2 Dec (60 MINUTES) – If you want to know why health care costs so much in this country, consider this, it’s estimated that $210 billion a year — about 10 percent of all health expenditures — goes towards unnecessary tests and treatments and a big chunk of that comes right out of the pockets of American taxpayers in the form of Medicare and Medicaid payments. (Full transcript)
Doctors Pressured to Admit Healthy Patients or Lose Jobs
December 6, 2012