Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
Jeanne Pinder: ABD'de sağlık harcamaları şeffaf olsa nasıl olurdu?
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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üç küçük cerrahi müdahale geçirdiler.
had three bits of minor surgery,
alone was 2,000 dollars;
2.000 dolardı;
I'm like, what's up with that?
''Neyin nesi bu?'' diye düşündüm.
for the expensive one,
aslında en pahalı olarak
for a generic anti-nausea drug
alabileceğim mide bulantısı hapına
for two dollars and forty-nine cents.
argument with the hospital,
ve işverenim ile
bir tartışma yaşadım.
that this was totally fine.
normal olduğuna karar kılmıştı.
I talked to people, the more I realized:
ve insanlarla konuştukça şunu fark ettim:
what stuff costs in health care.
neyin ne kadar olduğunu bilmiyor.
that procedure or test
what it's going to cost.
bilmiyorsunuz.
an "explanation of benefits"
yazan bir belge alıyorsunuz.
a little while later.
from the New York Times,
New York Times'ta
20 years as a journalist.
was to build a company
insanlara sağlık hizmetlerinin
in health care.
bir şirket kurmaktı.
pitch contest to do just that.
bir saha yarışması kazandım.
of our gross domestic product last year,
yüzde 18'i sağlık harcamalarına gitti
hakkında fikri yok.
as a cash payment for simple procedures.
peşin ödeme kabul edeceklerini sorduk.
let us tell you that,"
izin vermiyor'' dediler.
that here in the New York area,
for 200 dollars in Brooklyn
just a few miles away.
2150 dolara çektirebilirsiniz.
for all the procedures
tüm prosedürlerde
to tell us their health bills.
söylemelerini istedik.
WNYC here in New York,
WNYC ile ortaklık içinde,
the prices of their mammograms.
ücretini söylemelerini istedik.
that it was too personal.
bunu paylaşmaz dediler.
for people to share their data
araştırılabilir veritabanımızda
and the Waze traffic app for health care.
karıştırıp sağlığa uyarlamak gibi.
guide to health costs.
harcamaları rehberi diyoruz.
grew into partnerships
ortaklığa dönüştü.
Miami and other places.
ve başka yerlerde.
about people who were suffering
bu dertlerden ve sürpriz faturalardan
to avoid that "gotcha" bill.
verileri kullandık.
nearly 4,000 dollars using our data.
yaklaşık 4.000 dolar tasarruf etti.
saved nearly 1,300 dollars
sigorta kartını bir kenara koyup
who are going to in-network hospitals
anlaşma dışı faturalar alan
that continued to bill a dead man.
devam eden bir hastane var.
wanted to tell us their prices.
söylemek istediğini öğrendik.
them and their friends and families.
problemi çözmemize yardım etmek istediler.
to sell a car to pay a health bill,
insanlarla konuştuk.
but also their patients,
insanların katıldığı
that had been stalled
public health crisis
toplumsal sağlık krizi
going to help us out anytime soon.
yardım edeceğini hiç sanmıyorum.
kamuya açık yapmak.
Our health premiums?
Sağlık sigorta primlerimiz?
of the developed world,
to worry about money.
endişelenmek zorunda değiller.
will not solve every problem.
çözmeyeceği de doğru.
with overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
sorun yaratacak.
the cheapest appendectomy
about these clear effects,
that's actually very simple.
gerçek bir meseleye bakıyoruz.
we were going to be arrested.
to talk about medicine and health care
ilaçlar ve sağlık hakkında konuşmak,
out there in the system
almalarına yardımcı olacak
get the care they need
in health care in advance?
ne kadar olduğunu baştan bilsek ne olurdu?
you Googled for an MRI,
bir lazer yazıcı arar gibi,
where to buy and for how much,
alabileceğiniz hakkında
you Google for a laser printer?
and money that's spent hiding prices
zaman, enerji ve para
the $19 test every time
her zaman 522 dolar yerine
you'll never know.
asla bilemezsiniz.
and the system itself
birçoğumuz ve sistemin kendisi
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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