The United States has the most expensive healthcare in the world. Americans spend at least two-and-a-half times more per person than any other developed country on healthcare. But what are we getting in return for all that money?

Produced by Alex Gibney, director of Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and Oscar-nominated, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE takes a sometimes moving, sometimes provocative look at the American medical marketplace and explores why, when it comes to healthcare, money can’t buy you everything.

From urban emergency rooms to rural health clinics and well-heeled suburban hospitals, MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE invites viewers to discover how the chase for profits doesn’t just drive the price of care beyond the reach of those with no insurance – it threatens the health of well-insured Americans, too.

MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE goes behind the scenes to explore a medical marketplace where economic rules are turned inside out and high prices will never be tamed by falling sales. What price would you pay for good health? Meanwhile, the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service system reward doctors who do more, not less, and ignore the risk to the patient.

Inspired by the book, “Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Why Health Care Costs So Much,” by Maggie Mahar, MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE follows the money trail beyond familiar problems, such as insurance company denials, to press for answers to some fundamental but little-known questions plaguing American healthcare. Questions such as, why are we wasting a third of the $2 trillion dollars we spend yearly on ineffective, overpriced and often unproven drugs and devices? Why do hospitals battle to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, but 15 million patients are injured every year in American hospitals? And why is the relationship of trust between doctors and patients slowly being corroded?

MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE gives a voice to doctors and patients across the country, as well as major figures from health reform battles of the past and present, peeling back the layers of the complex and often confusing debate over improving the nation’s health, and, ultimately, revealing the economic might of a medical-industrial complex that stretches into the heart of the nation’s capital...