well out of ctrol irs out of control medical costs to. health care heren the u.s. carrying a heftierrice. anywhere else in the world, even for common and routine procedures or especially for common and routine procedures. joinin me now, director of the new york rdiac cente thank you r coming back. so good to see y. i was blown away by how fferent the costs are year compared to other developed countries. let me ge folks one example. the colonoscopy, the average u.s.rice rightow, about $1,100. offering half that price, and you can walk through a myriad of different kinds of procedures, stainings, surgery. what you find over and over again is the u.s. is more expensive. what do you say? >> more expensive the typ of system we have. the fee-for-service sense of. singapore and israel, a single payer system for some of the medicare and medicaid type patients thateople can buy supplement to get priva insurance. the cos of the fee-for-service system, there is an incentive to do more types o tting, to do more. gerri: definitely. more extensive testing. i understand that ther