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And it's the same for the ladies working in the maquilas.". So that's another thing I'm scared of. Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson have been looking into that. Thanks as always to our show's co-founder Torey Malatia. Theo started telling Herson that this was an operation using civilians to test the security of area banks. It has these. I just don't think that it's realistic to have that responsibility fall on the physician. Many of them, undoubtedly, joined the ranks of the uninsured because their employers had been purged. You'd probably go home with a lot more groceries, and you wouldn't skimp on the luxuries. Who Would Win In A Fight Between A Polar Bear And An Insurance Company? OK, so I've always sort of had a little bit of acne. It's not how I was brought up. And at first I thought he was joking. And did you make fun of mascots when you were in high school or middle school? They're giving you a hint that there is a difference in the drug's total cost. She explains that it's all legitimate, that it's for the federal government. You see outside through Paul's chest hair. We Won a Peabody Award for Our Coverage of the Fall of Roe v. Wade. This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International. A mortgage broker named David Philp discovers that his old punk band from the 1970s is hot in Japan. Aetna's options haven't changed because our health care system hasn't changed. She did end up healing, but continues to scrape at it infrequently. Harvard psychologist: The toxic money mindset that even - CNBC My colleagues surveyed a few thousand of the world's wealthiest people, asking how much . That's the way Eileen sees it, except for the bad guy thing. And so in 2007, the pharmaceutical industry marshaled its counterattack, that mysterious card you heard at the beginning of this story, their central weapon-- coupons, a whole bunch of coupons. Let's go slide somewhere. He stands next to Babe, his 36-foot tall blue ox. We get these insurance statements that are nearly incomprehensible with those insurance codes and prices that make no sense, and some things get covered, and some don't. I used to babysit Navey. He also told them, go to my car and in there, you'll find an immunity letter that Theo gave me. He denied any involvement in the killings, but the police kept questioning him. So you can't find workers. April 9, 2010 Planet Money, ProPublica and This American Life collaborated on a project that's airing this weekend on This American Life. All of this started to worry Navey's dad, Karl. We'll be zero copay. "I said to her, I told you. But still only around 9% of Americans have it. Down the hall, dogs with cancer are getting chemotherapy. He can wink. Where are the bathrooms? It's This American Life. And the message says, hey, I've got a job for you. By that point, he was crying. And all family pride aside, she is the best mascot I have ever seen. And insurance company jargon, frighteningly decoded. Why not? I know I'm not the only person who feels this way. [LAUGHS] It is funny, though. You don't even know. Without the card Ted's copay would have been $154.28. You and your fancy acne medicine. It stressed him out. And so what would happen if Herson got into trouble in the bank, like if somebody tried to attack him or something in the bank or called the police? I just sit there and do my work, be quiet. I mean then are you going to start saying, well, should I really do this biopsy because I'm not really sure that it's really that significant of a difference in that mole and it might cost you $1,200 in the end if this doesn't get covered. OK, dear economist, I have a letter I wrote out here to you. Painting themselves as clean and full of sunshine. There it is. But only up to a point. And hospitals, at least what we would think of as a hospital, they didn't really even exist. And I just had to roll over and pretend to be asleep. Please let me wear it. So by the start of World War II, this employer-based health insurance is spreading. And the fact is the patients were more expensive because we were paying the doctors and the hospitals more for the same services than our competitors were. She's very snugly. Managing someone else's money - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau For we are seen as weak, but in reality we are not. The answer is that they were in markets in which we did not have very significant presence. Hey, sure. Contracts hospitals found it hard to live by. And at this point, I would say something about how it's better not to find out who's behind the mask and I would start the show WBEZ Chicago, Public Radio International, all that blah, blah, blah. Quote by Milton Friedman: "Nobody spends somebody else's money as Ted Sarah is in the middle of a war. They are noisy old buses, reasonably clean, but in a state of decay that everyone accepts. After the man left her house, Maria Alejandra told her sister what happened and that she was going to report it to the police. For Melissa Thomasson, she says that either extreme, a competitive market system where consumers know what price they're paying, what they're getting, which would probably drive the price of health care down, or a government run system, which would cover everyone would be better than the accidental mixture that we have today. Right. Paul and Babe are part of a roadside attraction called Trees of Mystery. But there are some people who respond better to Lipitor. This year is the 100th anniversary of a remarkable discovery. It doesn't exist. Gradually over time, you reach a sort of a detente, which is they're not willing to admit that their idea is a delusion, but they're willing to admit that acting on it isn't in their best interest. What that means is that big insurers are less and less able to resist rate hikes demanded by big providers. Money isn't just about numbers. Or is it the same? Josh's family didn't play much of a role in his daily lifeuntil duty called, and they took over his life. More Evidence That Spending Money On Others Makes Us Happier - Forbes Navey's mind was blown, because here's this person who got to act like an animal all the time. Veterinarians are animal people. So the only way for him to be healthy is to remove the triggers. The teller asked Herson to wait for a few moments. Yes, he said, they did it under the influence of marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. The walls are covered in decaying soundproofing tiles and torn installation. A really expensive system that doesn't cover us all. Even though the doctors had said that there was evidence of sexual assault, Maria Alejandra says the police questioned her as if she was making it all up. Our employer's paying for part of it. She poked at him with gloved hands and told him, OK, we're going to put you on a couple topical creams and some antibiotics, a drug called Solodyn. That's what really makes me laugh. So we're at the football game and she's texting my wife and just saying, hey, you don't love me. And she beelined it onto the field. It just grows like gangbusters. You can open up a women's magazine and get these. You know, it really isn't as fun. There is somatic, thinking you've got a medical or health condition you don't have. And Navey has a secret identity that actually isn't so secret. Initially, he didn't want to tell them anything. Social responsibility matters to business - A different view from And I'm going to leave you another one in case you want that to be in reception or if you want to give it to a client or--. With filmmaker Maisie Crow, we recorded the day Roe v. Wade was overturned in the . He's not an animal lover. By the 1920s, even before the crash, the cost of health care had gotten so high that a lot of people stopped going to the hospital unless they were so sick they had no choice. Calming serum and a calming mask. After all, this was Virginia, CIA country. The surgeon is about to make a cut just below the knee. So how long after this phone call did the spate of robberies take place? He'd vetted Herson, Theo said, so he knew all about a misdemeanor theft charge from when Herson was a teenager, the sort of charge that was sealed in juvenile records. "Previous studies show that spending money on others makes people happier than spending it on themselves," say the authors of the research, led by Hajdi Moche of Linkoping University in Sweden. This American Life: Created by Adam Beckman, Alex Blumberg, Ira Glass, David Schisgall, Julie Snyder, Christopher Wilcha. He sounded authoritative and exasperated and explained that he was with the CIA. Diana the Hunter is the goddess of women and childbirth, who, like many other Roman gods, acts out of basic human feelings, like rage and revenge. Actually, when people talk about how to reform health care in our country, this is one of the things they talk about changing. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Which of course, is the upside to insurance. People like Sally Beatty at Pfizer. We now see a ladder and a bunch of pipes and wires heading up. Because what will you have to do if everybody gets the more expensive drug? So the insurers put a $30 copay on one and $10 copay on the other. This step plays out over a number of years and it starts, like all the other steps, almost completely by accident, in a bureaucrat's office at the Internal Revenue Service. While I was in Juarez, I spent more time riding the buses on route 4 than doing anything else. The big difference is that people with schizophrenia have crazy delusions that nobody believes, like believing that the CIA is using telepathy to read your thoughts or believing that you're Jesus Christ. Navey's never been able to do a cartwheel. Oh, they look stupid. You may not get to the point where they agree that they weren't really acting as a special agent for the FBI, or where they agree that there isn't really a plot against them. Keep their money . It was just the saddest thing to watch and know that there's no way that you can help him. Absolutely. Who can tell me why she might have done that? That's what Lipitor does, reduce cholesterol. Season 1. They wouldn't talk to me. And what were those markets for you guys? 805 IMDb 8.4 2007 6 episodes. Because the hospital can't survive without those 75,000 sick people. They told them, you pay us $6 a year. He worried about his job prospects and his finances, but mainly he worried about losing Emily. Employers want to improve their workers' lives. More than that $20 copay some of us have to cough up when we go to the doctor. And he shrugs, like I have nothing, and then bows to her, shakes her hand, and walks off the field. What took her so long to report the intrusion? [LAUGHS] You're blowing their cover here. During classes I just won't talk to kids around me. Our program was produced today by Jane Feltes and myself with Alex Blumberg, Sean Cole, Sarah Koenig, Lisa Pollak, Alissa Shipp and Nancy Updike. She recognized him. My friends would say to me, if you're going on the route and no one's there, take a pen with you with the point facing outward, because you never know. I mean, Superman, he's got glasses and a suit and tie. Now I want to jump in here and really focus on this. I suppose it helps the recession to have this complexity because it hires more people to do coding. They were all as hopeless as Herson, running out of the banks before anyone could give them any money. They're trying to say, fine, you're promoting generic, CDPHP. All with the stiff, hydraulic-powered gestures you would expect from a statute built in 1962, which he is. Because I'm not allowed to. At the time, I just thought, oh, that's dreadful. By the way, in the month since Ted started taking Solodyn, a generic version has come out. A little under two months after he was released and remanded to psychiatric counseling, he was picked up again, this time charged with impersonating a Department of Homeland Security agent. Expensive enough that people start thinking, wouldn't it be nice if someone else paid for this? Producer Dana Chivvis picks up the story of Dave and Chris and their show Dopey. (27 minutes). And the only difference in this is that it has wipes? You had an affair with that guy, didn't you? And so what they tell people is you legally cannot raise prices. I mean we think that one of the strengths of our system is that they are not competing on hospital prices. When he's talking about, we didn't have good contracts with hospitals, does that ring true to you? And my grandpa just said, did they say that you could wear it? And that may be true. We'll call them, they'll pick you up. In Maryland, for the past 30-plus years, a state commission has set prices for all procedures at all hospitals. They got people spending their money on health care, and it also got them to use health care more. The high school athletic director was there and he came up to her after and said, look, if you want to do this again, just let us know. The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis. Maybe he felt embarrassed about being taken in by Josh. And it was different from the usual potions and nostrums. Here is a success story of a person, who became a fashion buyer. Pesky interlopers who don't even know the price of the pills we're buying. Now, they distribute them to patients too. And by the way, doesn't go to doctors. Just look at how the number of people with employer-based health insurance changes over time. Point is, this is the moment, the moment that the drug makers weapon makes its way into the hands of its oblivious soldier, Ted. Like, oh, people are going to judge me from what I look like. Beyonce's "Single Ladies," she can do that. I wish I had a half hour with him to explain it to him. After that, the number of women who were killed just kept growing. It was a living hell for them both. Many, many customers who couldn't pay the increased rates dropped Aetna's insurance. And as she got older, Navey discovered a more socially acceptable way to do the same thing, when, in second grade, the elementary school mascot-- a husky dog-- stopped by her class for the first time. To help financial caregivers, we offer easy-to-understand guides. Now in a lot of markets, you could just make the pitch, this will make you a lot of money, and that would work really well. In this guide, we'll explore the legal and financial options available to family caregivers and provide practical tips to effectively manage someone else's money. And it appealed to corporations then because the '20s and the '30s is the great period of corporate welfare capitalism too. Now this ruling, it was actually vaguely worded and pretty confusing. And so we've had to do some experimenting on her. And then, six hours after Herson was arrested, Detective Vickery got a call from a number he didn't recognize. So there was Herson at the police station, facing 25 years in prison and crying. The veterinarians have something called stop treatment, which is a concept where they actually measure how much will somebody spend on medical procedures until they'll say it's too much and we're just going to put the pet down. Do you know the price difference between those two drugs? How can you tell if a hedgehog is psychotic? Six Jobs for People Who like Spending Someone Else's Money Host Ira Glass talks to Rob Lamberts, a doctor and blogger in Georgia, who describes the crazy world of medical billing, where armies of coders use several contradictory different systems of codesand none of it makes us healthier. The first season begins with the saga of Chance, a Brahma bull who met President Bush, appeared in a movie with Vince Vaughn, and guested on The Late Show . But the truth of this story is a little more complicated, a little less Machiavellian, and tells you a lot about how the insurance industry works. Contrary to what his critics allege, Jack Rowe says Aetna did not drop customers because they were sick. Frum is a regular contributor to the radio show Marketplace. Planet Money's Chana Joffe-Walt explains why prescription drug coupons could actually be increasing how much we pay, and prevent us from even telling how much drugs cost. Last week on our show, one of our producers, Sarah Koenig, did a story about the insurance industry and health care costs, where she talked to some of the people who run the insurance company, Aetna, and to an economist who studies all this. And then some ears. Solodyn is better. And VPI paid 70% of the first bill, 60% of the second bill, 43% of the third bill. What they really wanted is to have a powerful block to negotiate with the insurer. And he said, I want to tell you something, but you're not going to believe what I'm going to tell you. You can go online and get these. You won't notice that anything has happened to her six months from now. Our program was produced today by Brian Reed with Alex Blumberg, Ben Calhoun, Sarah Koenig, Miki Meek, Johnathan Menjivar, Lisa Pollak, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, and Nancy Updike. This American Life : Planet Money : NPR You know, I used to invite people over for Sunday dinner. Let's just back up there. Dr. Nelson couldn't talk to me about Josh Brady's case, but he explained to me that delusional disorder is like a cousin to better known psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. It all started, he said, a few days earlier. What we have right now is the result of lots of historical accidents over the last hundred years. Thing is, the fight over red pills and blue pills is decades old. I stick my head in and look up. Well, you know, there's that fuzzy area there because he's so big we can't really get him to do what we want him to do all the time. It's nothing like our modern system. Cut to the next day at school and she's just this super awkward teenager who doesn't want any attention drawn to her. Minocycline, the one that you have to take twice a day costs $109 a month, total. They could charge us less in premiums, which we all want. Thomas Sowell. Because the hospital can live without their, say, 600 patients. Dubious renters could pretend to be you in order to secure a new mortgage on your property and then run off with the cash, as was the case in Canada recently. They don't want an insurance company telling them how to practice medicine. Plus they'd forgotten to bring a bag. Here's Elna to explain. Dogs will trust just about anyone, she says, but hedgehogs, you have to earn their trust. I wonder if in moments on his route, he was thinking about Diana the Hunter, and the words she said to the second bus driver on the morning of August the 29th.

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