Health $care: How much will you pay for health care?

Welcome to the American health care system. If you’re looking to sail off on a Kafkaesque journey, you’ve come to the right place.

 I am sitting in the radiology department reception area at Mt. Sinai Hospital waiting for my name to be called. Two weeks ago, my doctor ordered a CT scan to explore some back pain she assumed would turn out to be an ovarian cyst or a stress fracture. Instead, it turned up….

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