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Apr 4, 2013 · Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. 122 minute read. Photo-Illustration by Sean Freeman for TIME. By Steven Brill. April 4, 2013 3:36 PM EDT. Corrections Appended: February 26...
Jan 5, 2015 · America's Bitter Pill. Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System. By Steven Brill. Purchase. While reporting on the rollout of the Affordable Care...
- What Brill’s Story Told
- The Rise of Different Incentives
- The After-Effects of ‘Bitter Pill’
The idea behind “Bitter Pill” sprouted in a Houston hotel room in 2012, as Brill stared off at the gleaming medical centers dotting the skyline. Brill, a lawyer and writer who also founded Court TV, was in town to speak at an education conference. But thinking about those skyscrapers, about the big business of American health care, got Brill desper...
Almost two years after Time published “The Bitter Pill,” it’s clear that something new has taken root. There are numerous services and apps purporting to help businesses and patients shop for care, with more cropping up by the month. Price-transparency firm Castlight Health has a $1 billion market valuation. Data on health care charges are increasi...
One reason why “Bitter Pill” might have less of a long-term impact is because of Brill’s odd potpourri of proposed reforms. His prescriptions — capping non-doctor salaries at $750,000, for example — tended to be politically unworkable or technically infeasible. And his heavy-handed focus on on executive compensation didn’t seem to land any lasting ...
Steve’s discoveries now come together in his new book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, from which this week’s...
Jan 26, 2015 · Steven Brill has written a comprehensive chronicle of the politicking behind the Affordable Care Act, spiced by personal insights stemming from his own surgery.
Mar 18, 2013 · The Bitter Pill: The Health Care Industry Responds. 5 minute read. TIME. March 18, 2013 12:00 AM EDT. Letters on TIME’s special report. COMPLETE COVERAGE: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. No...
Steven Brill. If you were as impressed and enlightened as I was by Steven Brill 's article on American healthcare in Time magazine, you should take a look at the conversation he had on March 7th with reporters and editors at ProPublica about the origins of the story, how he put it together, and how it came to be published in Time.
