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>> Welcome back to Houston
newsmakers and drawn by doctor
Tim Garson the director of
health policy Institute, the
Texas Medical Center among as
many previous positions, dean
of the university’s genius
School
School of Medicine. Chief pediatric
cardiology at Texas Children’s
Hospital many other lofty
impressive positions and
medical world that would take
about 10 minutes to talk about
so we want to honor that We’ll
talk about as a premise of this
book
book that you have which is entitle
exposing the 20 medical myths.
What did you write this point.
Several years. >> And I happened to notice in
the 2008 election.
All 3 of
All 3 of the candidate, it’s said if
they could just make preventive
care work for everybody.
They could pay for the
uninsured.
uninsured. ♪
I hand him or something’s going green public health and I
said no that and work that way.
And so I started to look into a and that became one of the
myths.
myths. Preventive care doesn’t save
money mail, 43 terms if I can
say it quickly preventive care
is really important. So not
that it’s ban and it’s the
right thing to do.
But if you think about it
you’ll get this woman, some
preventive care surely 6.
If you are a key company and
your employees
your employees have flourished, it saves money
for the employer got
♪
♪ that, but there is a marvelous
lead on paper.
A long
A long ♪
♪ time ago where the government
where the CBO looked at.
What would happen if they
increased the price of
cigarettes $0.50 came $0.50 a
pack what
pack what ♪
♪ would happen. 30 years later.
So they go through all the
stuff and you’ll get
cigarette price goes
♪
♪ up smokers go down they live
longer they’re more expensive.
So that money is not they are to pay for the
uninsured and that became one
of
of the myths.
the myths. >> And one of the things that
happen is always becomes a
political football when people
talk about different things was
repeal
repeal and replace that which is a
phrase coined by Republicans as
they did about about obamacare
which Mister
which Mister obama embraced. But then we
have now in the debates now the
Democratic candidates are
debating and we have the
conversation by Medicare for
all yes and something senator
Elizabeth Warren kids will want
to do some of her opponents say
well she’s not really
forthcoming with how much is
going to cost. You hear that
sort of thing what about medic
care for all people know about
if they can evaluate with his a
pro or con. So in
the book.
the book. >> 2 chapters to deal with
that, so you can go take a look
there’s your very own copy.
Medicare for all if you took a
step back and said health care
for everybody. Terrific right if you get it
if you just stop there and I
think what happened with
Medicare for all is that people
have slipped into using.
Without necessarily walking
through
through ♪
♪ how much it costs and what that
means for example.
One of the candidates, us and
if we.
if we. Have Medicare
Have Medicare ♪
♪ for all everybody gets
everything they want.
Every
Every ♪
♪ doctor and the price is less.
And then that particular
candidate says and. That’s true
in every
in every other country. The world will
know every other country in the
world has a private every
other country, including
Canada, people’s own Canada has
a private system and in fact a
3rd of Canadian cost or in the private system because they
don’t cover
don’t cover prescription drugs and the
public’s so so everybody has a
has a private system and so one
of the things we talk about in
the book.
the book. Maybe call this a single safety
net. Where
net. Where everybody had us health care
just like public school Kay and
then you
then you ♪
♪ can buy. In 2 quotes private
school. And
school. And if you want to buy private
school and have commercial
insurance you
insurance you can do.
can do. >> It was right now for us
everybody is running in the
primary they want to get those
folks who are really rabid
either left or right.
>> To say yeah Medicare fraud
is what I want they need to
read a book and get more
details out
details out of that. One other meth in your
United States health care is
the best in the world, you say
that is a meth say it ain’t
so diet.
so diet. >> Let’s start with what’s
health care and what health OK
so first thing.
Got to figure out how are you
going to find well it turns out
you
you can define. us life expectancy
and infant mortality that
works right. So life expectancy
were about 15 from them and
infant mortality we’re about
50th in the world, so that’s
called a 5050 and so
with respect to health care not
so good it,
even then really really
interesting and we’ve
referenced pretty much
everything in this book but it
told the end if you want to
♪
♪ read this. The.
There’s a paper that talks
♪
♪ about well what goes into life
expectancy. 40% is what we do
to ourselves.
to ourselves. So 40% of life expectancy is
smoking drinking it actually
it. Murders. I was blown away.
Not a very good way to put it by the fact that in the US
a teenager
a teenager has an 85 times the chance of
being
being shot dead. In the US that in
the event in Britain 85 times
and so the answer is we sort of
think of life expectancy is
heart attacks or left no
40 per so is the stuff we do to
yourself sick. >> Clear to me to do that is
just so much more to goes
into hotels care and caring
about ourselves and just going
to the doctor I’m Lynn put this
up so we can get a shot of this
but over the 2 weeks or
so more people to go ahead pick
this up what do you want people
to get out this when you Stacey
this in the bookstore they can
get
get his upper get online would have
would he want them to take away
from this show.
>> What we would love is simply
they get educated simply they
get it. And so when somebody
would say Medicare for all they
would get what
that means somebody which a
public option they get what
that means the idea that
we cost the US cost
twice as much as the average
price in any
other country. Why is that and
so why is that important to the
general public because we waste chapter 3 we waste a trillion
dollars a year in medical care,
trillion dollars.
trillion dollars. One 3rd of everything we spend
we waste well and
so what can
♪
♪ happen is to figure out how to
address that waste.
And the public not a surprise
some of people go the e r when
they don’t need to be in the e
r. Those kinds of things they
can act surely help reduce the
price of
price of health care which we have to
weather it Medicare for all or
public option or more obamacare
we got to reduce the price to
help with this book is going to
help in that process think of
those of you who know about me
about this program we want to
try to get you in a position
where you can be better
informed about the decisions
you make.
you make. >> This is going to help doing
that Doc, thank you so much
Brianna thanks 20 mist of 20