How did medicine transform from a charitable profession to one that has put one in five Americans into collections for medical debt? How did we get to the point where hospitals are scientifically advanced bastions of academic genius, but can’t even tell you what an operation will cost? How did the noble profession of healing allow billing practices to become so predatory that some hospitals sue and garnish the wages of half of the people in the town they serve? How did we get to this point where American businesses have lost their competitiveness overseas because of health care costs? How did
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