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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, but health care, the health of a nation.

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 high tech and expensive to be powerful. they have a hard time believing the simple choices we make in our lives each day can make such a powerful difference. >> we're in the grip of a very big industry, and it doesn't want to stop...

Now to our country's health care crisis. it's no secret the system is broken. we pay more in health care costs than any country in the world, $2.7 trillion in 2011. we get shockingly little for our money. people die earlier. "escape fire" is a new documentary airing sunday at 8:00. it looks at these problems in a new light. >> we have had enough! >> what do we 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. to me, that's not the only issue. the present system doesn't work a...