An analysis of why health care costs are so high. Why should one generic Tylenol pill cost a $1.50 a pill?
What are the reasons, good or bad, that cancer means a half-million- or
million-dollar tab? Why should a trip to the emergency room for chest
pains that turn out to be indigestion bring a bill that can exceed the
cost of a semester of college? What makes a single dose of even the most
wonderful wonder drug cost thousands of dollars? Why does simple lab
work done during a few days in a hospital cost more than a car? And what
is so different about the medical ecosystem that causes technology
advances to drive bills up instead of down?
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