Are Patients The Problem?

Amid soaring health-care costs, many patients demand expensive tests and fancy drugs. Choices made by patient and doctor influence the cost of care for everyone. What is the patient's proper role in remaking the nation's health care system?

We hear from Marge Ginsburg, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Decisions, Anthony Lo Sasso, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dr. Pauline Chen, who writes the "Doctor and Patient" column for The New York Times.