Time Magazine's cover story about medical bills is making me sick. The writer calls it a seller's market. A gold rush. And we, the consumers, are on the losing side. With no end in sight.
ObamaCare will help a little by widening the access to insurance so a trip to the hospital shouldn't wipe out a family's savings and worse. But it doesn't really address The Medical Bill. $18 charges for a blood sugar test that really costs 55 cents. $2 for a Tylenol, which would cost more like 2 cents. These are but 2 examples in a hospital bill that can run more than 300 pages long!!!
How about $21,000 to be told you have heartburn? That's what one man got billed after his trip to the emergency room.
Where is the shame?
http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/
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