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456. How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare

Freakonomics Radio

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Health Benefits - What Is It All About?

Hospitals often resorted to garnishing the wages of patients who couldn't pay their bills. Average amount garnished was more than twenty seven hundred dollars. The most common employers of these patients were walmark, wells, fargo, amazon and lows. Larry van horn: How do we get from a system where hospitals used to take of people for free to one where they are docking the pay checks of people with jobs who can't afford to pay?...

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