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A Year in Emergency Room Bills
From cities to remote country towns, emergency medical bills usually come as a big surprise for patients. Sarah Kliff, Vox senior policy correspondent covering healthcare and host of The Impact podcast, talks about what she found during a year-long investigation into emergency room bills -- why the charges are so inconsistent and expensive.
@sarahkliff of @voxdotcom gives example of Neosporin costing $1 in Tennessee ER and 76 in Seattle.
Says it happens when there's no regulation around healthcare pricing. The US is unique in the industrialized world in not having a gov agency that treats healthcare like a utility.