Very interesting story. On my blog (mydatamine.blogspot.com) I posted some numbers from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 2008 about how this might ramp nationally.
i truly wish this was being done in maine, im on disability and health care here is astronomical at the same time dr.'s here dont seem to care or be current on med's for their patients. sometimes my dr.tries to prescribe something that is potential fatal to me i have to decline and she look's at me like im being difficult. it's all computer lap tops and no real interaction. so sad i do so want to improve my health.
I thought it was great until around 11:39. I work at a hospital. At my hosptial we don't make money on poor people. We lose money taking care of poor people. I welcome better health care for everyone. I appreciate Dr. Brenner's work but I don't understand this last minute suggestion that hospitals are evil. When it says there is a 50% savings does that include the added cost of Dr. Brenner's team of nurses and social workers?
I understand that the guy is poor.. But is that an excuse for not cleaning your own house? It attributes to his condition and cleaning the house shouldn't be that difficult.
Is the guy too sick to clean his own apartment? No, he's just another product of liberal america. Ignorant rich people who shower the downtrodden with handouts and programs. Result? People with zero drive and motivation who feed off the state. Liberals solution to health care costs being shot up through programs like medicaid, more spending!
@mikeboosh The money spend on Medicaid, which I guarantee if it's still available when you retire, you'll take advantage of, is a drop in the bucket compared to the money siphoned off for fake wars against fake enemies to line the pockets of weapons contractors. I agree the health care industry is a big damn mess, but this guy is showing one of the ways to fix it. POLITICIANS created this mess, not liberals. And that's what's wrong today. We're too busy pointing fingers and calling names.
@LexBravary Actually, there are *more* episodes of FRONTLINE than ever before. Some of them, however, have several segments in one hour. This is one of those segments.
@PBS Well wonderful then! I am an avid viewer of your program online. When I noticed your episode length shorten I asked a friend of mine in journalism and he responded that Frontline's funding has been cut. Thank you so much for doing what you do. I'll continue to view Frontline so long as the quality of the programing remains top tier. Much Thanks to you.
Well done to the coalition...I hope this spreads through the rest of America and in general wherever there is private healthcare...because our health is the most important thing in our lives, and medical organisations should most definitely NOT be taking advantage of this!
I like this video, but even moreso I like the description which is the first time in the longest time I can say I honestly read a neutral-toned words from the media.
healthcare for profit doesnt work. Why? Because the healthcare providers make more money when we are sick. The solution is simple. Pay them for every healthy person and reduce their pay when a patient gets sick. All the chronic diseases would vanish within a decade.
@fight2Bfree It's not that simple but even if healthcare providers (defined as physicians, nurses, etc .. but NOT hospitals or healthcare organizations) WERE greedy and out to game the system, the actual cost of that segment of the healthcare dollar has been relatively constant over the course of decades... roughly 19 to 21%. Granted that's a lot of money but the vast majority is in the cost of hospitalization, testing, equipment, and the expansion of healthcare demands by the public.
@DocDLH Sure, we have the latest and greatest scanners, testing facilities, equipment and drugs. Are we healther in general? No, we are sicker than ever. Why? Again.. because the industry is not concerned about our health. They have the system set up to maximize their profits. They are happy to shove a tube into some dying elderly patient on medicare and keep them alive for $10,000 a day but if you cant afford insurance, an ER visit will ruin you financially.
@fight2Bfree ..continuing... healthcare has expanded to what once was a small almost "cottage industry" to a huge INDUSTRY. The problem is "target rich" but the new plans are designed largely by planners who are making presumptions and enacting change (at an enormous cost) without clear evidence that it will work. Targeting specific large cost areas would be a lot wiser than a draconian overhaul of a system that is good in quality but in need of repair in delivery.
@fight2Bfree Not really. Some chronic diseases have no treatment or cure. I have anemia from birth, genetic. I also have gastritis, which hasn't responded to proton pump inhibitors (well, I take them so I don't get an ulcer, but after 4 years, my stomach hasn't improved). My mom has an undiagnosable intestine problem, and my father has type 2 diabetes.
When you are trained to use guns, that training should include how to apply direct pressure to gun shots wounds shouldn't it, or is this part of a "genocide of neglect"? I drunk off duty police officer told me, "We let them kill themselves, and I'm not risking my life for them." I believe the lack of a decent social-net is part of the plan. The lack of a first-world level health care shows blood-thirsted bigotry, and I for one am ashamed.
The problem with HealthCare is that it has been HIJACKED by GREED!
The unfortunate side of that is the TAXPAYER picks up a lot of the costs through Medicare-Medicaid so we're paying for this.
HealthCare in America should be NON-PROFIT!
Pay the Doctors and Nurses well as they have an incredibly stressful job but the industry as a whole should not make enormous profits for saving lives of Americans!
Private insurance bureaucracy consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar.
@PsychStudent85 Medicine as an INDUSTRY : for every physician there is about 15 to 18 non physician providers and about 5 administrative support staff. I'm not sure if these stats include the insurance industry and its ilk (I just asked Bureau of Stats for that). If there are ~ 800,000 practicing physicians and osteopaths that means that the ancillary cost of non physician support is around 16 million people .. even allowing an error of 50% that is 8 million people in healthcare delivery alone!
Very interesting story. On my blog (mydatamine.blogspot.com) I posted some numbers from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 2008 about how this might ramp nationally.
maguirejon 6 months ago
a ten year old can buy a machine gun in 5 minutes in CAMDEN NJ.
foreverflavorful 6 months ago
This practice will never get off the ground. To many CEO's and shareholders will make sure it never does. There is no money in a healthy population.
Angelsigns2012 6 months ago
@Angelsigns2012 yeah but medicare and medicaid is looking into things like this
fallfrisco 1 month ago
This is awesome, I wish this man luck! Change in this country will come one day...this gives me hope.
FissionNonStop 6 months ago
HOTSPOT WHERE
HOT AS IN TEMPERATURE RADIATON
SPOT AS DIRECTION
NU13NU13NU13 6 months ago
fantastic
iqbalvakula 6 months ago
A bucket of bleach costs about a dollar. Clean your goddamned house, you lazy morons!
UnchangeableBird 6 months ago
Camden police.....are there even police in Camden anymore? I mean enough to make a difference and that have the right morals!!
gravityhammer25 6 months ago
@gravityhammer25 Yes.
8yume 6 months ago
their most expensive and lucrative patients are the poorest and sickest among us. F@$KING EVIL society we live in. ::::sighs heavily::::
PureHumboldt 6 months ago
i truly wish this was being done in maine, im on disability and health care here is astronomical at the same time dr.'s here dont seem to care or be current on med's for their patients. sometimes my dr.tries to prescribe something that is potential fatal to me i have to decline and she look's at me like im being difficult. it's all computer lap tops and no real interaction. so sad i do so want to improve my health.
freya2961 6 months ago
Read Atul Gawande's books!
macroorchidism 6 months ago
AnInvisiblecomment 6 months ago
I thought it was great until around 11:39. I work at a hospital. At my hosptial we don't make money on poor people. We lose money taking care of poor people. I welcome better health care for everyone. I appreciate Dr. Brenner's work but I don't understand this last minute suggestion that hospitals are evil. When it says there is a 50% savings does that include the added cost of Dr. Brenner's team of nurses and social workers?
BitzBitzBitz 6 months ago
I understand that the guy is poor.. But is that an excuse for not cleaning your own house? It attributes to his condition and cleaning the house shouldn't be that difficult.
Agrashsallam 6 months ago
I love this man!!! Angels do exist!!
BillieJolene1 6 months ago
everything don't happens like we want.
ghanshyamomshah 6 months ago
Is the guy too sick to clean his own apartment? No, he's just another product of liberal america. Ignorant rich people who shower the downtrodden with handouts and programs. Result? People with zero drive and motivation who feed off the state. Liberals solution to health care costs being shot up through programs like medicaid, more spending!
mikeboosh 6 months ago
@mikeboosh The money spend on Medicaid, which I guarantee if it's still available when you retire, you'll take advantage of, is a drop in the bucket compared to the money siphoned off for fake wars against fake enemies to line the pockets of weapons contractors. I agree the health care industry is a big damn mess, but this guy is showing one of the ways to fix it. POLITICIANS created this mess, not liberals. And that's what's wrong today. We're too busy pointing fingers and calling names.
MrHomeChef 6 months ago
I'm sad that Frontline has had budget cuts, resulting in shorter episodes.
LexBravary 6 months ago
@LexBravary Actually, there are *more* episodes of FRONTLINE than ever before. Some of them, however, have several segments in one hour. This is one of those segments.
PBS 6 months ago
@PBS Well wonderful then! I am an avid viewer of your program online. When I noticed your episode length shorten I asked a friend of mine in journalism and he responded that Frontline's funding has been cut. Thank you so much for doing what you do. I'll continue to view Frontline so long as the quality of the programing remains top tier. Much Thanks to you.
LexBravary 6 months ago
if you like FRONTLINE - DOCTOR HOTSPOT you will like HOW TO LAUGH AT RACISM
differentandalike 6 months ago
Well done to the coalition...I hope this spreads through the rest of America and in general wherever there is private healthcare...because our health is the most important thing in our lives, and medical organisations should most definitely NOT be taking advantage of this!
sofiamoreira16 6 months ago
it work well for rich
samantha34ize 6 months ago
it work well for rich white ppl with money if u broke u out out
samantha34ize 6 months ago
aaaa
MrDiesel992 6 months ago
4/5 doctors recommend praying to battle epilepsy.
100cjkennedy 6 months ago
these people should be the one leading the nation, not those senators,
souleaterfan1234 6 months ago
I like this video, but even moreso I like the description which is the first time in the longest time I can say I honestly read a neutral-toned words from the media.
And it links sources!!!!!!!
HollowFlight 6 months ago
Huh? Is this like free-lance doctors going out to help people?
Someone explain
ImSoLadyGaga 6 months ago
healthcare for profit doesnt work. Why? Because the healthcare providers make more money when we are sick. The solution is simple. Pay them for every healthy person and reduce their pay when a patient gets sick. All the chronic diseases would vanish within a decade.
fight2Bfree 6 months ago
@fight2Bfree It's not that simple but even if healthcare providers (defined as physicians, nurses, etc .. but NOT hospitals or healthcare organizations) WERE greedy and out to game the system, the actual cost of that segment of the healthcare dollar has been relatively constant over the course of decades... roughly 19 to 21%. Granted that's a lot of money but the vast majority is in the cost of hospitalization, testing, equipment, and the expansion of healthcare demands by the public.
DocDLH 6 months ago
@DocDLH Sure, we have the latest and greatest scanners, testing facilities, equipment and drugs. Are we healther in general? No, we are sicker than ever. Why? Again.. because the industry is not concerned about our health. They have the system set up to maximize their profits. They are happy to shove a tube into some dying elderly patient on medicare and keep them alive for $10,000 a day but if you cant afford insurance, an ER visit will ruin you financially.
fight2Bfree 6 months ago
@fight2Bfree ..continuing... healthcare has expanded to what once was a small almost "cottage industry" to a huge INDUSTRY. The problem is "target rich" but the new plans are designed largely by planners who are making presumptions and enacting change (at an enormous cost) without clear evidence that it will work. Targeting specific large cost areas would be a lot wiser than a draconian overhaul of a system that is good in quality but in need of repair in delivery.
DocDLH 6 months ago
@fight2Bfree Not really. Some chronic diseases have no treatment or cure. I have anemia from birth, genetic. I also have gastritis, which hasn't responded to proton pump inhibitors (well, I take them so I don't get an ulcer, but after 4 years, my stomach hasn't improved). My mom has an undiagnosable intestine problem, and my father has type 2 diabetes.
mostliberal 6 months ago
When you are trained to use guns, that training should include how to apply direct pressure to gun shots wounds shouldn't it, or is this part of a "genocide of neglect"? I drunk off duty police officer told me, "We let them kill themselves, and I'm not risking my life for them." I believe the lack of a decent social-net is part of the plan. The lack of a first-world level health care shows blood-thirsted bigotry, and I for one am ashamed.
bluegreen1138 7 months ago 9
The problem with HealthCare is that it has been HIJACKED by GREED!
The unfortunate side of that is the TAXPAYER picks up a lot of the costs through Medicare-Medicaid so we're paying for this.
HealthCare in America should be NON-PROFIT!
Pay the Doctors and Nurses well as they have an incredibly stressful job but the industry as a whole should not make enormous profits for saving lives of Americans!
Private insurance bureaucracy consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar.
PsychStudent85 7 months ago
@PsychStudent85 Medicine as an INDUSTRY : for every physician there is about 15 to 18 non physician providers and about 5 administrative support staff. I'm not sure if these stats include the insurance industry and its ilk (I just asked Bureau of Stats for that). If there are ~ 800,000 practicing physicians and osteopaths that means that the ancillary cost of non physician support is around 16 million people .. even allowing an error of 50% that is 8 million people in healthcare delivery alone!
DocDLH 6 months ago
Well, it will get better but not by god...
WICKEDMAN9MM 7 months ago
America, god what a shit hole it's become.
intuitiveexplorer 7 months ago
I like Frontline!
khunopie 7 months ago 12