How are US hospital costs determined?

How are US hospital costs determined?

Guest:

Elisabeth Rosenthal @nytrosenthal‎
New York Times correspondent.

Read Rosenthal's latest New York Times article on health care costs, "As Hospital Prices Soar, a Stitch Tops $500."

What are the costs of Obamacare? 

Guest:

James Robinson 
Leonard D. Schaeffer Endowed Chair in Health Economics and Policy Director at the Berkeley Center for Health Technology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells Al Jazeera: "Sanctions have utterly failed"  

Nader Hashemi, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, will react to Zarif's comments.

Read more about Mohammad Javad Zarif's interview on "Talk to Al Jazeera."

How will North Korea be affected by Kim Jong Un reportedly dismissing his uncle?

Guest:

Gordon Chang @GordonGChang 
Author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World" and a Forbes.com contributor.

Read more on Kim Jong Un's reported dismissal of Jang Song Thaek, via Al Jazeera America. 

Are energy drinks dangerous? 

Guest:

Dr. Jonas Dorner
Radiology resident at the University of Bonn in Germany. Dorner studied how energy drinks affect heart contraction rates.

Read more about Dorner's study, via The Los Angeles Times.

Newlyweds talk about their "Life on Bitcoin"

Guests:

Austin Craig @LifeOnBitcoin 
Co-creator of the documentary "Life on Bitcoin" and LifeOnBitcoin.com.

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