World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-11-24

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-11-24
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[0:00] [Music]

[0:00] A little breezy over there. 47, maybe no

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[0:13] [Music]

[0:18] >> On World News Tonight this Wednesday,

[0:19] quality healthcare and the profit

[0:21] motive, they do not always go together.

[0:23] More people than ever traveling by plane

[0:25] this Thanksgiving. congestion that may

[0:28] continue for years. Our closer look at

[0:31] advertising trying to get consumers to

[0:33] buy them to care. And does anyone care

[0:37] where the sun comes up first in the year

[0:39] 2000? Some people care very much.

[0:49] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:52] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:55] Peter Jennings.

[0:56] >> Good evening. And we're going to begin

[0:57] tonight with a story that runs somewhat

[0:58] contrary to the conventional wisdom that

[1:00] you get what you pay for. The New

[1:02] England Journal of Medicine is about to

[1:04] publish a study which says that people

[1:06] who require kidney dialysis have a

[1:08] greater chance of dying if they're

[1:10] treated at a hospital or a clinic that's

[1:12] in business to make money. Which

[1:14] obviously raises the broader question of

[1:16] whether this is a more general problem.

[1:18] Here's ABC's Ned Potter.

[1:22] More than 200,000 patients get dialysis

[1:25] every year, increasingly at clinics run

[1:27] by corporations forprofit instead of

[1:30] nonprofit organizations or government.

[1:32] Doctors wondered if there would be a

[1:34] difference in patients care. And today's

[1:36] study says yes.

[1:38] >> We were particularly struck by the

[1:40] magnitude of the differences that we

[1:41] foun