Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
진 핀더(Jeanne Pinder): 미국의 의료 비용이 투명하게 공개된다면?
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,
alone was 2,000 dollars;
마취비만 2,000불(약 210만원),
6,000불(약 700만원)이었어요.
I'm like, what's up with that?
그래서 왜 이런지 궁금해졌어요.
for the expensive one,
for a generic anti-nausea drug
안하는 평범한 멀미약이
for two dollars and forty-nine cents.
받더라고요.
argument with the hospital,
그리고 고용주와
말다툼을 하게되었어요.
that this was totally fine.
I talked to people, the more I realized:
많은 사람들이랑 말해본 결과
what stuff costs in health care.
알고 있는 사람이 없는 것 같아요.
that procedure or test
후에 병원비가 얼마인지
what it's going to cost.
an "explanation of benefits"
"혜택 설명"을 받는데
a little while later.
경험하게 되었습니다.
from the New York Times,
20 years as a journalist.
was to build a company
어떻게 구성 되어있는지 알려주는
in health care.
pitch contest to do just that.
같은 것에서 이겨서 할 수 있었죠.
of our gross domestic product last year,
18%를 차지했던 의료비가
as a cash payment for simple procedures.
얼마 받을지 물어봤어요.
let us tell you that,"
라고 답을 하긴 했지만
that here in the New York area,
for 200 dollars in Brooklyn
받는 초음파 검사를
just a few miles away.
받으면 2,150불(약 220만원)이에요.
522불(약 55만원)이에요.
MRI 사진 촬영은
6,221불(약 650만원)이에요.
for all the procedures
확인할 수 있었고
볼 수 있었어요.
to tell us their health bills.
얼마 냈는지 물어보기 시작했어요.
WNYC here in New York,
WNYC와 합동해서
the prices of their mammograms.
얼마를 내는지 물어봤어요.
that it was too personal.
참여 안 할 것이라고 생각했어요.
for people to share their data
정보를 공유할 수 있게
데이터베이스를 만들었어요.
and the Waze traffic app for health care.
정보앱을 섞어 놓은 것 같은 의료앱이에요.
guide to health costs.
의료비 가이드라고 불러요.
grew into partnerships
Miami and other places.
about people who were suffering
받고 있는 사람들의 이야기를 공유하고
to avoid that "gotcha" bill.
피할 수 있는지에 대해 이야기했어요.
nearly 4,000 dollars using our data.
이용해 거의 4,000불(약 450만원)을 절약했어요.
saved nearly 1,300 dollars
who are going to in-network hospitals
병원들에 다니면서도
that continued to bill a dead man.
돈을 청구하는 병원도 있었어요.
wanted to tell us their prices.
공유를 하고 싶다는 것을 알게되었어요.
어떻게 구성이 되어있는지 알고
있는지 알아 내며
them and their friends and families.
이 문제를 해결하는 것을 돕고자 합니다.
to sell a car to pay a health bill,
사람들과도 이야기 했어요.
치료는 못 받는
but also their patients,
환자들과 관련된
that had been stalled
10년 동안 통과하지 못한
통과를 할 수 있었어요.
public health crisis
이 공중 보건 위기는
going to help us out anytime soon.
도울것 같지도 않고요.
간단하다면 어떨까요?
Our health premiums?
또한 건강 보험료는요?
볼 수 있는 문제라는 것입니다.
of the developed world,
to worry about money.
will not solve every problem.
해결할 수 없는 것을 알아요.
있을 수 있습니다.
with overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
계속 있을 것이에요.
가능한 것도 아니에요.
the cheapest appendectomy
맹장 수술을 받고 싶어 하거나
하는 것도 아닙니다.
about these clear effects,
계속 이야기 할수록
that's actually very simple.
살피고 있다는 것을 알 수 있어요.
물어보려고 전화를 했을 때
we were going to be arrested.
to talk about medicine and health care
다소 관습에 거스르는 것 같기도 하면서
out there in the system
사람들도 찾았기 때문입니다.
get the care they need
치료를 받을 수 있도록 돕고자 하는
물어보기 더 쉬워졌어요.
in health care in advance?
얼마일지 알게 되면 어떨까요?
you Googled for an MRI,
얼마일지 구글에 검색해 볼 때마다
where to buy and for how much,
어디에서 얼마에 살 수 있는지
you Google for a laser printer?
and money that's spent hiding prices
숨기려는 시간과 에너지를
the $19 test every time
있게 된다면 어떨까요?
you'll never know.
물어보지 않으면 알 수 없죠.
and the system itself
많은 이들과 제도 자체가
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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