and the Grinnell Herald-Register, a twice-weekly newspaper that her grandfather bought in 1944.
Pinder speaks fluent but rusty Russian. In a previous lifetime, she lived in what was then the Soviet Union, a place almost as mysterious as the US healthcare marketplace.
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