Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
Jeanne Pinder: ¿Qué pasaría si todo gasto de atención médica en EE. UU. fuera transparente?
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,
tres cirugías menores,
alone was 2,000 dollars;
de anestesia fue de USD 2000;
I'm like, what's up with that?
Y pienso, ¿qué pasa con eso?
for the expensive one,
for a generic anti-nausea drug
genérico contra las náuseas
for two dollars and forty-nine cents.
argument with the hospital,
discusión con el hospital,
that this was totally fine.
que esto estaba bien.
I talked to people, the more I realized:
con la gente, más me daba cuenta:
what stuff costs in health care.
lo que cuesta la salud.
that procedure or test
de ese procedimiento o prueba
what it's going to cost.
an "explanation of benefits"
una "explicación de los beneficios".
a little while later.
un poco más tarde.
from the New York Times,
para una compra del New York Times,
20 years as a journalist.
más de 20 años como periodista.
era construir una empresa.
was to build a company
lo que cuesta la atención médica.
in health care.
"Shark Tank" para hacer precisamente eso.
pitch contest to do just that.
consumieron casi el 18 %
of our gross domestic product last year,
el año pasado,
as a cash payment for simple procedures.
en efectivo por procedimientos simples.
simplemente groseras.
let us tell you that,"
no nos dejan decirte eso".
que aquí en el área de Nueva York,
that here in the New York area,
for 200 dollars in Brooklyn
por USD 200 en Brooklyn
just a few miles away.
a pocas millas de distancia.
el mismo análisis de sangre simple,
la misma resonancia magnética,
for all the procedures
para todos los procedimientos.
que nos contaran sus facturas de salud.
to tell us their health bills.
de radio pública WNYC aquí en Nueva York,
WNYC here in New York,
los precios de sus mamografías.
the prices of their mammograms.
that it was too personal.
que era demasiado personal.
for people to share their data
las personas compartieran sus datos
de búsqueda en línea.
and the Waze traffic app for health care.
para el cuidado de la salud.
por la comunidad para los costos de salud.
guide to health costs.
grew into partnerships
se convirtió en asociaciones
a nivel nacional.
Miami and other places.
about people who were suffering
sobre personas que sufrían.
to avoid that "gotcha" bill.
para evitar esa factura horrible.
nearly 4,000 dollars using our data.
casi USD 4000 con nuestros datos.
saved nearly 1,300 dollars
ahorró casi USD 1300,
who are going to in-network hospitals
que van a los hospitales de la red
that continued to bill a dead man.
cobrando a un hombre muerto.
wanted to tell us their prices.
querían decirnos sus precios.
them and their friends and families.
afecta a ellos, a sus amigos y familiares.
tuvieron que vender un auto
to sell a car to pay a health bill,
que entraron en bancarrota
permitir el diagnóstico
sobre costes
sí, pero también con sus pacientes,
but also their patients,
al consumidor que se había estancado
that had been stalled
public health crisis
de salud pública
going to help us out anytime soon.
nos ayude pronto.
fuera realmente simple
los precios todo el tiempo?
Our health premiums?
¿Nuestras primas de salud?
del mundo desarrollado,
of the developed world,
to worry about money.
que preocuparse por el dinero.
will not solve every problem.
precios no resolverá todos los problemas.
nuestro sistema de seguros.
with overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
tratamiento y diagnóstico excesivo.
the cheapest appendectomy
la apendicectomía más barata
about these clear effects,
de estos efectos claros,
that's actually very simple.
que en realidad es muy simple.
para pedir precios,
we were going to be arrested.
que nos iban a arrestar.
to talk about medicine and health care
hablar de medicina y salud
out there in the system
y honesta en el sistema.
a obtener la atención que necesitan
get the care they need
in health care in advance?
adelantado lo cuesta la atención médica ?
you Googled for an MRI,
en Google resonancia magnética,
where to buy and for how much,
dónde comprar y por cuánto,
you Google for a laser printer?
una impresora láser en Google?
and money that's spent hiding prices
dinero que se gasta ocultando precios
the $19 test every time
elegir la prueba de USD 19
you'll never know.
nunca se sabrá.
un montón de dinero.
and the system itself
muchos de nosotros y el propio sistema
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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