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Pretoria, south africa. it was inside a short time ago that a judge granted bail to olympic runner oscar pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend on valentine s day, so we will let you know when we see oscar pistorius. in the meantime, i think everybody s got a story about an expensive doctor s visit or hospital bill, but time magazine s new cover story bitter pill, why amedical bill are killing us breaks down the numbers. what they found is truly shocking. let me just give you one example. a patient was charged $199.50 for a troponin test. she is a year away from medicare. if she was a year older the same bill would have been $13.94. the prices are set by a computer called a charge master, and most hospital officials couldn t even really explain what it is other than that s how they ve always done it. i want to bring in time s senior editor jeffrey klugger. fantastic piece. ....
Center for a hospital. if you spend $250,000 for the unit, in one year it s paid for itself. every test you ask for after that is pure profit. now, they re motivated by profit and also they re motivated by the idea of covering themselves against possible malpractice suits. so tort reform, whether folks on the left would like to hear that or not, tort reform has to be a part of this. it s an amazing article. i recommend this to people. jeffrey kluger thanks for coming in. thanks for having me. the winter storm that dumped as much as two feet of snow in the midwest is moving toward the ohio valley today. parts of the northeast could see even more snow for a third straight weekend. we will have a live report coming up. plus, we re keeping our eye on what s happening in a courthouse outside a courthouse actually in pretoria, south africa where a judge granted bail to oscar pistorius. we ll let you know when we see him come out. stay with us. ....
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