<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/08dd4b8c-b0ee-426c-8738-ddecda15b364/77CD77A6-1AC9-49C4-AD31-5B72D9427D5B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.good.is/post/why-american-health-care-costs-so-much/" href="http://www.good.is/post/why-american-health-care-costs-so-much/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.good.is</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.good.is/post/why-american-health-care-costs-so-much/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.good.is/img/D20141DE-9774-44F3-A484-3DBDBA39526B" alt="Lipitor" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.good.is/post/why-american-health-care-costs-so-much/">Ezra Klein <A target="_blank" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/an_insurance_industry_ceo_expl.html">sat down with an insurance industry CEO</A> to try and better understand what’s going on with our health care system. The most interesting part of the conversation (to hear him tell it) was seeing charts that actually assign costs—in dollars—to different units of care (like pills, doctor visits, and lab tests), and then compare those costs to the same units in different countries. He describes the United States column in all the bar charts like “a New York skyscraper that got lost in downtown Des Moines” in comparison to all the other countries. And, <A target="_blank" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/an_insurance_industry_ceo_expl.html">looking at the charts</A>, it’s hard not to agree. The takeaway: our health care costs more because we let insurance companies and care providers charge more. In other countries, governments set the rates for different treatments and drugs.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/77CD77A6-1AC9-49C4-AD31-5B72D9427D5B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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