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Medical school mapped medicare payment, it found disconcerting differences from one part of the country to the other. for example, in 2007, the average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis, the dartmouth study showed the patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the countr...

Country to another. for example, in 2007, the average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis. the dartmouth study showed that patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami weren't any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? ...

Average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis, the dartmouth study showed the patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami weren't any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? we want more specialists. we want more procedur...

When a team from dartmouth medical school mapped medicare payments, it found differences from one part of the country to another. for example, in 2007, the average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis, the dartmouth study showed the patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts o...

Not worry about it now. let's worry about it in 2020 at which point the debt will be 20, $25 trillion, who knows? and then your children and your children and our children, even, are going to have to pay for this. >> and people in their 40s and 50s will not get medicare. they will not get social security in the current state. if we take care of it now, if we're responsible now, then we'll be fine later on. >> i look at my kids who are in their early 20s and i think to myself, my kids are going to have to pay for this debt, my medicare, my social security, all the stuff we're racking up right n...