Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

This is an artical once published in a TIME special report.

A copy can be found here: http://livingwithmcl.com/BitterPill.pdf

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us was written by Steven Brill and provides a sobering, disturbing, and slightly depressing view of our medical billing system in the USA as well as large amounts of evidence from individual cases as well as some more generalized figures.

I would not say this articles was particularly politically aligned, in fact it commends political parties for what they do write while at the same time chastising that which is done wrong.

The parties the article is least kind to are non-profit hospitals and medical industry lobbyists, while also doing its best to leave medical device providers and pharmaceutical companies in an unflattering light.

This article seeks to explain why health care costs so much in the USA and providing a contrast of showing where costs are reasonable and how even then there are flaws.

I would strongly encourage people to read the 28 page article.