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>> you spent 7 months trying to figure out why hospital costs were so high. where did that search take you? >> well it took me first and foremost to actual bills. i decided i didn't want to write some policy essay about healthcare and what i was concerned about is with all the debate in obamacare about who should pay for the high cost of healthcare, what kind of insurance should people have, how do we cover the high cost. i was concerned with why does it cost so much? so i took bills and looked at every item on the bill whether it was a charge of $13,000 for a cancer drug or $67 for a box of g...

>> you spent 7 months trying to figure out why hospital costs were so high. where did that search take you? >> well it took me first and foremost to actual bills. i decided i didn't want to write some policy essay about healthcare and what i was concerned about is with all the debate in obamacare about who should pay for the high cost of healthcare, what kind of insurance should people have, how do we cover the high cost. i was concerned with why does it cost so much? so i took bills and looked at every item on the bill whether it was charge of $13,000 for a cancer drug or $67 for a box of gau...