Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
Jeanne Pinder: E se todos os custos da saúde nos EUA fossem transparentes?
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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precisaram de três pequenas cirurgias,
had three bits of minor surgery,
alone was 2,000 dollars;
era de 2000 dólares;
I'm like, what's up with that?
for the expensive one,
for a generic anti-nausea drug
por um genérico anti-enjoo
for two dollars and forty-nine cents.
por 2,49 cêntimos.
argument with the hospital,
e insatisfatória com o hospital,
that this was totally fine.
que aquilo estava correto.
I talked to people, the more I realized:
falava com as pessoas, mais percebia:
que as coisas custam na saúde.
what stuff costs in health care.
that procedure or test
dum procedimento ou duma análise,
what it's going to cost.
an "explanation of benefits"
uma "explicação dos benefícios"
a little while later.
um pouco mais tarde.
from the New York Times,
do New York Times,
20 years as a journalist.
durante mais de 20 anos.
was to build a company
foi criar uma empresa
in health care.
as coisas nos cuidados de saúde.
pitch contest to do just that.
tipo Shark Tank, para isso.
of our gross domestic product last year,
do nosso PIB, no ano passado,
de quanto custam as coisas.
as a cash payment for simple procedures.
pagamento em dinheiro
let us tell you that,"
não nos deixam dizer isso".
muitas informações.
that here in the New York area,
que aqui na área de Nova Iorque,
for 200 dollars in Brooklyn
por 200 dólares, em Brooklyn
à distância de poucos quilómetros.
just a few miles away.
análise ao sangue,
a uns quarteirões de distância.
apenas a 40 km de distância.
for all the procedures
existiam em todos os procedimentos
em que investigámos.
to tell us their health bills.
que nos mostrassem as contas da saúde.
WNYC here in New York,
WNYC, aqui em Nova Iorque,
the prices of their mammograms.
das mamografias.
that it was too personal.
nos diria isso, era demasiado pessoal.
revelaram os preços.
for people to share their data
para as pessoas partilharem os dados
and the Waze traffic app for health care.
com a aplicação de tráfego,
pela comunidade para os custos da saúde.
guide to health costs.
grew into partnerships
e o financiamento comunitário
com redações por toda a nação
Miami and other places.
em Miami e noutros locais.
about people who were suffering
sobre pessoas que estavam a sofrer
to avoid that "gotcha" bill.
como evitar essa fatura.
nearly 4,000 dollars using our data.
uns 4000 dólares, usando os nossos dados.
saved nearly 1,300 dollars
poupou quase 1300 dólares
who are going to in-network hospitals
que vão para hospitais da rede
that continued to bill a dead man.
a faturar um morto.
que nos queriam informar dos seus preços.
wanted to tell us their prices.
them and their friends and families.
que as prejudica, aos amigos e famílias.
o carro para pagar uma fatura,
to sell a car to pay a health bill,
por causa do custo.
conversa sobre custos,
but also their patients,
mas também os doentes,
as pessoas.
that had been stalled
que estava encalhada há 10 anos
public health crisis
de andamento lento,
going to help us out anytime soon.
nos vai ajudar, tão depressa.
Our health premiums?
Ou as apólices dos seguros?
of the developed world,
to worry about money.
de se preocupar com dinheiro.
will not solve every problem.
não vai resolver todos os problemas.
tratamentos dispendiosos,
sistema de seguros.
with overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
tratamentos e diagnósticos exagerados.
the cheapest appendectomy
a apendicectomia mais barata
about these clear effects,
that's actually very simple.
que, na verdade, é muito simples.
we were going to be arrested.
to talk about medicine and health care
falar de medicina e de cuidados de saúde
não apenas informações
out there in the system
no sistema
get the care they need
a terem os cuidados de que precisam
in health care in advance?
quanto custam as coisas?
you Googled for an MRI,
no Google uma MRI,
where to buy and for how much,
onde comprar e por quanto,
you Google for a laser printer?
pesquisamos uma impressora a laser?
and money that's spent hiding prices
e dinheiro gastos em esconder os preços
the $19 test every time
escolher sempre a análise de 19 dólares
you'll never know.
nunca o saberemos.
and the system itself
e o próprio 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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