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. >> take lasik eye surgery, for example.was introduced, prices have dropped considerably, despite all of the expensive equipment and well-trained specialists. lasik doctors actually compete for your business, with ads that tell you about their safety record and prices. >> ask a very simple question of your viewers. how many of them know the safest hospital in their neighborhood? why not? why is there nobody with a billboard saying, don't go to downtown, go to uptown, downtown will kill you? we've been through 45 years of turning over our power to insurers, to medicare, and medicaid. look at the result. >> goldhill's solution -- insurance should only cover catastrophic events, serious illnesses, while routine care like doctors' appointments should be paid for from a health savings account that each person controls. the poor would get government subsidies for their accounts. >> we have to care about the costs because what we're doing in medicine is destroying the american dream. >> dr. atul gawande is a surgeon, a staff writer
. >> take lasik eye surgery, for example.was introduced, prices have dropped considerably, despite all of the expensive equipment and well-trained specialists. lasik doctors actually compete for your business, with ads that tell you about their safety record and prices. >> ask a very simple question of your viewers. how many of them know the safest hospital in their neighborhood? why not? why is there nobody with a billboard saying, don't go to downtown, go to uptown, downtown will...
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. >> lasik eye surgery, for example.rocedure was introduced, prices have dropped considerably. just by the expensive equipment and well-trained specialists. lasik doctors compete for your business with ads that tell but their safety record and prices. >> ask a simple question of your viewers. how many of them know the safest hospital in their neighborhood? why not? why is there nobody with a billboard saying don't go to downtown, go to uptown. downtown will kill you. we have been through 45 years of turning over power to insurers to medicare and medicaid. look at the result. >> the solution, insurance should only cover catastrophic effects and serious illnesses and routine care like doctor's appointments should be paid for from a savings account that everyone controls. the poor would get subsidies. >> we have to care about the cost. we are destroying the american dream. >> this is a surgeon, a staff writer for the new yorker and the author of several best-selling books on medicine. he agrees that the market in health car
. >> lasik eye surgery, for example.rocedure was introduced, prices have dropped considerably. just by the expensive equipment and well-trained specialists. lasik doctors compete for your business with ads that tell but their safety record and prices. >> ask a simple question of your viewers. how many of them know the safest hospital in their neighborhood? why not? why is there nobody with a billboard saying don't go to downtown, go to uptown. downtown will kill you. we have been...
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lasik predates nasa, but it was expensive and didn't always work. the algorithms and laser guidance that enabled the space shuttle to dock with the space station accurately without bumping and having to try it four times, that got ported to lasik. how many of you had lasik surgery? wow, only one person in the whole place? [laughter] she's not wearing glasses. and, you know, of course, tang predates nasa, but it became a beverage of choice for them to this day, i know not why. [laughter] the point is, you know, if you're into spinoffs, every year, every couple of years, nasa has a spinoff book. each product that was patented because of space motivation that became a product is described here in every one of these volumes. this is 2009. i think there's been some since then. it's beautifully composed and written. there's interesting ones. there's a device that enables deaf people to here and low tech solutions like groved pavement. see turns on highways with groves? nasa figured out that's a good thing to do. [laughter] why didn't anybody else think ab
lasik predates nasa, but it was expensive and didn't always work. the algorithms and laser guidance that enabled the space shuttle to dock with the space station accurately without bumping and having to try it four times, that got ported to lasik. how many of you had lasik surgery? wow, only one person in the whole place? [laughter] she's not wearing glasses. and, you know, of course, tang predates nasa, but it became a beverage of choice for them to this day, i know not why. [laughter] the...
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the very center of moscow the sheik and stylish clinic presents the best services in the field of lasik ontology plastic and aesthetic surgery interesting to note bush's stance in the top ten countries with the highest level of plastic surgery. operations there's a new buzz in the beauty industry here too for anyone who may be worried about external signs of aging the clinic here office a new remedy using stem cell which even nation generative cells and fats are injected into patients faces which in turn produces the turbo charging lifting effect the therapy is they still the idea that premature aging is a treatable fish and sea disease many experts say is the future of surgery will silicone and scalpels soon be a thing of the past time will tell ast thirty three years old i don't think i need time yet instead i'm here to have a look at some of the conventional non-surgical treatments on offer. techniques hydrotherapy injections fillers it's all of that here at p.c. plaza. very comfy tight off and this is where arena turns me into brad. this procedure is aimed only at the upper layers o
the very center of moscow the sheik and stylish clinic presents the best services in the field of lasik ontology plastic and aesthetic surgery interesting to note bush's stance in the top ten countries with the highest level of plastic surgery. operations there's a new buzz in the beauty industry here too for anyone who may be worried about external signs of aging the clinic here office a new remedy using stem cell which even nation generative cells and fats are injected into patients faces...
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another one, lasik surgery. nasa made it affordable and accurate. affordable and accurate. that is important when your eyeballs are concerned and that came about from the docking mechanism between the space shuttle itself and the space station. accurate, affordable, with high precision. the laser guidance system made these lineup was applied to the surgery. that is why people today have accurate site with inexpensive fees, credit nasa. the grooves on pavement on turns, that was nasa. no one thought to do that before nasa thought to do it. with this landing of the space shuttle on a long runway. the space shuttle does not -- it can reverse its engines so it coast to a stop. you do not want it sliding down the runway. the other thing, the intracochlear device. it links to the nerves inside your ear, developed by nasa. the water filtering systems, developed by nasa. there is no spigot you can tap that connects to the reservoir in space. you have to recycle. i guess you could try to get someone to invent a water filtering device on the open market. but the true motivation comes
another one, lasik surgery. nasa made it affordable and accurate. affordable and accurate. that is important when your eyeballs are concerned and that came about from the docking mechanism between the space shuttle itself and the space station. accurate, affordable, with high precision. the laser guidance system made these lineup was applied to the surgery. that is why people today have accurate site with inexpensive fees, credit nasa. the grooves on pavement on turns, that was nasa. no one...