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surprise billing
July 27, 2021
Natalie Shure
We’ll Never Fix Hospitals’ Price Gouging If We Don’t Break Their Stranglehold on Congress
Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them.
December 22, 2020
Natalie Shure
Congress Doesn’t Care About Your Surprise Ambulance Bill
Dying? Hail an Uber, because lawmakers exempted ambulances from their medical-bill reforms—much to private equity’s delight.
July 23, 2020
Libby Watson
Congress’s Steadfast and Stupefying Refusal to End Surprise Billing
It seems clear that if voters want lawmakers to end this galling practice, they will have to first end some lawmakers’ careers.
December 17, 2019
Libby Watson
Congress to Misplace Its Health Care Priorities One Last Time in 2019
Lawmakers will punt on crucial consumer protections against shock-and-awe hospital bills, while further eroding the Affordable Care Act.
October 10, 2019
Libby Watson
The Grim Lottery of Surprise Medical Bill Stories
Journalists can occasionally help the victims of the health care industry's predations, but without major reform these abuses will continue.
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