By Jan Greene This may be a foolish thing to do, but I'm going to publicly discuss my lower back problems. This is dangerous because I buy my health insurance on the individual market, which means that anything that places me in a category of undesirable risk could make me uninsurable in the future....
By Jan Greene Tom McGrath, a writer for Philadelphia magazine, took the time to try to figure out why the bill for his young daughter's appendectomy was $29,000. What he found out was how arbitrary medical billing can be, that hospital bills are highly fictional accounts of what a hospital may actually want, need...
By Jan Greene I had the opportunity to meet a family that's been through hell and back, but managed to remain smart and informed consumers of healthcare even as their toddler son endured a long and difficult fight with liver cancer. The Clarks, Richard and Diane, realized their son Dillon was sick during a...