How would you feel if, after paying your airfare in advance and enjoying a safe trip to grandma’s for the holidays, you were hit three weeks later with a separate bill from the co-pilot? That’s the scenario concocted by financial analyst John R. Graham in a recent Forbes.com op-ed to illustrate the absurdity of what we go through with healthcare. Costs are worked out among insurers, providers and government. Patients often think they are at a hospital and under the care of a doctor that is “in network,” to use a common insurance |
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Jay Evensen is the Senior Editorial Columnist of the Deseret News. He has nearly 40 years experience as a reporter, editor and editorial writer in Oklahoma, New York City, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. He also has been an adjunct journalism professor at Brigham Young and Weber State universities. Archives
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