Financial self-defense school, now in session: Make your own luck.
If you need medical care, it's like you've entered a casino, playing for your financial life, with the deck stacked against you. Lucky for us, we get insight — and tips the dealer WON'T tell you— from ace reporter Celia Llopis-Jepsen.
To start with, she got an executive from a health-care company to talk honestly — maybe more honestly than he realized — about how his company and others are playing the game, when they send patients bills for huge amounts.
Here's what else she found, when she investigated an $80,000 bill one man got: For many COVID patients, including the guy in her story, lots…
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