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>> that's pretty good. >> any pain? >> not when i'm doing that. >> normally you would? >> oh, yes. i haven't touched my toes in months. >> that means we're getting the needles in the right place. >> haven't gotten near my toes in months unless i do this. you know? ♪ >> hi. how are you feeling? >> i have pain, but it's more of an annoyance than it is pain. just sore. >> if you didn't have the acupuncture needles, how do you think you would be feeling? >> i'd be chomping narcotics. >> oh, you would? >> oh, yeah. >> so you haven't taken anything? >> no. >> because of that? that's good. >> 15 ye...

>> we're in the grip of a very big industry, and it doesn't want to stop making money. >> at the executive level, what's most important is meeting wall street's expectations, and they have to. these for-profit companies by law have to serve shareholders. you almost forget that what you're doing is providing health care. >> the health care system is unsustainable. we're spending almost twice as much in america as any other country on earth. we're really mortgaging the future. not just the health of health care. we're talking the health of the nation. ♪

Doesn't want you to die and it doesn't want you to get well. it just wants you to keep coming back for your care of your chronic disease. >> most of this huge effort of the health care industry is devoted to intervention in established disease and the majority of that disease is lifestyle related and preventible. i mean, to talk about how we shift toward -- away from disease intervention to prevention and health promotion, that requires a massive rethinking about medicine and health care at all levels of society. it has to do with expectations of patients. it has to do with the training of phy...

♪ >> what do you want? >> health care! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> all i hear is how we're going to give more people access to the present system and how we're going to pay for it. and to me that's not the only issue. the present system doesn't work and it's going to take us down. we need a whole new kind of medicine. >> health care reform was a good place to start, but it will do little to address the root problems. we don't have a health care system in this country. we have a disease management system. >> people often think it has to be a new drug or a new laser or something really h...

Rescue care is second to none. as an overall system, no, we're not anywhere near at the best in the world. i mean, look at our results. our life span isn't even in the top 20. >> we have a disease care system, and we have a very profitable disease care system. and the disease care system actually, i mean, if it really was honest with itself, it doesn't want you to die and it doesn't want you to get well. it just wants you to keep coming back for your care of your chronic disease. >> most of this huge effort of the health care industry is devoted to intervention in established disease, and the ...