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What if all US health care costs were transparent?

Jeanne Pinder · TED

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About

In the US, the very same blood test can cost $19 at one clinic and $522 at another clinic just blocks away -- and nobody knows the difference until they get a bill weeks later. Journalist Jeanne Pinder says it doesn't have to be this way. She's built a platform that crowdsources the true costs of medical procedures and makes the data public, revealing the secrets of health care pricing. Learn how knowing what stuff costs in advance could make us healthier, save us money -- and help fix a broken system.

The talk

  1. What if all US health care costs were transparent? 7 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED Residency
Speaker
Jeanne Pinder
Year
2018
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Economics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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