The Health Care Crisis, Part I

Dr. Hui (physician and economist), explains the health care crisis in the United States to Pinky (a cartoon character cat) in a nice 15 1/2 minute video. The basic ingredients of the crisis are high and rapidly increasing costs, and many uninsured people. There is an in-depth discussion of managed care organizations (like HMOs, PPOs, etc.) and how and why these have failed to control costs. The universal health care solution is only brought up at the end, as the video ends with the fundamental question: Do people living in an advanced society have a basic right to health care? This question has been discussed previously on this blog. There is no Part II to this video up yet, I checked.