SUMMARY:As health care costs continue to rise, practitioners in India are working to lower prices -- and bring their innovations closer to American shores. Health City Cayman Islands is a new frontier for India’s largest for-profit hospital chain. Focused on efficient health care delivery, its services are now drawing Americans to the Cayman Islands. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
SUMMARY: In the U.S., Medicare spending on dialysis accounts for nearly 1 percent of the entire federal budget, and the cost is growing. On the other hand, kidney transplants are actually less expensive and offer the possibility of getting back to work and off disability, but there are not enough [kidneys] for every patient in need. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at one idea for spurring donations.
You can thank Republicans that tried sell you Trumpcare as a good deal. Emergency Rooms are heavily used by the uninsured.
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SUMMARY: The cost of health care remains a big concern, even for people with insurance. A new analysis found the cost of emergency care has nearly doubled in the last eight years even as the total number of visits has stayed about the same. William Brangham talks with Sarah Kliff of Vox [monopoly link] about a special reporting project that's chronicling the impact of ER prices on individuals and families.
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