Task: Explanation
Input (English): Paragraph: "The story deal with cost very early in the story: ""You have one kind of operation that could cost $20,000 and another that could cost $80,000 and there’s not good evidence the expensive one is being used appropriately in the majority of cases""… Add to that the expense for patients whose problems after surgery send them back to the hospital or to a nursing home and ""that’s not a trivial amount of money"" for Medicare… The cost to Medicare, just for the hospital charges for the three types of back surgery reviewed is about $1.65 billion a year, according to the researchers. The story clearly stated, ""The study didn’t address how successful the various types of surgeries were at relieving pain."" Good job using absolute risk data: Nice job emphasizing what’s known and what’s not known. Excerpts:" Claim: Study: Riskier surgeries for back pain raise costs
Output (English): Thorough report, including a glance at how marketing and financial conflict of interest may have influenced the rise in costly, complex surgeries. The story ends with an important quote from a spine surgeon:  "Too much fusion surgery is done in this country and often for inappropriate reasons" and patients "should not hesitate to get a second opinion."